It is very difficult to be able to understand what happened at home Ferrari. The first race of the season is archived with a fourth place and a training camp. Definitely a disappointing aspect, especially if we consider how these first results of 2023 were born.
Ferrari, not the hoped-for start
Let me be clear: calm. The season has just begun and we are only at race 1 of 23. The start is clearly not as hoped for, but this does not mean thinking about 2024 already. Vasseur was clear on this: the world championship cannot be won, let alone lost, in Bahrain. The first weekend of the season helped many, even the biggest enthusiasts, to understand what the hierarchies were on the track. Ferrari at the moment, in comparison with Red Bull, seemed behind. Quite back. The main problem? Race pace. The SF-23 appears to be a car very similar to last year's: tire degradation is the element that scares the technicians in Maranello so much. In Bahrain, when Red Bull literally lost +0.0, la red mounting the Hard has suffered a degradation of +0.8. A huge gap, considering the great strength of the Milton Keynes team.
Dear reliability: welcome back
Another problem, with a view to 2022, is related reliability. During the winter, there was more talk of an engine problem, resolved in view of the new season. For this, Ferrari had the opportunity to move up the engine. As that eventually transpired, considering that in the straights the Ferrari was the fastest car on the track. The problem, at least for now, does not seem to be attributable to the power unit, but to the electrical component. In fact, on Leclerc's car, before the start of the Grand Prix, she had been mountainous a new ECU and a new battery. The replacement had been of a precautionary nature, as the team was not satisfied with some parameters that had emerged. The worrying aspect is that if Leclerc's retirement yesterday was linked to the ECU, Jeddah would face the risk of a penalty.
Now we need to calm down
With this beginning, at least there is a positive side, ed it's the calendar. In fact, Formula 1 stops and will be back on track in two weeks, with the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Two weeks time to return to GES and see the hand of Vasseur That (as he also stated) no longer needs to understand, but to act.
