Scuderia Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto admitted that the Maranello team cannot address its poor performance by bringing back parts from the car it raced last year. The Italian side endured a very disappointing weekend at Spa-Francorchamps, where last season Scuderia Ferrari won with Charles Leclerc. Now the SF-1000 car lapped slower than its predecessor managed last year and Ferrari failed to qualify or finish inside the top 10.
Mattia Binotto said the Maranello team’s poor pace was due both to a lack of power and poor aerodynamic efficiency. “Spa is a circuit where power is important as well as aerodynamic efficiency,” he added. “The car we developed this season is certainly more draggy.”
Using parts from last year’s car is not an option, according to Mattia Binotto. “The car is quite different,” he said. “The car itself it’s not a plug-and-play it’s not something that you take from one and you put on the other so that’s not possible.”- the Ferrari boss explained after the Belgian Grand Prix
Ferrari were beaten by their engine customer Alfa Romeo in the race, which Binotto said indicates there is a further factor behind the team’s struggles this weekend they haven’t uncovered yet. Power and aero efficiency is the first part,” he said. “But that’s not sufficient to explain our performance of this weekend because anyway I don’t think that the pattern with our customer teams is where we are expecting to be. So there is something more which we are looking at which at the moment we do not [understand].”- he concluded.
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