This is the Ferrari SF23 of Sainz and Leclerc for 2023

This Tuesday, at the legendary track of Fiorano (Maranello, Italy), Ferrari presented the car in which they want to change their recent history. Coinciding with Valentine’s Day, the ‘tifosi’ began to rejoice in their new love, a red jewel revealed to great expectations in a town where they needed to wait for glory to not continue to grow. It was love at first sight. The new SF23 gives the illusion of an entire nation to see their team win again. That is the goal set by Ferrari for this 2023 with Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc at the wheel of this new car, a pure evolution of the 2022 car where they want to perfect their strengths and solve the aspects that prevented the Italians from their failure to fight to the finish for the title last year.

That can only be good news for Carlos Sainz. The Spaniard has struggled to adapt to the 2022 car as it is completely at odds with his style. He had to fight without losing his mind and was able to turn his situation around, catching his team-mate Leclerc in terms of pace in the latter part of the course.

“Now that everyone has seen it, the car is amazing. It’s even better than last year and I think we have one of the best on the grid. Now it’s time to make sure everything is in the right place site, an installation lap, that the brakes are good, feel the engine, the traction… It’s time to start to feel the first things about the car but I’m sure that when I or Charles get in we will push a little more. We will do it. As soon as we warm up we will push the car, it is in our nature after seeing how it is and having first impressions,” he declared with a smile from ear to ear ear

He warned MD last year that his end of the year was “a good starting point” to start fighting for everything from scratch. That would be the goal in a single-seater where they also tried to correct the aspects that made it difficult to drive, especially in moderate and fast corners. “Above all, I want to have a first half of the season that allows me to stay in the fight. I already know that my second half of the year is usually strong, so what we saw at the end of the season is a good sign and I hope that I can start from this base or better in 2023″, he pointed out. Now we just need to know if on the track, in the next pre-season tests in Bahrain (from February 23 to 25), he will take care of his rivals for the crown. Carlos wants to take advantage of this. wants the title

For his part, Charles Leclerc is also looking forward to start the season: “I can’t wait. In 2022 we made a very important step forward compared to the two previous years. We finished second in the constructors’ championship and I was also runner-up. I think the team has done a great job minimizing the weaknesses we had last year, hopefully it will work and the goal is definitely to win and get the championship back.

At first glance, it shows that this is a clear evolution of the 2022 car, keeping the basic concept, but perfecting every detail of the vehicle.

In the first year of the 2022 regulations, Ferrari got out of the mess of the previous years and began to be imbued with a car philosophy and a design concept that seemed unparalleled at first. But midway through the campaign, Red Bull overtook them in development and the Italians were left with honey on their lips. The evolution of the course is one of the many pending tasks that the new head of the Scuderia, the French Frédéric Vasseur, has to sort out, along with repeated failures in the last campaigns in the pits and on the approach wall. They wanted to solve other problems that hit Ferrari last year in the creation and design of this new SF23.

Ferrari suffered more tire wear than Red Bull in the second half of the year, lower top speed on the straight, especially with open DRS. And they can’t squeeze all the horsepower out of their engine because of wear and tear and reliability flaws. The first points, need to fix you on the basic concept and philosophy of the new SF23 design. While the engine department did its part, something that at the moment seems to be paying off and building confidence in the Gestione Sportiva de Maranello.

On Valentine’s Day, Ferrari celebrated love for its history and for its new illusion. Only time will tell if the SF23 is the car of their lives or a simple crush that ends in tears. At the moment, Ferrari believes it is possible to beat Red Bull and Mercedes, the two dominant teams in recent years. The ‘Prancing Horse’ dreams of regaining the drivers’ title for the first time since 2007.