From tomorrow Ferrari will be in action at Fiorano to kick off the three-day training session on their home track with the SF-21, or the car that participated in the 2021 Formula One World Championship. The curtain therefore officially rises on the new vintage of the most famous team in the world. After the snow that has fallen these days, everything seems to be back to normal and the “training test” should go smoothly and will immediately see a surprise.
In fact, we will not see Charles Leclerc at the wheel of the car with the Prancing Horse. nor Carlos Sainz, but Robert Shwartzman. The Israeli-Russian driver has been called behind the wheel of the SF-21 because the work program approved in Maranello requires the 23-year-old to raise the curtain on the 2023 season, followed by the two owners even if the order is still to be decided . The two regular drivers are available to the team and, in fact, are working on the simulator to quickly learn how to use the 675.
How will this three-day event at Fiorano develop? Each of the three pilots will have a whole day’s work available to do at will. Ferrari obviously takes advantage of its home track to get its drivers back in confidence with all the procedures that need to be memorized, repeating last year’s session. The difficulty, given the weather in this period, will be getting the tires up to temperature given the temperatures close to zero these days.
Photo: Shwartzman – LiveMedia/Florent Gooden / Dppi/DPPI
