Charles Leclerc finally ended his win drought last weekend at the British Grand Prix, returning Ferrari to the top step at Silverstone once again.
The British venue has been something of a happy hunting ground over the decades for the Italian manufacturer, with Leclerc's victory the 16th time the Scuderia has come out on top at the former airfield.
While the inaugural Formula 1 World Championship Grand Prix was held at Silverstone in 1950, it took until over a year later for Ferrari to register their first win in the sport.
Having taken pole position in his Ferrari 375, Jose Froilan Gonzalez would do battle with the Alfa Romeos of Juan Manuel Fangio and reigning World Champion Giuseppe Farina during the 90-lap race.
But with the Ferrari more fuel efficient and requiring one less pit stop than its Alfa Romeo opposition, Gonzalez took his, and Ferrari's, first F1 victory, 51 seconds clear of Argentinian compatriot Fangio.
The 1952 season began a golden period for Ferrari and Alberto Ascari, as the Italian combination would dominate F1 over the next two years with the team's 500 machine.
Entering the 1952 British Grand Prix with two wins already to his name, Ascari lined up second between team mates Farina and Piero Taruffi for the fifth round of the season.
Ascari took the lead at the start and remained at the front of the field throughout the 85-lap race, beating Taruffi by more than a lap as Farina finished sixth after changing spark plugs during a pit stop.
Having claimed the 1952 title with six consecutive wins to his name, Ascari returned to the Northamptonshire venue as the driver to beat once again the following year.
That run of wins had extended into 1953 after winning three races at the start of the season, with his tally finally broken at the previous round in France (not including the Indianapolis 500, which Ascari did not enter).
But Ascari was back to winning ways at Silverstone, taking pole position and claiming a lights-to-flag victory in the 90-lap race, one-minute clear of Fangio.
A further win before the end of the season gave Ascari back-to-back titles, which remains the last time an Italian claimed the Drivers' crown – something Kimi Antonelli hopes to change this season.
With Ascari having moved to Lancia for the 1954 season, Gonzalez moved back to Ferrari after two seasons with Maserati, where he was joined by future World Champion Mike Hawthorn.
The pair lined up second and third on the grid for the British Grand Prix behind the Mercedes of Fangio, but as in 1951 Gonzalez would claim victory having led all 90 laps, finishing 70 seconds clear of Hawthorn.
The win was Gonzalez's second and final victory in F1, with Silverstone proving to be special for the 'Pampas Bull'.
The British Grand Prix returned to Silverstone in 1956 after a visit to Aintree the previous year, where Fangio had finished just behind Mercedes team mate Stirling Moss – the Briton's first of 16 Grand Prix wins.
With Mercedes pulling out of F1 at the end of that season due to the Le Mans 24 Hours disaster, Fangio moved to Ferrari and continued the Scuderia's impressive win record at Silverstone.
Starting second behind Moss's Maserati, Fangio was joined on the front row by two other Britons in the form of Hawthorn (BRM) and Ferrari team mate Peter Collins.
Hawthorn initially led as Fangio suffered a spin, but the Argentinian racer was helped in his recovery when the BRM driver retired due to a transmission problem, with Moss also pulling out due to a mechanical issue.
It left Fangio clear to win by more than a lap as he went on to claim his third consecutive title at the end of the year, his fourth in total, before he gained his fifth crown in 1957.
After another visit to Aintree in 1957, F1 returned to Silverstone in 1958 where the home crowd had high hopes for Moss in the British Vanwall, as well as the Ferraris of Hawthorn and Collins.
While Moss started from pole, Hawthorn and Collins started from fourth and sixth on the grid at the wheel of their Dino 246s but, sensationally, Collins led by the end of the first lap.
He remained at the head of the field throughout the 75-lap race, finishing 24 seconds clear of Hawthorn, who moved into second after Moss's retirement.
It was to be Collins's third and final F1 victory, as the 26-year-old lost his life in the next race at the Nordschleife, while Hawthorn claimed the title at the end of the season.
There was further success in British Grands Prix over the following three decades for Ferrari, but these came outside of Silverstone, with Wolfgang von Trips winning at Aintree (1961), and Niki Lauda and Carlos Reutemann taking victories at Brands Hatch (1976 and 1978).
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