“I expect a big update for Red Bull at Silverstone” – the comment was made by Scuderia Ferrari team principal, Mattia Binotto immediately after the Canadian Grand Prix, as both team already started playing a pretactic game in view of the next round of the 2022 Formula One season, the British Grand Prix, where Ferrari hopes to start recovering some of the gap to Red Bull, after Charles Leclerc’s two retirements in Spain and Baku, while he was in the lead.
A win at Mercedes’ home race would be as tasty for Scuderia Ferrari as was the case back in 2018 when Sebastian Vettel won for the Italian side and celebrated the success with the now famous “in their home” radio team.
The Ferrari F1-75 has not won a race since 10 April when Charles Leclerc clearly dominated the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne and next weekend the Monegasque will be able to count on a completely new engine in terms of power unit components after the grid penalties in Canada. At the same time, Charles Leclerc will also use the new rear wing mounted for the Montreal weekend, which Ferrari was also used last week at the Mugello circuit in the testing session for Pirelli’s 2023 tyres.
Christian Horner said Red Bull won’t bring big updates to their home grand prix (Red Bull’s ‘residence’ remains Austria), but Ferrari feel that it not completely true. The Maranello team believe the RB18 car will be up to three tenths faster in qualifying and in race pace due to weight reduction. According to today’s edition of Italian newspaper Il Corriere dello Sport, in fact, the Milton Keynes team led by Christian Horner and Helmut Marko focused on removing the last five extra kilos that separate the RB18 from its minimum weight.
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In Spain, Max Verstappen’s car had also lost a few pounds, but this also led to an unexpected side effect such as the malfunction of the DRS: “A lesson we took on the chin,” admitted Red Bull chief engineer Paul Monaghan. Red Bull’s intervention on weight would make both Mattia Binotto’s and Horner’s words true. A potential improvement of three tenths is the result of a “great development” as claimed by the Ferrari team principal, but at the same time there would be no visual updates on the RB18 as stated by Christian Horner after the Canadian Grand Prix.
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