Scuderia Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto explained why the team supported F1’s latest unsuccessful attempt to introduce reverse-grid qualifying races. Speaking to RaceFans in an exclusive interview, Mattia Binotto said Ferrari took a “positive” view of the proposal and the disruption to the 2020 F1 season offered a good opportunity to experiment with the format change.
“We believe that 2020 will be a difficult season anyhow,” Binotto explained. “It’s a season that should have started in Australia, didn’t start in Australia, we start only in July. [There are] less races, some races on the same circuit: Austria-Austria, UK-UK. I think that we need still to try to attract our fans. We need still to make sure that for the future of the F1 we are creating the best show. And I think that [having] the sprint race only on the second race weekend on the same circuit would have been a solution. We can even consider that 2020 would have been the right test platform eventually for an alternative solution for the future.” – he explained.
At the same time, the Ferrari boss talked about the expected performance on track, once the 2020 Formula 1 season will start at the beginning of July, when the first two events in Austria are schduled: “It will be a difficult start for us. The car will be the same that we had in the testing sessions and we brought to Australia, because after that, there was the closure of the factories. The winter testing sessions have not been satisfying for us.” – Mattia Binotto concluded.
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