Ferrari bounced back spectacularly last season after having its worst season since 1980 in 2021, finishing third and beating McLaren.
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Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto has stated that no compromises have been made with the Scuderia’s 2022 car in order to achieve long-term success. For the upcoming season, F1 will race to a brand-new set of aerodynamic regulations, with teams designing from a largely blank sheet of paper. Ferrari bounced back spectacularly last season after having its worst season since 1980 in 2021, finishing third and beating McLaren to the best-of-the-rest position after a season-long battle. Last season, F1 reached a budget cap for the first time, with Ferrari opting to halt development early in order to focus on the following year, compromising in 2021 to ensure no compromise in 2022.
“Certainly, we had a big budget, maybe not the biggest,” Binotto said. “But with the financial regulations and the budget cap, we had to cut some of the developments and to cut parts of our organisation. When you’ve got a cap, no doubt you need to limit yourselves.”
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“As Ferrari, as first, we identified 2022 as our top priority, so no compromises have been done in developing the 2022 cars. The reason for putting 2022 as a top priority is, I think, quite straight and obvious. It’s a new era in terms of regulations and more than that I think that knowing that we are behind in terms of team capacity compared to the best competitors this is why it was important for us to really focus on the future and try to do our best for whatever will be our medium or long-term future. That’s why compromised the 2021 [development],” the Ferrari boss added.
Although the aerodynamic regulations have changed over time, the power unit specifications will remain unchanged until 2026, despite Ferrari’s late-season introduction of a new hybrid system.
“We addressed a few issues on car behaviour at the very start, in the first two or three races, but then we stopped completely the development and focused on 2022, except on the power unit, which we introduced in Sochi, Russia as the first development,” added Binotto.
