Bahrain F1 test | Ferrari to use Barcelona engine amid attempts to improve reliability

Scuderia Ferrari is working on the test bench to bring the 066/7 power unit to a life of almost 6,000 kilometers. The Maranello team is engaged in hard work in search of the reliability that is still missing in order for the 2022 Formula 1 season to be completed with only three engines, given that the calendar includes 23 races and each power unit will in theory have to be used for seven GPs.

For the testing session in Bahrain that begins tomorrow, the Scuderia will bring the same engine that was used without problems in the three days of testing in Barcelona where it passed the 2,000 kilometers brilliantly.

The hot session in Sakhir will be very important to verify on the track, rather than on the bench, any weak points in view of next week’s debut in the new season, with the FIA homologated engines and which will have to remain frozen until the end of 2025.

Obviously, in Maranello they focused on performance with the courageous solutions introduced in the “Superfast” power unit by engineer Wolf Zimmermann, knowing full well that the regulation allows you to work on reliability side.

The tests that will begin tomorrow will have to give convincing answers, given that the three Spanish days of Montmelò were mainly used to verify the data and to correlate the data with simulation systems. Now the most important part begins and the cars will have to show their true potential, as the time to play hide and seek is over.

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Ferrari, in addition to a useful change to prevent porpoising, should not bring any big updates, instead trying to focus on the potential of the F1-75 car both in the single lap and in race simulations.

Mattia Binotto, team principal of the Maranello team, is perfectly aware of this: “In Barcelona, in the first test session, the idea was to collect data and try to understand the car, while in Bahrain we will be very close to the first race of the season and I think we will all have to get the most out of the cars with qualifying laps and race simulations. And we will have clearer ideas about the values on the field “.