It is no secret that the start of the 2020 F1 season for Ferrari has been disastrous. The team is lacking pace and can barely match up to Racing point let alone Mercedes and RedBull. Ferrari has been the challenger or No.2 team in the Mercedes dominant hybrid era. However, the question remains as to why Ferrari have not been able to match up to the likes of Mercedes and RedBull in the past. Even with multiple world champions in their team like Fernando Alonso, Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel, the team have not been able to return to form.
Ferrari's main problem seems to be its tendency to lean towards one driver and its poor communication. They seem to have been stumbling in places where they really shouldn't, making rookies mistakes. The most recent example I can think of is Canada 2019 where Ferrari allegedly forgot to tell Leclerc about his teammate's 5-second penalty. Lets not even get started on how bad the tyre strategies have been. Mercedes, on the other hand, is a highly coordinated team with a steady flow of communication between the drivers and the team.
As for 2020, we are still in the early stages of the season which gives Ferrari a chance to do some damage limitation. Not only were their upgrades deemed unworthy but are now being called a mid-field team by many fans. The Styrian Grand Prix saw both the Ferrari cars retiring due to Charles Leclerc's unnecessary and high-risk placement of his car leading to an inevitable crash. This really didn't help that fact that the team were struggling. Both their drivers need to be more vigilant of one and other. This is the time for both drivers to come together as a team and salvage whatever points they can get. The problem with Ferrari is not the drivers rather its the sheer lack of performance and pace. When two top-class drivers label a car "undriveable", you know things are bad.
When things go wrong in Maranello, all hell sets loose. It's almost as if the team doesn't know how to deal with a crisis. What Ferrari need to focus on is understanding and improving the performance of their car.
Does Ferrari require new leadership?
Ferrari has had a long history of sacking its team principals. So it was no surprise when Italian media, Corriere della Sera reported that Ferrari GT boss Antonello Coletta has become a potential replacement for current team principal Mattia Binotto. While Binotto's first year saw nine poles, three victories and runners-up to Mercedes, 2020 hasn't gone the right way. It fact things have taken a turn for the worse. Ferrari requires strong leadership, one who is willing to take responsibility for bad situations and turn it into opportunity, one that supports BOTH of its drivers equally.
Ferrari's main problem seems to be its tendency to lean towards one driver and its poor communication. They seem to have been stumbling in places where they really shouldn't, making rookies mistakes. The most recent example I can think of is Canada 2019 where Ferrari allegedly forgot to tell Leclerc about his teammate's 5-second penalty. Lets not even get started on how bad the tyre strategies have been. Mercedes, on the other hand, is a highly coordinated team with a steady flow of communication between the drivers and the team.
As for 2020, we are still in the early stages of the season which gives Ferrari a chance to do some damage limitation. Not only were their upgrades deemed unworthy but are now being called a mid-field team by many fans. The Styrian Grand Prix saw both the Ferrari cars retiring due to Charles Leclerc's unnecessary and high-risk placement of his car leading to an inevitable crash. This really didn't help that fact that the team were struggling. Both their drivers need to be more vigilant of one and other. This is the time for both drivers to come together as a team and salvage whatever points they can get. The problem with Ferrari is not the drivers rather its the sheer lack of performance and pace. When two top-class drivers label a car "undriveable", you know things are bad.
When things go wrong in Maranello, all hell sets loose. It's almost as if the team doesn't know how to deal with a crisis. What Ferrari need to focus on is understanding and improving the performance of their car.
Does Ferrari require new leadership?
Ferrari has had a long history of sacking its team principals. So it was no surprise when Italian media, Corriere della Sera reported that Ferrari GT boss Antonello Coletta has become a potential replacement for current team principal Mattia Binotto. While Binotto's first year saw nine poles, three victories and runners-up to Mercedes, 2020 hasn't gone the right way. It fact things have taken a turn for the worse. Ferrari requires strong leadership, one who is willing to take responsibility for bad situations and turn it into opportunity, one that supports BOTH of its drivers equally.
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