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that
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used to compete in the 2015 Formula One season. The chassis was designed by
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, Simone Resta and Dirk de Beer, with Mattia Binotto leading the
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design. It was driven by
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and
Kimi Räikkönen Kimi-Matias Räikkönen (; born 17 October 1979), nicknamed "the Iceman", is a Finnish racing driver who competed in Formula One between 2001 and 2021 for Sauber, McLaren, Ferrari, Lotus, and Alfa Romeo. Räikkönen won the 2007 Formula One ...
. The SF15-T was launched on 30 January 2015.


Background


Naming

The car was named SF15-T by adding the letter "S" before the "F", forming Scuderia Ferrari's initials and retaining the year of competition as well the letter "T" for turbocharged. Carrying over his tradition from
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and
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, Vettel named his SF15-T "Eva".


Season summary

Team principal
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had set the team a target of winning 2 races in the 2015 season. Vettel won the after capitalising on an early safety car. Räikkönen came home in fourth place after suffering a puncture following contact with another car in the early stages of the race. In
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, Räikkönen had his best showing yet coming home in 2nd place. He capitalised on Vettel's troubles and
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's brake by wire issues. A second win was achieved in
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, when Vettel overtook the two Mercedes cars at the start and led for the majority of the race. Vettel took his first pole for Ferrari and the team's first for three years – since the
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 – in
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, ending the dominance of qualifying for Mercedes, since the dawn of the new Formula One turbo era. He then led the entire race, to take his and the team's third victory of the season with Räikkönen finishing third to record the team's first double podium finish for two years. Ferrari finished the season 2nd in the Constructors' table with 428 points, nearly doubling their point total from the previous year. They proved to be the only true challenger to the dominant Mercedes team, as they were the only other team to win races. One minor consolation in the year was winning the inaugural DHL Fastest Pit Stop Award for completing the fastest pitstop in the most races during the season.


Livery

This was the final year for Haas sponsorship before they would eventually become their own F1 team the following season. The team paid tribute to
Jules Bianchi Jules Lucien André Bianchi (; 3 August 1989 – 17 July 2015) was a French racing driver, who competed in Formula One from to . Born and raised in Nice, Bianchi was the grandson of endurance racing driver Mauro Bianchi and the great-nephew ...
at the
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with carrying a message "Jules nei nostri cuori" ("Jules in our hearts") on the headrest. At the
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, Ferrari celebrated their 900th Grand Prix and their cars carried a logo celebrating the achievement on their upper front of the nose cone.


Complete Formula One results

( key) (results in bold indicate pole position; results in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) Driver failed to finish the race, but was classified as they had completed greater than 90% of the race distance.


Other

The Ferrari SF15-T has been featured in the racing simulations '' F1 2015'' and ''
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''.


References

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