F1 | Ferrari: the Barcelona engine is back and life is extended at the counter

Ferrari is working on the test bench to bring the 066/7 power unit to a life of almost 6,000 kilometers. The Cavallino team is committed to hard work in search of the reliability that is still missing to think of facing the 2022 season with only three engines, given that the calendar offers 22 world championship events and each unit will theoretically have to perform 7 GPs.

In the tests in Bahrain that will start tomorrow, the Scuderia will bring the same engine that was used without problems in the three days of testing in Barcelona where it passed the 2,000 kilometers brilliantly.

Charles Leclerc, Ferrari F1-75

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The hot session in Sakhir will be very important to verify on the track, rather than on the bench, any weak points in view of next week’s seasonal debut, with the FIA homologated engines and which will have to last frozen until the end of 2025.

Obviously, in Maranello they focused on performance with the courageous solutions introduced in the “Superfast” by engineer Wolf Zimmermann, knowing full well that the regulation allows you to work on reliability.

The tests that will begin tomorrow will have to give convincing answers, given that the three Spanish days of Montmelò were mainly used to verify the data and to correlate with simulation systems. Now you don’t mess around anymore and the cars will have to show their true potential and the time to play hide and seek is over: whoever has aces to play must put them on the table.

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Ferrari, in addition to a useful change to prevent porpoising, should not bring big news, trying to fathom the potential of the F1-75 both in the flying lap and in the race simulation.

Mattia Binotto, team principal of the Cavallino, is perfectly aware of this: “In Barcelona, in the first test session, the idea was to collect data and try to understand the car, while when we are in Bahrain, and we will be very close to the first race of the season, I think we will all have to get the most out of the single-seaters with qualifying laps and race simulations. And we will have clearer ideas about the values on the field “.