La Ferrari for the first time after dark years he sees the concrete possibility of bringing the world trophy back to Maranello. In Canada, the duel Sainz–Verstappen and Leclerc's comeback lifted morale after the defeats a Barcelona, Monaco, Baku. A match, the one with Red Bull and it gets more and more difficult. And if many still believe and focus on a head to head and a close fight between the two top teams, there are those, like the former Patron of F1, Bernie Ecclestone, already gives up Ferrari and its lead driver: Charles Leclerc.
Unclear goals
Mattia binotto, Team Principal of the Maranello team has recently reevaluated the goals of the Reds, which created some discontent and raised further doubts about Ferrari's real match. The goal is not the world championship but back to fighting for victories. "We have come from difficult years - Binotto had said after the weekend in Baku – and we set out to be competitive again. And when I say go back to being competitive, it doesn't mean being competitive at the first race and that's it. Ma it means to be so for the whole season, and to be so you have to continue to develop, to do well and be able to be able to win in every race. Then we will sum up. No one would have bet on our ability to be competitive at the start of this season."
Calling it ambition or goal is the same. There there is a will to win and the game, up to mathematical certainty, is still open. But ecclestone, who talked about the world fight in a recent interview to the Swiss newspaper View, don't think so.
“Those who bet on Ferrari will lose everything”
“I was hoping, like many people, that Ferrari could win again after more than 14 years. Now unfortunately I have to warn anyone who wants to bet their money on Ferrari or Charles Leclerc that it will be money lost, they will get nothing " – says Ecclestone, with rather provocative words, characteristic of his communicative style. The former boss thinks that Max Verstappen will come to Monza with the trophy already in hand.
After the third round of the 2022 World Championship, in Melbourne, the Reds had to deal with various factors, including problem reliability, errors in strategy and imperfections of the pilots. Now Charles is third in championship, 49 lengths off her main rival, Max Verstappen. The Ferrari it is instead at -76 from Red Bull which has been able to count, so far, on the steadiness of both pilots.
Source: FormulaPassion
Ferrari is in chaos
According to Ecclestone in Italy there would be too much excitement for the return of the Red. So the will to win at all costs would have clouded even the minds of the insiders, who would have gotten into confusion. "In Ferrari they made mistakes again, reliability seems to be back to the old days and this makes the pilots unsafe. Max is having an easy time and has already achieved six victories”.
