Italian media react to Ferrari’s 2022 Imola race: “‘Own goals’ and the bad luck”. Italian media react to Ferrari's 2022 Imola race.

Red Bull had not scored a one-two finish since the 2016 Formula 1 season and Scuderia Ferrari had always finished at least on the podium in the current championship: at Imola, on the other hand, in front of more than 60,000 Ferrari fans, the Maranello team had a Sunday marked by bad luck and errors, with Carlos Sainz hit at the start by Daniel Ricciardo and Charles Leclerc who spun in the final stages of the Emilia Romagna GP while attempting a last desperate assault on Sergio Perez’s Red Bull, which proved to be a great right hand for Max Verstappen: the Dutch driver won and took the fastest lap ahead of Checo, which was their first one-two finish since racing for the Austrian team.

“The slit eyes, the restless look of the worst days. The last fans looking for autographs are satisfied, someone tries to console him. Charles Leclerc greets the fans then runs away. Away from the nightmare, a week that began with the robbery of a very expensive watch in Viareggio and continued here with a mistake” – was the opening of a report from Corriere della Sera titled ‘The blow’ – “Red Bull has proved to be faster than the Ferrari cars each time when it mattered: in dry and mixed conditions. Red Bull reduced the gap in the constructors’ classification to just 11 points, as they took advantage of the ‘own goals’ and the bad luck of the Ferrari fans, achieving more than expected. It is the first real defeat for Ferrari in 2022, it should not be experienced as a drama but as a warning “.

‘Spin’ is the title of La Stampa which writes: “The two Red Bulls parade in front of the Imola crowd. The party is over due to a well-deserved and painful double for the 130,000 spectators, as the red wave that filled the racetrack over the weekend to see Ferrari make a great comeback had to see Verstappen and Perez on the top of the podium. Ferrari comes out defeated due to errors and bad luck, but not not downsized “. ‘Charles Leclerc tries too much, Ferrari postponed’ is the title chosen by Repubblica, which opens by quoting the U2 song ‘Sunday bloody Sunday’ in memory of January 30, 1972 (when in the Northern Irish city of Derry the United Kingdom army fired on participants in a demonstration killing 14 unarmed people and injuring as many): “Sunday bloody sunday. The wounded Ferrari, at home, in an all-red Imola that is tinged with blue. A double for the Red Bull cars, which rise from the ashes of too many DNFs util the triumph of Santerno. Max Verstappen takes it all (34 points at the weekend, climbs 2nd in the standings to 59 points, -27 from Charles Leclerc), Sergio Perez his wingman and Maranello down from the podium, right here where Ferrari wanted a good result the most and could celebrate in front of its fans, with 64 thousands of fans in the stands and on the lawns which got soaked in the rain that fell up to an hour before the race. Too many things don’t work: the F1-75 race starts, Carlos getting hit, the pit stops”.