[Team] Ferrari: in F1

[chillibowl]

Originally Posted by Richard Casto

You have losts me somewhere in your logic...

Originally Posted by Adam43

I think chilli’s point is that it relatively better for Ferrari if they only have one thing to concentrate on! Or rather you takeaway Merc’s advantage of being able to do more than one thing at once!

Whatever, Ferrari should treat it at an opportunity.

You are probably right though, Merc will have an advantage anyway. Less that they are better at the moment, more that they are just better.

sorry for the delayed response and looking back, for a poorly thought out post.

my underlying premise was much as Adam suggested but clearly written with little thought put into it so will try to expand after the fact.

basically i was just thinking along the lines of them having more time to develop, restructure, new hires etc and, if all goes well, approach 2022 from a stronger position. i believe there is no development freeze for the 2022 chassis and also i am assuming, could be wrong, that until the new concorde agreement is signed they are free to spend as they see fit until then?

if so, then there may be an inherent advantage in shifting to 2022 early.

while it still feels like the start of the season, it is typically around now/summer break where a team that has a poor chassis starts looking to shift development to the following season but in this case the next chassis season is 2022. indeed F1 chassis tend to be more evolutions rather than revolutions, but with new regs coming maybe Ferrari can find a way to take the lead for the next development cycle.

admittedly though, i was just thinking about the chassis side and not the engine.

Originally Posted by Richard Casto

Hopefully they can turn things around for 2022. And while they are likely focused on 2022, I think it's unrealistic to think they are not trying to address issues in the 2020/21 platform.

a fair point. dont think i can dance around that one!