“The car today was a beast, I could do everything I wanted with it” – these were the words of Charles Leclerc after the Ferrari F1-75 crossed the finish line in first position in the 2022 Australian Grand Prix at the Albert Park Circuit, the first race in which Charles led from the first to the last lap, in which he also recorded the fastest lap of the race as evidence of a car almost perfect and kind to the tires unlike the Red Bull RB18, which ended up having to retire with Max Verstappen and far away with Sergio Perez despite the fact that the race recorded the entry of the Safety Car twice.
The 2022 car is the result of years of efforts in Maranello, also because the pandemic that postponed the regulation change scheduled for 2021 to the current season has postponed Ferrari’s plans, which arrived on time in this championship, by one year. Charles Leclerc has 34 points ahead of George Russell in the Drivers’ standings, Ferrari even 39 over Mercedes despite the k.o recorded in Melbourne by Carlos Sainz, too impetuous at the start with the less performing compound of the Pirelli range, the hard one. Such a dominant Ferrari had not been registered since 2004, when Michael Schumacher in the third race crumbled the competition in Bahrain, taking his third success in as many races.
For now in this early 2022 Max Verstappen has managed to snatch the victory from Charles Leclerc and Ferrari at Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, but the F1-75 at the moment “is in a championship of its own” quoting Red Bull team principal Christian Horner. Results resulting from the work and patience of team principal Mattia Binotto who has never doubted that he was at the helm of a group capable of bringing winning ideas to the track. This aspect of a Ferrari that has been able to have patience without upsetting the technical organization chart despite disappointing seasons is underlined by today’s edition of La Repubblica and La Gazzetta dello Sport, as pointed out by formulapassion.it:
“Mattia Binotto and his team raise their heads after 14 years of resounding defeats, sometimes even humiliating. It could be the beginning of a cycle. The SF-75 is not simply a perfect car, as it happens from time to time in Formula 1 to teams that invest more; but the product of an accurate three-year planning work, the result of an attitude not very much in vogue in Italy, yet prolific – writes Marco Mensurati in today’s edition of La Repubblica – Binotto knew very well that the Ferrari problem was unsolvable in the short term, having its roots in the period 2008-14, and notably in the lack of understanding the impact that hybrid technology would have and still was having in motorsport (and in the automotive sector in general). He thus decided to focus on long-term work, to sacrifice at least two seasons, 2020 and 2021, in the study of the new technical regulations (which came into force this year) and in the formation of a winning team. The goal was to be ready, competitive car and hungry team, for 2022 when the new technical regulation would have made a clean sweep of the now chronic advantages acquired by the competition “.
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“Mattia Binotto is the man who drove Ferrari on a two-year crossing in the desert (2020 and 2021) at least tiring” – the words of Gianluca Gasparini about Ferrari in his analysis – “he did so wisely, useful to keep Charles Leclerc motivated when the results did not arrive and to motivate a team that was suffering with a style of command never over the top, unlike his predecessor (Maurizio Arrivabene, for whom the steps towards the pit wall were fundamental, if faced with decision instilled confidence in the whole team), a style that in any case has already paid off ”.
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