It is the week before Australia hosts the F1 season opener in 2002. Most teams and drivers are sitting on a long-haul flight to Melbourne. Among them, Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher, clearly aware that the odds are in Ferrari and his favour for a hat-trick of wins. But no one could have predicted how crushing would be their victory!
Spring turns to summer and Michael goes on to clinch his 5th Drivers’ crown – equalling Juan Manuel Fangio’s record – his third in a row with the Scuderia, with six races still to go to the end of the season. After another two races, Ferrari would seal the Constructors’ Championship in Hungary.
19 years later, as the F1 baton is passed from father to son, Automobilist pays a tribute to the Scuderia Ferrari winning team of 2002 to celebrate the winning team and their hat-trick of success with Michael Schumacher. Through a series of four artworks – 1 Collector’s Edition and 3 Limited Editions – the story of Ferrari’s 2002 season, with Michael Schumacher at the wheel of an F2002.
FRENCH GRAND PRIX 2002: COLLECTOR’S EDITION
V – the Roman numeral for 5, also representing Michael Schumacher’s fifth career title which he clinched at the French Grand Prix in 2002. Never had the championship been decided so early and it meant Schumacher equalled Juan Manuel Fangio’s tally of five championship wins.
The moment and the Championship celebrated in this Collector’s Edition with hot-foil golden embossing.
Edition of 500, each poster uniquely numbered, priced at USD 121
GERMAN GRAND PRIX 2002: LIMITED EDITION
For a five-times world champion, it was a surprising statistic that Michael Schumacher had only won his home race at the Hockenheimring just once in 1995. In 2002, he put that right, routing the opposition to win as he pleased from pole position in his Ferrari F2002. At the French Grand Prix, the Drivers’ World Championship had already been sealed but this win on home-ground but much-needed and simply the icing on the cake.
A Limited Edition poster with the F2002 sitting proudly amidst the German-flag inspired design.
Edition of 1000, each poster uniquely numbered, priced at USD 55
HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX 2002: LIMITED EDITION
Two Grands Prix after Michael Schumacher had clinched the 2002 Formula 1 Drivers’ World Championship, it was now time for Ferrari to do the same in the Constructors’ Category. Hungaroring proved to be the hallowed grounds for the Italian team’s 12th Constructors’ crown, its fourth in a row. While Michael Schumacher only managed a second place finish, his teammate took top honours and the podium 1-2 by the ‘Men in Red’ proving to be enough points for Ferrari to take an unassailable lead.
Edition of 1000, each poster uniquely numbered, priced at USD 55
JAPANESE GRAND PRIX 2002: LIMITED EDITION
The land of the rising Sun had become accustomed to title-deciding races and historic moments. 13 World Champions have been crowned over 34 Japanese GPs – Asia’s only host venue till Malaysia joined the calendar in 1999. It was where Ferrari rang in both Drivers’ and Constructor’s Titles celebrations in the year 2000 after a hunt lasting two decades and celebrations were as clamorous at the 2002 Japanese Grand Prix. Michael Schumacher took pole and when the lights went out, the German just took off, leaving the rest trailing in his wake.
Edition of 1000, each poster uniquely numbered, priced at USD 55
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