Ferrari has change into the second crew to announce the launch date of its 2023 contender.
Virtually per week after Aston Martin revealed that its automotive will probably be unveiled on Monday February 13, Ferrari confirmed that the wraps will come off its – but to be designated – automotive a day afterward February 14, St Valentine’s Day.
A lot will probably be anticipated from the brand new automotive following the frustration of this season, when the Maranello outfit appeared to seize defeat from the jaws of victory.
Scoring a 1-2 within the season opener in Bahrain, Ferrari scored one other win in Melbourne, however then Purple Bull put collectively a run of six wins whereas its Italian rival suffered all method of calamities by way of reliability, technique and driver errors.
Going into the summer time break, Charles Leclerc insisted that every one was not misplaced, claiming that he might repeat Sebastian Vettel‘s feat from 2013 when he returned from the break and received all 9 remaining races to say the title.
In actual fact, not solely did the Monegasque fail to say one other win he solely made it to the rostrum on three additional events.
At season finish, the Italian crew solely simply having managed to carry off Mercedes and retain second within the standings, such was the clamour from the Italian media that crew boss Mattia Binotto tended his resignation, the crew subsequently recruiting Alfa Romeo’s Frederic Vasseur.
A resurgent Mercedes is simply going so as to add to the stress at Ferrari in 2023, and people followers who keep in mind the lengthy drought by way of titles between 1979 and 2000, will probably be solely too conscious that the Italian crew not often learns from its errors and all too typically makes issues worse by merely ‘rearranging the deckchairs’.
