2022 should be the year of the Scuderia Ferrari. Alas, we are more than half way through the campaign, with nine races left to go and Formula 1’s oldest team continuing to find new, unexpected ways to do the race. The latest is one pop-up strategy in the Hungarian Grand Prix. Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz Jr and Charles Leclerc reached the second and third rounds, respectively; they finished it Wednesday and Friday.
The month-long summer break, thankfully, offers an opportunity to reset; a chance for driver for Forgive their own mistakes, strategists can reflect on bad calls, and engineers can try to dismiss ongoing credible mistakes with clear heads. than.
As usual when the leading teams fall into unpleasant times, it also give the guy a chance to fire the top guy. Ferrari hasn’t done it with captain Mattia Binotto – no matter how many fans seem to be clamoring for it – and Binotto insists F1.com Now is not the time for any sweeping philosophical or personnel changes.
“Nothing has to change, I think it’s always a matter of confidence, learning, building, building experience, building skill,” he said after the Hungarian Grand Prix when asked what could happen. out for the team to take advantage of them. race speed.
“But if I look back at the balance of the first half of the season there is no reason for us to change. I think we just need to understand [Hungary] and tackle that and try to be competitive, because we’ve been in 12 races so far. There’s no reason why we shouldn’t [competitive] At the next time.”
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“We win and lose together, [Hungary] not a great race, the last one was not a great one, but I think there is a lot of potential. I think we need to focus on why first [for the lack of speed in Hungary]Let’s deal with that and come back stronger. ”
In Binotto’s view, the team’s decline in Hungary was more a result of F1-75’s complete lack of speed than poor tire selection and unnecessary stops. The weather around the Hungaroring was colder than usual, leaving the hard compound on which Sainz and Leclerc finished the race unwell, and the team had direct evidence of that in underperforming tires. on the opponent’s car. Obviously a combination of factors, whether Binotto is willing to admit it or not.
That said, Ferrari is better than Mattia Binotto, and the team’s penchant for errors cannot force a return Long before his arrival in 2019, when he replaced Maurizio Arrivabene. Binotto is certainly right about one thing: Ferrari has a lot of potential, as the team that owns the fastest car by volume week after week. Unfortunately, speed has never been the only thing standing between Maranello and championships.
