F1 2021: Ferrari aims for high for 2022: Closer to Mercedes and Red Bull

Ferrari He wants to be Ferrari again. In 2021 they had to settle for being the best behind the unattainable ‘Top 2’ (mercedes and Red Bull). These from Maranello finished in Third place in the World Builders’ Cup 323.5 points. In the last part of the season they managed to knockout McLaren (4 with a score of 275 points).

moreover, Carlos Sainz He was the best driver to take four of the leading teams in Formula One (Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas and Chico Breeze). Real Madrid finished fifth with 164.5 points in a tournament in which they moved from less to more. Something that makes perfect sense, as it was his first year at Scuderia. However, he managed to subdue Charles Leclerc in the general classification.

Non-conformity in “Scuderia”

for 2022 in Slough Fernando Alonso s Alps They have Plan. Ferrari owns you. Nothing but winning races again. They are not satisfied with the platforms and being “the best of the rest”. “It’s not what we want, but it’s normal. Because we are a racing team. We are Scuderia Ferrari, and If someone is satisfied with third place, something is wrong‘ confirms the sporting director Laurent Mekes In the data collected by “Motorsport-Total”.

If someone at Ferrari is satisfied with third place, something is wrong

Laurent Mikis (Ferrari Sport Director)

And the positive addition of 2021 for the famous Italian square: “What I can say is that we are facing 2021 as if we were fighting for the World Cup. We know how valuable every opportunity and every point is, and how much you have to adapt and develop on weekends to face the unknown, be it new roads or harsh weather conditions. So we treated it as a fight for the championship, even though we knew we weren’t fast enough to fight for the title.”

It concludes: “We have advanced and we are convinced of the direction we have taken. For the battle ahead, further steps are necessary but we believe we will arrive in time.”. The first thing is to stay together in difficult situations like we did this year. Then we had to take on McLaren, which in turn was a good indication of how much you can recover from the past, where the current level is and whether you can go that far. “

Binotto, in the foreground, with Sainz and Mekies in the background.Scuderia Ferrari

Start winning races

And if that’s what Makis thinks, Mattia Binotto Go further. The Ferrari chief displays an ambitious speech, with the utmost in subjective demand. 2022 is the year of organizational change. It’s a good time to take another step forward. “It remains for us to approach the strongest. Next year we have to do better and we have to show that we can win some races: This year we have not had a single success, in 2022 being competitive means that in some great prizes we will have to compete for the best position”, he emphasizes in a few words collected by the Italian version of “Motorsport”.

Next year we will have to do even better: we have to show that we can win some great prizes

Mattia Binotto (Jeff del Equipo Ferrari)

Will they be more competitive next year? Binotto hopes so. They trust that the new Ferrari is more powerful than the SF21. “It’s hard to say now, because we all started from a blank page and are working blindly. Without knowing what others are doing, we have to look at ourselves. In my opinion the team is doing well, but we also know that the others are very strong: if they can make great cars on the track, they are definitely very strong teams.”

What it shows is that they gave everything to be better in such an important F1 year like 2022. “For our part, we are doing our best for that, we have prioritized 2022 because We know there is still something to take back. Honestly, we still don’t feel like a better two, because the facts have shown that they are very strong, but the hope is that we will have continued growth for the team which I see united.”