Ferrari on Friday presented the race car that Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc will drive in this year's Formula 1 season, the SF-26.
    The new car has splash of white around the cockpit, surrounded by the Italian glamour team's traditional red colour scheme, in a livery that harks back to that of the 312 T driven by Niki Lauda in 1975.
    It is probably no coincidence.
    Ferrari are hoping to end a title drought stretching back to Kimi Raikkonen's championship win 19 years ago and may be looking for inspiration from 1975, when Lauda and the 312 T ended a long spell of disappointment by giving the team their first drivers' and constructors' championship wins in 11 years.
    The car is also shorter, narrower and lighter than its predecessor in changes linked to a new set of technical regulations that come into effect this season.
    Ferrari President John Elkann and hundreds of fans were at the Fiorano track near Ferrari's Maranello headquarters to see the SF-26 make its debut, with seven-time world champion Hamilton the first to get behind the wheel.

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