The F1 calendar proposes the Barcelona Grand Prix in Spain at Montmelò, a key race because it is the traditional venue for the debut of important evolutionary packages by the stables. Winning in Catalonia means being able to count on a project capable of proving to be competitive on all tracks and is the goal of Ferrari after the ‘technical’ defeats collected at Imola and Miami, where Red Bull – albeit slightly – was overall more performing over the race distance, especially with medium tires.
Right in Barcelona in the first pre-testing session, with headlights offthe Scuderia di Maranello had found the feedback it hoped for from F1-75, an ambitious and courageous project on which the men under the orders of Mattia Binotto worked hard for a long time to respond to the appeal of the new technical regulation that debuted in 2022 . Ferrari and Red Bull have chosen opposing philosophies when designing, with the technicians from Maranello and Milton Keynes amazed at how two single-seaters as poles apart as the F1-75 and the RB-18 prove to be so close on the track at every appointment. .
Ferrari has focused on downforce, Red Bull on efficiency to have excellent top speed on the straights. The latest comparison in Miami, however, highlighted a trend that was hardly predictable, namely that Red Bull made a difference in slow corners below 100 km / h, while Ferrari was excellent in the fast turns like 5, 6 and 7, it is no coincidence that Max Verstappen made his mistake in the second run of Q3 in an attempt to limit the damage at the point where Leclerc and Sainz were consistently faster than him.
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner also confirmed that in view of Barcelona Red Bull expects a Ferrari ready to be brilliant in the fast corners regardless of the upgrade package they have been working on at Maranello since the start of the season. “Ferrari in Barcelona will be very strong in the fast corners3 and 9 in particular “ the words of the team principal of the Milton Keynes team reported by the German newspaper Auto Motor und Sport. Based on the data from the last few races, Red Bull will have to respond in the straight and in the third sector, which in the past had put the 2019 Ferrari, the SF90, in great difficulty. Now the Red, however, has its strong point in the aerodynamic load, while the Red Bull has chosen the path of efficiency. We will see if the developments will once again overturn the premises of the eve in a championship in which every prediction, for now, has often been denied.
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