The “desire to win” has suddenly overtaken the “desire to understand”, and this is already a step forward for Scuderia Ferrari. What emerged on the sidelines of the presentation of the Maranello team on February 26th is certainly a change of approach that bodes well, at least in ideas.
The Red team is projected into the upcoming season aware that it will have to do everything, literally throwing its heart over the obstacle, to erase the still fresh nightmare of the 2020 Formula 1 season. A difficult task, a rough road, for a team that realistically does not have great possibility to quickly climb the rankings.
Precisely for this reason the low profile shown by the protagonists in their statements, the balance shown, however stripped of any feeling of resignation, is even more appreciable. For the first time, Ferrari, especially in the words of team principal Mattia Binotto, seemed aware of its current status, but also of its objectives, its heritage and its greatness.
The hope, this time well founded, is that the time of “we must understand” and “data analysis ” is over, hesitant and ambiguous expressions that have contributed in the last year to worsen the image of a Cavallino that seemed lost and helpless in front of as events unfold.
That imprecise, vulnerable, slow Ferrari, overtaken by everyone left and right, and who then scratched its head because almost incredulous, left room for a team that – at least in the messages launched – no longer seems prey to terror of failure.
There is no fear in saying that the car will be considerably better, probably equipped with a real engine and not with one crippled for reasons no longer mysterious, there is no fear in declaring that the (realistic) goal is to at least get back into the fight for podium positions, and that certain errors will no longer be tolerated because the team – being Ferrari not only in name, but also in fact – must return to having a winning mentality.
In short, Ferrari promised us to be “badass”, bad, we hope also Garibaldian and reckless. In choices and performance on the track. No longer confused and stunned in the strategies, no longer the victim of an adverse fate, but mistress of her own destiny.
The feeling, at least for now, is that Mattia Binotto jas also had enough of analyzing the data and that he “understood”. He reorganized the team in a pyramid structure, entrusting each subordinate with great responsibilities. You feel the desire to react and amaze. And we are here, waiting for Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz on the podium, despite the predictions that Ferrari are behind Alpine or even AlphaTauri. Anyone who waits for a failure to say “I said so” could be disappointed.
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