Team Principal Mattia Binotto, analyzing the upcoming Ferrari races, indicated the Mexican GP as the Maranello team’s best chance to score a win in 2021, considering the high altitude event the as the most favorable for the characteristics of the SF21.
The team principal had not yet seen the responses of the simulations of the United States GP: according to rumors, the data that emerged from the work on the simulator indicate a Ferrari capable of making a good impression again after the positive indications that emerged from Istanbul.
Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, free from penalties for having run the power unit 4 equipped with the new hybrid system, can show, hopefully in an event not affected by the rain, the full potential of the 065/6 EVO to conquer those points useful to reduce the 7.5 gap that separates Ferrari from McLaren, in the battle for third place in the Constructors’ World Championship.
The Scuderia did not go to Texas with the ambition of repeating the success of Kimi Raikkonen in 2018 with the SF71H, but the intention is to continue the work focusing on the 2022 season that will have to bring Ferrari back among the protagonists of the world championship fight.
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Carlos Sainz in the exclusive interview granted to Motorsport.com made no secret of it: “I am sure that at Ferrari we have done an incredible job in recent years with the aim of building a winning team. As I said, I don’t know if 2022 will be the right year, but it sure is the first chance to try. “
And, therefore, in addition to seeking the results that allow the Maranello to arrive at the goal for 2021, there is also a commitment to try everything on the SF21 that can be transferred to the 2022 single-seater in compliance with the regulations.
It is true that the power unit is frozen in the development of the parts clearly defined by the FIA, but, just to give an example, there are accessories that are not part of the blocked components such as fuel pumps and can be freely replaced.
In Austin, solutions will be used that foreshadow the endothermic unit of 2022: lighter pumps will be used that will have to pass the reliability screen, in order to ensure from now to the end of the season of the duration tests in the car that will allow to homologate a “Superfast” power unit with fewer unknowns on duration, given that Wolf Zimmermann’s project promises to be with some innovative concepts.
In short, Ferrari looks to the last part of the season with an optimistic view, in the hope of starting to reap the benefits of a long, often obscure work, which already anticipates some technical contents that will have to drive the actual expected comeback in the 2021 Formula One season.
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