F1 INSIDER
01 FERRARI'S FIGHTBACK PLAN
For a team that headed in to the 2019 season as most people’s favourite for success, Ferrari’s failure to even win a race so far in 2019 has prompted some deep soul-searching inside Maranello.
After all, the winter move to push team boss Maurizio Arrivabene aside in favour of Mattia Binotto was supposed to have given Ferrari the impetus to make the final step from race winner to world champion. It has fallen far short of expectations.
Most of the reasoning for that can be put down to its car philosophy for 2019. Its pursuit of a more aero-efficient design has proved ill-suited for this season – where having the ultimate downforce appears best for overall lap time and switching tyres on.
As Binotto confessed to F1 Racing recently: “If I would come back one year ago, I would give more focus on the downforce compared to what we did, even to the disadvantage of some more drag. Can we call that a concept? Not too sure. I think it’s an objective that has become more clear, certainly.”
It's not just this car philosophy that
