Scuderia Ferrari has planned the 2022 Formula 1 season with precise timing. In Maranello they do not want to leave anything to chance in order to stay at the top of the two world championships, drivers and constructors, especially now that the margin over Max Verstappen’s Red Bull is narrowing after the Dutch driver’s last two victories in Imola and at the Miami International Autodrome.
The Italian side has decided to react and introduce the first important package of updates for the next round of the season, the Spanish Grand Prix. At the same time, Ferrari has booked the Monza track for tomorrow, 13 May, for a test that will take place behind closed doors from 9 to 13 with Charles Leclerc behind the wheel of the 2022 F1 challenger.
The F1-75 car will in fact be the protagonist of the second filming day of the championship (the first took place, as usual, in Barcelona on February 22, one day before the pre-season testing session began).
It is no coincidence that Ferrari chose the Monza circuit: the Maranello team needs to find a higher top speed on the straight to counter the Red Bull and the Italian “temple of speed” is the ideal venue to check whether the work done by the engineers led by Enrico Cardile will give the desired result.
The Maranello team, of course, will collect the data it needs by alternating this activity with the promotional work that will be carried out to meet commercial needs: 100 km is the distance authorized by the FIA for the filming day and the F1-75 will have to run with Pirelli demo tires, which have nothing to do with those used on race weekends.
Monza was also used for filming day in 2019. On 8 August, the Monegasque driver was called behind the wheel of the SF90 in a test that preceded Charles’ first two Formula 1 victories, namely at Spa-Francorchamps in the Belgian Grand Prix and at the Monza circuit in the Italian Grand Prix.
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