The Italian GP highlighted a bright red in qualifying and a fast one in the race. Vasseur is optimistic “because in Zandvoort we also made progress on different tracks”. But the performance remains uneven
September 4 – Milan
“Monza said that after Red Bull there was only Ferrari, the others didn’t really show up. Let’s take what good things he said this weekend.” In Fred Vasseur’s words there is an understandable sense of satisfaction with how the Prancing Horse faced and contested the Italian GP, an event that is deeply felt and also somewhat feared by the Scuderia. Feared because in a season with great and unfortunately unfulfilled expectations, the race in front of your own fans is always an appointment not to be missed, bad impressions are not allowed, regardless of the great value of the opponents. And then, having narrowly escaped danger, it can be said that in this sense Ferrari really gave their all and honored the appointment, brought the best of the material available, studied the set-ups carefully, beat Red Bull in qualifying and the He held on in the race as long as he could. The public had fun, they even witnessed the two redheads battling in the final, those who returned home will keep a good memory of this race, better than the third and fourth place finishes of Carlos Sainz junior and Charles Leclerc. which in any case cannot be defined as a success for Ferrari.
verstappen roller
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This is the law of sport and of the track, in F1 practically always the strongest wins. Today the reality is this, when you get behind Red Bull you can almost flaunt the result as having been the best in the rest of the world. Max Verstappen is a steamroller who wins and does so by driving the car like teammate Sergio Perez fails to do, the third title is now in the safe. The countdown has begun and now the curiosity is no longer the “if” it will win the title and not even the “when”, but if Red Bull manages to win all 8 of the remaining races, completing a sensational record of all victories in an entire season. What George Russell had predicted after the first race in Bahrain: today there are only a few ironies left about that prediction.
goal second place
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What can Ferrari expect in the races we will see? Surely other ups and downs, this is now the technical trend. And yet, since in sport you always need to set yourself goals, the Cavallino da Monza has relaunched its challenge for second place in the constructors’ field. Today’s ranking sees Mercedes at 273, Ferrari chasing at 228, Fernando Alonso’s Aston Martin (not received at Monza) at 217. Realistic objective? Vasseur thinks so. “Since the beginning of the season the order of values has changed from track to track – said the team principal – we’ll start from scratch until next time in Singapore, it will be another challenge. We have to capture all the positive aspects of this weekend, the team did a good job and I’m happy for the fans. A result depending on the track? Let’s say that this type of track helps us and allows us something more. Singapore will be another story, but we understood the situation better after Zandvoort and therefore we hope to take a step forward on that type of track as well”.
second non-trivial
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By now all the investments will go to the 2024 single-seater, Ferrari competed in Monza for the last all-new power unit of the season to get the most out of it, so let’s get ready to see new results in flux depending on the type of track. Singapore, a city track where the load is important, will be the first test bench to see if what learned in Zandvoort on the behavior of the SF-23 can translate into better performance compared to Mercedes and Aston Martin. Competing for second place in constructors, the first of the others in this 2023, is not so trivial because he has to launch towards 2024 and means being ready to collect a success if Verstappen or Perez should stumble in their triumphal path. After all, as Gerhard Berger demonstrates, it would not be a trivial matter. Nobody remembers who finishes second, but still today everyone remembers who in 1988 interrupted the winning streak of the McLarens, who started to win them all that year.
4th September – 11.55am
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2023-09-04 09:56:54
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