FERRARI GOES RADICAL TO END F1 TITLE WAIT
After two years of mediocrity not befitting a team as successful or mighty as Ferrari, 2022 is widely seen as the year it can become a force in Formula 1 yet again. It’s a year where, at last, there can surely be no excuses. The misery of 2020, when it struggled with an underperforming power unit and endured its worst season for 40 years, was a sobering experience for Ferrari. But it managed to clamber out of the doldrums and make significant progress last year, finishing third in the constructors’ championship after a season-long fight with McLaren.
Yet even through that 2021 battle with its great rival, Ferrari made clear that it wasn’t exactly make-or-break whether it came out on top or not. Third or fourth isn’t first – the only classification it can truly accept – and the gap to Mercedes and Red Bull was still sizeable. The best chance to make that up would only come once the new regulations arrived in 2022.
It made the launch of the new Ferrari F1-75 – named to represent
