What to expect from the new Ferrari SF-23 challenger? A few days after the winter pre-season testing session, which took place at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, several question marks remain about the values on the gird. Above all, there is a lot of mystery surrounding the Ferrari garage: the Maranello car worries journalists and commentators – as far as we have seen – especially in terms of race simulations.
Regarding the impressions from within the team, aside from some worried faces of the first day of pre-season testing, team principal Frederic Vasseur expressed some words of confidence, while also keeping what he experienced confidential.
In the three days of pre-season testing in Bahrain, the world champion team proved to once again be the team to beat, while being particularly calm about the work done. The strong form shown by Red Bull, combined with a car that appeared unstoppable in the first few outings, give Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez the status of favourites, at least as in the start of the 2023 Formula One season.
However, sources from the Milton Keynes team’s garage reveal uncertainties about the performance shown by the Prancing Horse in the winter tests. The men of the Anglo-Austrian team, by analyzing the data of the rival teams, would have succeeded in understanding the level of Mercedes and the surprising Aston Martin. But not that of Scuderia Ferrari.
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This is the information reported by journalist and F1 expert Giuliano Duchessa in a post on his Twitter account, which reveals the impressions of a source close to the Milton Keynes environment. The text published by Giuliano Duchessa reads: “Speaking to a source very close to Red Bull, he confirmed to me: «We know more or less where Mercedes is, we know more or less where Aston Martin is, but we really don’t know where Ferrari is»“ .
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