Red Bull demonstrated at Imola, by scoring a one-two in the GP of Emilia Romagna, that the RB18 has made a significant step forward in terms of pace and competitiveness. And Ferrari understood that it must also make progress in the battle of developments, although the Maranello team was penalized by a slightly over-charged aerodynamic configuration that made led to a gap in top speed.
The Maranello team in the first four GPs focused on understanding the car to challenge Adrian Newey’s car, as Red Bull constantly brought updates to the track that gave Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez a more reliable and efficient car in Imola. The advantage, therefore, that the F1-75 enjoyed in the first races has at least diminished and the Ferrari Racing Department are aware that the time has come to react. Mattia Binotto, the Ferrari team principal, immediately after the defeat in the Emilia Romagna, spoke only of minor updates to adapt the F1-75 car to the Miami circuit with a configuration based on more downforce for the rear wing.
The long straights of the American circuit which will make its debut next week will force the teams to line up with a more efficient aerodynamic setup, in search of the maximum speed in the long straight of a couple of kilometers which characterizes Miami.
“Since Miami is a higher speed circuit than any we’ve seen so far, we will bring a rear wing designed for tracks that require efficiency. We know that Red Bull will also have a good low / medium aerodynamic package and, therefore, will be competitive. We will fight on a new track where it will be nice to compete” – the Ferrari boss said.
But the most important news that emerges in these days from the Racing Department is that the power unit 066/7 has reached the targets of maximum reliability, completing the seventh long run on the test bench without encountering serious reliability problems.
A sign that in the United, States Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz will have the full power that the unit designed by Wolf Zimmermann is able to express. If we add to all this that the new hybrid (MGU-K, battery and control unit) should also debut, it is easy to understand that Enrico Gualtieri’s men will aim to consolidate the supremacy of the power unit.
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And we would like to confirm that Carlos Sainz’s engine 1, replaced as a precaution at Imola when it was already mounted in the car, will be used again in Miami in free practice, becoming the rotation unit. In Maranello, after the setback on their home track, they have every intention of giving another positive sign to the 2022 Formula 1 season to cancel Imola as quickly as possible …
After the Miami Grand Prix, Formula 1 will return to Europe for the Spanish GP and the debut of the new aerodynamic package is expected thanks to which a first intervention should be seen to neutralize the porpoising, the annoying bouncing on the straight that forces the technicians to increase the height from the ground, losing aerodynamic load and, therefore, valuable lap time.
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