“Ah, I put pressure on the Federation? And when he closes in his office what does he do? “ Like this Toto Wolff responded to Christian Horner’s allegations of lobbying in the path that led the FIA to concert action against porpoising – aerodynamic rebound side effect of the ground effect that mainly affected the Mercedes W13 this season – through two channels, a technical directive that debuted in Spa on the occasion of the Belgian Grand Prix and a compromise on the 2023 regulation which will see the cars in some strategic points of the fund raised by 15 millimeters compared to what is expected in this 2022.
The political arm wrestling between Red Bull and Mercedes already in 2021 it was hot starting from the flexible rear wings, with the Milton Keynes team – and with it many others, including Ferrari – forced to stiffen its wing starting from the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku to meet the new tests required by the FIA. The fight off the track and perpetrated every weekend via radio, increasing the pressure on former race director Michael Masi was no holds barred and even in this 2022 there was no shortage of differences, although Red Bull’s superiority then extinguished potential controversy in the bud.
Luca Cordero di Montezemoloformer Ferrari president, stressed that politics is an aspect to be constantly taken care of in F1, a conduct that is one of the many ways to protect one’s men and their work. “In this sport you need passion and dedication. You have to be there every day and every evening. You have to do a lot of politics to support your team, because others do. You have to be strong to resist and preserve your team “the words of Montezemolo interviewed by the French sports newspaper L’Equipean exhortation by the former President at the top of Ferrari not to neglect the ‘button rooms’ where decisions are often made that are capable of altering the fate of a season or a regulatory cycle.
In this season Mattia Binotto stressed that from a protocol point of view the directive against porpoising followed an unconventional process – the FIA’s safety card was played to bypass the need to have practically unanimity of the teams before endorsing a regulatory change – while with regard to the new technical and financial regulation of the 2026 power units, the compromise between incentives for newcomers and recognition for those who have always raced in F1 like Ferrari was acceptable.
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