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EYES ON THE PRIZE

ALL THE FORMULA 1 TEAMS, and especially the top ones, face the challenge of engaging on two fronts this season: with the championship that’s about to begin, and with the massive task that is the 2021 car project. It’s likely that in each factory there will be two discrete working groups as resources are juggled, but for the frontrunners there will be nothing less than maximum effort to secure both the drivers’ and constructors’ titles. In the case of Ferrari, a team that hasn’t won either championship since 2008, to return to the top is the absolute goal, and in 2020 the route is clear: nothing will be left on the table until the last chequered flag. It’s likely to become brutal.

TOTAL CONFIDENCE IN BINOTTO?

THE SEASON THAT’S ABOUT to get under way in Melbourne will be hugely important for the Scuderia, an embattled organisation that remains on the hunt for answers which will not only affect the technical area. Team principal Mattia Binotto spoke several times last year about it

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