Since the beginning of the year, the Ferrari it seemed to be the most competitive of cars on the grid; in fact, in the first 3 races, the Red team won 2 victories, a brace e 5 podiums. The trend seemed to be very positive, but from Imola onwards, between pilot errors, bad strategies and especially problem reliability, the two Ferrari drivers have lost a lot of points. The last problem is the one that worries the team principal the most Matthias Binotto.
Reliability alarm: "it will take time"
After two seasons worst from the postural of the power unit, this year's Superfast Ferrari should have been unrestrainable; in fact, she has proven that she can compete with other manufacturers, as Mercedes e Red Bull, but it was the red team's riders who slowed down the progress reliability problems. For example, a Barcelona and Baku, Ferrari was objectively dominating e Leclerc he would have won those races easily, if the Superfast Ferrari had not had other ideas.
The team principal of the Scuderia di Maranello spoke precisely on this, Mattia binotto, who, during an interview with various media, reported on Motorsport.com, he has declared: "We are working on reliability, we are also running it on grand prix weekends. We are working on it and trying to resolve it definitively for the next one. There are certain changes that don't take days and weeks to make. So they will definitely be resolved next year, but that doesn't mean they won't already be handled this season.".
Porpoising and 2023
Furthermore, from the next grand prix the rules for limiting the pouring. Binotto also intervened about this topic and on rules for 2023, with words very strong towards of the FIA. “On the directive for Spa, it has been circulated, it exists, it is known and it will be implemented in Spa. It is a certain thing. We are going too long on the regulations for next year, it seems to me too late."
"You can't make such significant changes so late, also considering the fact that we have limited wind tunnel hours and there is also the budget cap that limits us. The car concepts are now set. Going to change them now doesn't make sense because it's a non-existent problem. Even in Hungary no one has talked about bouncing and I'm sorry that people are dragging out so much about an issue that doesn't exist. We are talking about nothing and we are dragging it. I believe nothing is changed. Otherwise it would be crazy!”.
AUTHOR: FRANCESCO ORLANDO
Statement source: Motorsport.com
