F1, a Category Where the Magic Wand Doesn’t Exist
In Formula 1, the common practice of football, which sees various teams experiencing coach changes without continuity, doesn’t work. In motorsport, there’s no magic wand; when a new group starts to come together, the fruits of their work will be visible and assessable over a time frame that requires at least two or three years of waiting. Red Bull, which now dominates Formula 1, went through seven years without winning any world titles from 2014 to 2020. Still, during this period at Milton Keynes, there was no immediate hunt for the culprit or scapegoat, quite the opposite.
Christian Horner, Adrian Newey, and Helmut Marko are still in their respective positions, and they’re back in full force, along with Max Verstappen, who honed his skills from 2016 to 2020 and immediately hit the mark at the first opportunity in 2021. In the past year and a half, the Dutchman has simply been outclassing the rest of the starting grid, now that he has the technical benchmark of the category at his disposal.
In 2023, Ferrari has inaugurated the era of Frederic Vasseur as the team principal, a role previously held by Mattia Binotto from 2019 to 2022 and by Maurizio Arrivabene from 2015 to 2018. The French manager has inherited the technical structure and the car designed by the previous management. Perhaps even starting from 2024, it won’t be possible to identify Fred Vasseur’s possible imprint on the results of the Maranello team.
The Ferrari’s top executive has highlighted, for example, that the 2023 SF-23 isn’t even “tied” to the work done in 2022 since in Formula 1, the DNA of each car has “genes” that go back up to ten years earlier: “The SF-23 is the technical legacy of the last ten years, not just the last one,” the words of Frederic Vasseur, interviewed by Autosprint magazine.
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“In six months, you can’t create a project from scratch; you have tools, software, pre-existing materials: the work done today will be seen in three or four years. Each team has its philosophy, its identity that is very clear. There are teams that, historically, are always very fast on fast tracks, like Force India that performed well in Spa, Monza, and Baku, all high-speed circuits. This was their philosophy, something that doesn’t change overnight. What they reap today is the experience of past choices. It’s like a big ship that doesn’t change quickly. We must be careful about associating names to results. It’s not because a person arrives, for example, a technical director, that things change.” – Fred Vasseur pointed out.
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