Leo Turini, a veteran of Italian racing journalism, brings interesting historical parallels after Ferrari’s double retirement in Baku and urges not to fall into populism. And to paraphrase the title of Steven Spielberg’s famous movie, he asks Ferrari, “Save Private Leclerc!”
I’m not a youngster, and looking at what happened in Baku, I remembered 1974. That season Niki Lauda and Clay Regazzoni won a dozen pole positions with the Ferrari 312B3-74, and there were far fewer stages in the championship then than there are now. But they only won three wins and as a result, the title went to Emerson Fittipaldi.
When this happens, we must try not to go to extremes, not to slip into populism and ask ourselves, “Is there any point in looking for the culprits?”
In the past Mattia Binotto worked on motorcycles. He made his career by rehabilitating Ferrari’s engine division after a disastrous 2014 season. Experienced specialists work there, so I expect they will be able to find some solutions.
It is quite clear to me that in Maranello something is not working at the level of the department responsible for quality control. If you look at what’s happening from the side, it seems that overtaking Red Bull, whose cars are going faster and faster, will only lead to miscalculations and misses. And there are too many.
The alarm has already gone off in Barcelona. At the same time, customer teams are also starting to struggle. How could such a thing happen?
Usually, if everything is fine with the speed, you have to find some technical solution to fix reliability issues. And now we are talking about a car that is just super fast, at least when Charles Leclerc drives in F1-75.
Without breakdowns and mistakes, he could easily recover from the last three races. Unfortunately this did not happen. And here we must not forget the 2005 season, when Kimi Raikkonen, then still playing for McLaren, missed out on winning the championship due to the fact that his car engines were constantly breaking down.
All this is very disappointing and after yesterday’s events, Leclerc’s face showed how much he was going through.
Adds drama to what is happening and the fact that ahead of the Montreal stage, Ferrari simply does not have the physical ability to develop any sort of solution that could correct the situation.
I yell, “Save Private Leclerc!”
Enough to give gifts to Max Verstappen and Red Bull, they already know how to win races without it.
Still, Ferrari will win. But at Le Mans. But in 2023.
Source: F1 News
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