The arrival of the new Team Principal has already rocked the boat at Ferrari. The most awaited change perhaps, from the passing of the baton between Frederic Vasseur e Mattia binotto arrived in Bahrain for pre-season testing. Inaki Rueda, Spanish engineer responsible for strategies often under accusation, in particular after the Monaco Grand Prix he will remain at the remote garage in Maranello and he will not follow the team on the track. In its place Ravin Jain young Indian engineer who arrived in Maranello in 2016. Perhaps a choice to protect Rueda, removing him from the spotlight, and from that uncomfortable role, but above all the first "heavy" step of a different management, that of Vasseur, ready to definitively reverse the negative trend at Ferrari.
A new beginning
The start of the season is always filled with expectations, a correlation is sought between the data on the simulator and that on the track, the drivers can become familiar with the new single-seaters, the rankings are reset. At Sakhir, however, the Ferrari SF-23 has to start over from the mistakes of the past, in particular from the reliability problems that afflicted the F1-75, or with tire management. But those weren't the only problems at the Reds' home last season. For an F1-75 in good shape, there might have been an absent team, with disastrous strategies, indecisions and mistakes that caused the Ferrari to slip dramatically, forced to defend second place from Mercedes.
Once the problems with the car on which Vasseur was able to legislate little had been addressed, we arrived at the crux of the low wall. To the first decisions on the formation to be deployed. Laurent Mekies, will have the management of the team. Vasseur will handle media relations, sponsors and the pilot management, another element of attention in the Ferrari house. The new head of strategies as mentioned will be Ravin Jain. To find out if the efforts in Maranello will have borne fruit, we will have to wait. In fact, if there is one lesson that we were able to learn last year, it is that the championship is not won with a draw but with perseverance and the ability to react to the unexpected.
Source: Corriere.it
