The new Scuderia single-seater, which continued in its original version, covered its first kilometers in the same presentation. Carlos Sainz stayed in the pits and it was Charles Leclerc who premiered him
In front of hundreds of ‘tifosi’, Ferrari stripped off the corset of its formal presentations to give millions of fans around the world an event worthy of its legend. After years in which the car exhibition turned into a boring press conference with a few journalists, brand managers and guests in a room, they decided to move to Fiorano, the nearby test track (you can walk from the factory) of the Scuderia in the small town of Maranello to run it for the first time. It’s quite a statement of intent: Ferrari isn’t just for drivers or for the big elites, it’s a way of understanding life.
Some 500 Scuderia fans had Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz a few feet away, feeling their warmth up close. After a disappointing 2022 season that claimed Mattia Binotto’s head, Frederic Vassuer, the new team principal, came to the table. After watching his rivals show off models, rendered images or simple decorations on last year’s cars, he decided to open the doors to make his car debut. An SF23 that, while it will be remarkably different from the one on the Bahrain track, is already fully functional: it drove five laps with Charles Leclerc at the wheel while Carlos Sainz sat in the box asking his feelings.
The unit shown in Fiorano maintains the continuist lines that already worked for them in 2022. In any case, the “pool” he had on the bonnet of the pontoons has been made less pronounced, the nose has been retouched to refine it and shorten it slightly and it has been He has opted for some air intakes that are far from are of the aggressiveness seen in the likes of the Aston Martin. Lots of details and tweaks that will, predictably, evolve before the car returns to the track.
The networks surrendered to the event. The vast majority of Ferrari and Formula 1 fans emphasized the Scuderia’s courage to give such a live presentation with the number of things that can go wrong. For example, some remembered that blue screen that jumped at the premiere of the mythical Windows 98, despite the surprise and embarrassment of Bill Gates himself. Ferrari has pulled out a brave hand to start the game, in this mental case, to put pressure on their rivals: not only do they have a car that works, but they don’t wait for a day of filming.
Those five limited rounds were given by Charles Leclerc and not Carlos Sainz after an alleged lottery in the form of a coin toss. The conspiracy theorists might say it’s the first nod to the favoritism of Vasseur, who has had Leclerc under his command in the past, but it goes without saying that it would be too naive a source to take into account at this point. to hold. . Sainz a priori has the same role in the team as his teammate ‘Percival’ Leclerc.
Every presentation, especially those that dare to show something of the real car, serves to see where the ‘trick’ that the engineers are looking for is. As the Anglo-Saxons say, the devil is in the details, and there is one shown by Ferrari that has attracted a lot of attention: the nose.
Although they already threw it back in 2022, the Scuderia’s technical managers have recovered some small appendages, some ‘winglets’ according to the English terminology so widely used in a technical world like that of Formula 1. Predictably, these wings will already be be adjusted during the tests, but it is of course a warning to the teams: Ferrari will try to innovate. Another very different matter is that they are “worst” or improvements.
All the details, both visible and implied, of an event largely led by Spaniard Marc Gené come to erase the bad taste the tifosi had to endure in 2022. In a campaign where things are expected to get much tighter, Ferrari is going on the offensive. You just have to see if this SF23 really doesn’t stick with a statement of intent and achieve something more, but of course there is a slight change from what has been seen on other occasions.
Source: La Verdad
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