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[Rassegna stampa] – Ferrari arrives at Monza and goes from the glare of 2019 to the expectation of a possible defeat in 2020: between FIA decisions, investigations, pandemics, failed renewals and technical choices that today are highly criticized.
“It’s been a year. It seems like a century! Twelve months ago, Ferrari filled Milan’s Piazza Duomo. An uproar of crowds for what appeared to be the dawn of a Red Renaissance. The very young Leclerc had just won in Belgium and was preparing to give an encore at Monza. It is a miracle to be greeted with joy by the regularity of the Italian Grand Prix, despite the pandemic. There is a lot of tricolor pride in the event, enhanced by the presence in the stands of doctors and nurses. Too bad he’s absent … Red. It is useless to surround him, in this melancholic search for lost time. Never, at least in its recent history, has the Horse been so limp and resigned to the appointment that it was once worth nearly a season. The Cavallino, here, has stopped neighing. Bray. Outside the park, heartbroken fans roam with posters expressing national popular disappointment. Everything is terribly difficult for the people of Ferrari. Even putting off any hope of redemption until 2022 was not a stroke of genius, in terms of communication. Perhaps, in qualifying settings at least, a little help could come from the FIA’s decision to ban changes to the engine mapping between practice and race. Nothing shocking, but it has always been argued that the famous “magic button” guaranteed Hamilton and Bottas an expansion of the already very clear advantage over the competition. Frankly, I don’t think much of it, but it’s true that Ferrari is in such bad shape that any engine change won’t hurt.“.
Leo Turrini, The rest of the Pug
“The faces of the fans on Sunday will be displayed in the stands in the form of cards and among them will also be that of Charles Leclerc, who took a photo and bought his seat online to be among the “virtual” people of the redhead. . Last lair, in the stands of Monza, was also the mother, to whom the Ferrari driver could not find a pass. Twelve months have passed since the Italian triumph of the Little Prince and, in the meantime, the world has been turned upside down. The most iconic F1 race track is empty, waiting for the engines to start today, without the crowd. It has never been seen in all of history, it occurs in the year of the pandemic and the Ferrari crisis, close to its 1000 GP at the worst moment. A large Prancing Horse emblem was placed in front of the fastball by some diehards, symbolizing a passion stronger than all, but it really takes faith to hope for a resurrection at home. Maranello engineers have adopted a very “unloaded” wing configuration on the SF1000 in an attempt to regain some speed on the straights. The Monza conformation allows this, having a guided part, between the two Lesmo curves and the Parabolica, which is less demanding than the Spa mix, where a lot of downforce is required instead. But this will mean a nervous and docile machine, like 2019, when Vettel spun Ascari. It will be the last Monza in red, for the 4-time world champion: «The current difficulties do not cancel out the emotions I experienced. I want to be sure to get out of the car at the end of the season, knowing that I have given everything. Former President Luca di Montezemolo, in an interview with German television, took the opportunity to take a little revenge, knocking down his successor Sergio Marchionne, who died in the summer of 2018: “Those who ran Ferrari after me had no competition. It was a big mistake to fire James Allison. You don’t bring road car technicians to Formula 1, because different skills are needed. Also, you have to hire the best engineers, even if they are foreigners. “It is true that we need big names like in the It was from Ross Brawn and Rory Byrne, who arrived from Benetton with Michael Schumacher. The fact is that Ferrari, with Marchionne, had come to fight for the title in 2017 and 2018 against Mercedes. Perhaps we will have to wait for the regulatory change of 2022 to see it win again“.
Luigi perna, La Gazzetta dello Sport
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