F1, Canada’s Monday analysis: Ferrari, from illusion to patatrac | FormulaPassion.it

Taken from Caffé#97 by Pino Allievi – FormulaPassion YouTube channel

Let’s face it: we were deluded. After an amazing (as a result) Monte Carlo Grand Prix, we were convinced that from then on Ferrari would be competitive for the entire championship, taking advantage of a Red Bull that has been shattered in its management and undermined in its technical certainties. The defeat suffered by the world champion team in the Principality had been heavy, Verstappen’s lead over Leclerc in the championship had narrowed, a track was about to arrive, that of Montreal, tailor-made for the characteristics of Ferrari and highly treacherous for a Red Bull allergic to curbs.

And instead, precisely in Canada, what shouldn’t have happened, that is, the Ferrari’s patatrac. As painful as it is unexpected and in some way unjustifiable, such as to make one think that the Maranello team, overall, is not yet ripe for certain goals. When no one expected it, an age-old problem emerged, that of tires that don’t warm up immediately and, especially in the wet, make the car undriveable. as seen on the slippery asphalt of qualifying. Between Saturday evening and Sunday we did nothing but go through the previous editions of the Canadian GP to reassure ourselves, in light of the great comebacks by champions and supporting players that have taken place in the past on the island of Notre Dame.

Useless work: Ferrari existed neither in the wet nor in the dry for something related to the set-up and perhaps something else more hidden and less easy to fix quickly. Furthermore, Leclerc’s Power Unit then set about immediately eliminating those who should have aspired to win.

A finish line without the Ferraris not seeing the checkered flag is unusual and disappointing, but it must be accepted as a step in the desert crossing. Red Bull somehow showed Ferrari how it can win a crucial race even in the midst of a management turmoil that is still unresolved. The world champion team was perfect, they didn’t make a single mistake, they made the right decisions in the alternation of wet, dry, humid, with coolness and competence.

And then he had one extraordinary conductor like Max Verstappen, who among the triad of possible winners is the one who made the least mistakes. In the sense that Russell’s errors influenced the result of the reborn Mercedes and Norris’s deprived McLaren – also an accomplice – of a probable victory.

I want to say that Red Bull triumphed with full merit despite perhaps not having the car to succeed in the feat. And Ferrari got into confusion, perhaps due to an excess of confidence after the Monegasque hangover. However, by making mistakes you learn and over a good coffee you can analyze mistakes more clearly and erase them. One after the other, because there really weren’t that few.