Turini: Is the glass half full or half empty?

Italian journalist Leo Turini is angry that his favorite team Ferrari has missed the victory in Miami, but at the same time finds arguments in defense†

If I had been told before the start of the season that Charles Leclerc and Ferrari would lead both championship standings after five races, I would immediately agree with this option. So for now, the glass can be considered half full.

On the other hand, it is still half empty. When the red cars occupy the entire front row, we get angry when the Scuderia drivers are on the bottom two steps of the podium after the finish.

In Miami it was quite clear that the Red Bull car with Max Verstappen behind the wheel is clearly faster. We have already seen this in Imola.

And now I’m even jealous of those who are absolutely convinced that Maranello is just messing around. If you listen to these people, it turns out that Red Bull is busy modernizing the car and that Ferrari is nonsense.

An interesting theory, but of course completely unfounded. And if you just assume that Red Bull has a faster car at this stage of the season? (hopefully just this one) Didn’t it occur to you?

I don’t want to defend anyone and stuff, because personally I’m more interested in something else now.

In fact Ferrari is still leading the championship and will do everything they can to stay in these positions, although this is a very difficult task.

It has always been my understanding that those who think that the Scuderia has squandered such a great advantage are wrong. They start from the wrong premise. The F1-75 only dominated Melbourne because Red Bull had reliability issues, but that’s another story.

Let’s move on. In Miami, Carlos Sainz had a good race, but at the start he was unable to cover the back of Charles Leclerc. At the same time, I am not at all saying that if Sainz had succeeded, the race would have gone differently and Verstappen would have finished third.

But in the early laps, when the DRS system was still not working, Carlos was able to stay close behind Max, helping Leclerc to make a small gap and perhaps allowing him not to put too much stress on the tires.

By the way, about tires. Maybe I’m wrong, but when the safety car showed up on the track, I’d change the tires on one of the cars if I were the Ferrari strategists. Although after Imola I understand that this could introduce an additional element of uncertainty into the course of the race in a situation where it was important to show the best result.