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Marco Fainello (Verona, 12 settembre 1964) is an italian engineer.

Early Life

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Fainello e Schumacher festeggiano dopo la vittoria del campionato

Marco Fainello graduated in Mechanical Engineering at Polytechnic University of Milan with a thesis on the dynamics of the tires.

Career

After the graduation, from 1990 to 1994 he was at the Fiat Research Centre. During this time he has been involved in projects that concerned vehicle dynamics: his first job was to take care of a model of Ferrari 348. Furthermore, he started a collaboration with Professor Hans B. Pacejka, expert on dynamics of vehicles and tires. Together they will reach important goals in the study of the dynamic of the tires and after this collaboration Fainello will be known also with the nickname "the rubber man".[1]

He has also carried on some external projects: he was guest docent for the Vehicle Dynamics course at Dallara Automobili and consultant for the Alfa DTM team. In the 1994 the Alfa DTM team with a Alfa Romeo 155 V6 TI and the driver Nicola Larini on board will make history at the Nürburgring by winning both races and bringing the Alfa Romeo to win again on the circuit for the first time since Tazio Nuvolari victory in 1935.

Formula 1 and Ferrari

In 1995 he joined the Scuderia Ferrari Formula 1. At first, Fainello has the role of "veicolista", the engineer in charge of the set-up on track. But after the first few years as veicolista of the drivers Jean Alesi and Michael Schumacher, in 1997 he became the responsible in chief of the vehicle dynamics and will maintain this role until 2004.

When he was in charge, the Ferrari collected 6 Formula One World Constructor's Championship and Michael Schumacher won the Formula One Drivers' Championship five times, from 2000 to 2004. These are the golden years of the Ferrari and the team of the Scuderia Ferrari was renamed "the Dream Team" by the press . The members of the Ferrari's "the Dream Team" were:

He worked closely with Bridgestone and its Technical Director Hirohide Hamashima until the 2007 to develope the tires used by Ferrari, obtaining significant results.

In 2004 Fainello was assigned to the development of the Ferrari simulator, a virtual system that can emulate all the car's functions for carrying out analysis without necessarily having to drive a real car.

Despite the other teams like McLaren and Red Bull Racing have initiated the use of simulators well in advance of the Ferrari, Fainello was able to recover the time lost realizing the first simulator Ferrari inside the Fiat Research Centre.

In the same year, as well as other members of the Dream Team Ferrari, he was appointed Cavaliere al merito della Repubblica Italiana by the President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.

In the year 2007 and 2008, even if many members of the Dream Team have already left the team, Ferrari won 2 Formula One World Constructor's Championship and 1 Formula One Drivers' Championship.

In 2009, as Performance Development Director, he completed the construction of the first Ferrari simulator in the Maranello headquarter.[2].

Una Ferrari FXX K, dove Fainello era a capo del progetto[3]

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In 2012 he passed to the Road Car Department[4], as Head of Performance Development for the road cars and responsible of the project of the new driving simulator. In this role he developed the Side Slip Control (SSC)[5], the flagship system of all new Ferrari road cars. In 2014 is the head of the development of the Ferrari FXX-K, the first Ferrari hybrid car based on a heat engine from 850 hp and an electric motor of 187 hp for a total of more than 1030 hp.[6]

In the same years he also worked in the development of the chassis of the Ferrari 458 GTE "Le Mans" and of the Ferrari 488 GT used in the GT WEC championship where Fainello was assigned in 2013 as Head of GT Track Car Development Ferrari .

In FIA World Endurance Championship he won 3 times the Constructors' World Cup and 2 times the Drivers Cup.

Honours

Pubblications

Note

  1. ^ Fainello, l'uomo di gomma
  2. ^ Ferrari: alla scoperta della F1 Virtuale con Marco Fainello
  3. ^ "Ferrari: FXX K, roba da 2,5 mln tasse escluse test compresi - Prove e Novità". ANSA.it. 2014-12-05. Retrieved 2016-12-12.
  4. ^ Ferrari: Fainello passa alla Gestione Industriale
  5. ^ L'algoritmo per la derapata perfetta
  6. ^ Incanta al debutto la Ferrari FXX K
  7. ^ Quirinale.it - Dettaglio decorato - Fainello Ing. Marco
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