Scuderia Ferrari perhaps will look at this season with the most regret after frankly designing a car that scared their rivals in the first part of the championship. The F1-75 will be looked at fondly as a car that was unusual in many ways; it could literally reach peak performance in any track – low or high downforce, long or short straights. In any type of weather condition, they could heat their tires and compete under any circumstance.
They were the fastest car for a good portion of the season until all of that changed in Hungary where after an impressive Friday, they simply lost all pace from Saturday qualifying to a poor Mercedes and have seemingly never gotten it back since. One of the reasons that has been speculated on the grid is that when previously, it didn’t take much for the tires on the F1-75 to get to optimum temperature, now they wear out too fast and during a full race, this bleeds pace from them. The performance in Monza was a bit more encouraging with Charles Leclerc securing pole ahead of Max Verstappen and Ferrari will want to build on that. So, which upgrades do Ferrari feel they can bring to remedy the situation and secure a few more wins this season even if the titles are out of their reach?
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