Scuderia Ferrari looks ahead with confidence: the Maranello team leads the Drivers’ World Championship with Charles Leclerc, 12 points clear of his Maranello team mate Carlos Sainz and 20 over Max Verstappen, while in the Constructors standings Ferrari dominates with 78 points, 40 more than Mercedes and 41 more than Red Bull.
The F1-75 is a single-seater that did not show serious issues during the first two GPs of the 2022 Formula 1 season and should therefore remain competitive also in Australia, while we wait for the sport to make its debut in Europe with the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at the Imola circuit, when the teams will begin to bring the first important development packages, taking into account the limitation dictated by the Budget Cap.
“Melbourne is still a different track from the last two – explained Mattia Binotto, as reported by Motorsport Italy – “It’s a track that has been changed since the last time we went to Australia, so it will be a bit of a novelty for everyone. We are confident because we have seen that our car in Barcelona, Bahrain and Jeddah has adapted well, so we hope to be competitive once again” – the Ferrari boss said.
The Ferrari F1-75 car was designed well, but history has taught us that the Maranello team has been lost in recent years due to the inability to keep up with its rivals. We still remember what happened in 2017 and 2018 when the Maranello team’s car was in the running for the title in the first part of the championship: “Well, this is a team that has consolidated and grown in experience. In 2017 I had just been promoted to technical director – continues Mattia Binotto – and like me other young guys had been promoted to new roles. These engineers have improved a lot and are more experienced, I believe that the team as a whole has grown not only as people, but also in our design and development tools. I am thinking of the simulator, the wind tunnel, the CFD simulation part and so on. We are now better equipped than in the past” – he added.
So, is the Racing Department ready to hold up the world championship challenge with Red Bull and, possibly, with Mercedes to the end?
“The F1-75 is a demonstration of this because it is the result of people who work in Maranello and of the tools they use. Compared to previous seasons, we are more ready to do a better job. Then, of course, there is the Budget Cap that was not there before and on which we will have to be careful “.
Mattia Binotto’s working group hasn’t changed, the people are the same people who flopped with the disastrous SF1000, but it must be admitted that in between there was that unfortunate “secret agreement” with the FIA that had clipped Ferrari’s wings. .
Enrico Cardile and David Sanchez for the chassis part and Enrico Gualtieri and Wolf Zimmerman for the engine part had the time to study the F1-75 interpreting the rules of the ground-effect single-seaters in the most appropriate way. The 2022 Ferrari Formula 1 car shows no major problems and Ferrari can therefore delay the introduction of developments until they are 100% ready, because the car still has more potential which can be expressed by its current qualities.
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The hollowed sidepods make it possible to compensate with the load generated by the upper part of the sides the need to keep the F1-75 slightly higher from the ground than Red Bull in order to avoid the porpoising phenomenon that certainly affected Ferrari less than many other teams, especially Mercedes.
But Ferrari thus manages to have a more balanced behavior that allows a good exploitation of the Pirelli new tires which will play a decisive role when the real heat will affect the next rounds of the 2022 Formula 1 world championship.
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