A resurgent Ferrari enjoyed a much more competitive 2021 season after finishing a lowly sixth the year before and challenged McLaren to third place, which the Woking team claimed in 2020.
A tight battle between McLaren and Ferrari ebbed and flowed for most of the season until the Scuderia surged clear in the final third of 2021 to secure third.
It proved an enjoyable next chapter in one of F1’s most traditional rivalries spanning several decades. Famous McLaren-Ferrari bouts include duels between James Hunt and Niki Lauda in the 1970s, Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost in 1990 and more recently battles between Michael Schumacher and Mika Hakkinen in the late 1990s and early 2000s, or Lewis Hamilton versus Felipe Massa in 2008.
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Ricciardo, who had a low-key first season of adaption with McLaren, enjoyed his team’s battle with the Maranello squad and thought it was “a cool story” for F1.
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