Scuderia Ferrari has completed the first assessments after the Barcelona testing session where the F1-75 car made its track debut in direct comparison with rivals. The red team which was seen in Spain will not be very different from the one that will take to the track next week in Sakhir for the second pre-season testing session that will precede the first round of the 2022 Formula 1 championship, the Bahrain Grand Prix.
While Mercedes, and apparently Red Bull too, will show off deeply revised single-seaters, the Italian side will work on the development of the F1-75 that performed well in Montmelò.
In particular, the Brackley team seems ready to bring a particularly different W13 in the rear area, repeating a strategy that had already given great results in 2019, when only one week later they managed to field two totally different W10s (the first approved at the end of November, while the second brought all the innovations resulting from the development work).
Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc have expressed positive opinions on the three days of testing in Barcelona showing an interesting potential of F1-75, although the Maranello team has not looked for performance so far, as indeed the most famous rivals, aiming at the correlation of the data between the track, wind tunnel and simulator.
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And by weighing the numbers available it would have emerged that the F1-75 designed by Enrico Cardile and David Sanchez would be the car that has grown the most in comparison with the values which could be seen on track last year.
Even if no one in the Maranello team wanted to find out the true pace of the car with real performance evaluations in Barcelona, based on what has been understood in Spain, there is a bit of optimism in the Racing Department because the difference from the top would be estimated at three or four tenths. A value that should allow Scuderia Ferrari to fight for the top every time the ideal conditions are created, placing the Italian side in the top three.
Mattia Binotto, team principal of Ferrari, is perfectly aware of the greater potential that Mercedes and Red Bull will be able to express in Bahrain, but is equally aware that the F1-75 will can constantly improve in terms of speed and performance after having showed solid reliability.”
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