Ferrari finds itself in need of a new team principal. That’s how badly the wheels fell off its oh-so-promising title challenge. Perplexing strategy and the legacy of ruinous unreliability were the main culprits in a highly anticipated chess match giving way to a Red Bull monopoly.
The goalposts moved for the Prancing Horse when its svelte F1-75 initially came up trumps. It was lighter than its rivals out of the blocks. That agility paid off handsomely at lower speeds and enabled strong corner-exit driveability to fire it rapidly onto the straights to keep the Red Bull RB18 and its higher top speed at bay. Although the boardroom-level expectation had been for Ferrari to be a regular race winner in 2022, a victory for Charles Leclerc in Bahrain and his utter domination in Australia soon made it clear that there was capacity to dethrone Max Verstappen
