RETURN TO DOMINANCE The 1998 season saw Ferrari take the penultimate step towards its re-ascendancy in Formula One racing.

In the years since its last Constructors’ Championship of 1979 and its last Drivers’ Championship of 1982, the Scuderia had at first struggled, then increasingly dedicated itself to re-establishing its onetime dominance in the sport.

Key to this pursuit, of course, was hiring back-to-back championship driver Michael Schumacher away from Benetton in 1996.

Schumacher would go on to take the Scuderia to unprecedented heights in the 2000s with a run of six consecutive winning seasons.

In Schumacher’s initial years with Ferrari, the car itself still required some development to contend with rivals such as Williams and McLaren.

Seeking to address these deficiencies, in 1997, Ferrari lured designer Rory Byrne out of retirement to replace the departed John Barnard.

Though Byrne initially worked to develop Barnard’s 1996 F310 into the F310B for the 1997 season, rule c...