These have been the phrases utilized by Ferrari staff principal Mattia Binotto after the French Grand Prix.
Vital phrases to assist maintain the motivation of the staff excessive after a nasty race, just like the one at Paul Ricard, by which Charles Leclerc’s crash severely undermined the hopes of the staff to win the championship.
Binotto’s phrases may also be interpreted as a strategy to underline how assured Ferrari are in regards to the power of their automotive and the way decided they’re to improve it, proper till the final race, of their championship struggle in opposition to Crimson Bull.
Because the starting of the season, the engineers directed by Enrico Cardile made a job that has been fairly near perfection with the F1-75.
Thus far, Ferrari’s technicians have introduced environment friendly upgrades to the observe, with the purpose of fixing the weak factors of the automotive.
Developments that, objectively, are reflecting the outcomes seen throughout the simulation, permitting the purple automobiles to struggle, in each race, on the identical degree of the Crimson Bulls.
However, sadly, each effort made by the “males in purple” appears to be ineffective, as a result of a number of episodes (crashes, reliability points, fallacious techniques) are making the Scuderia’s struggle for the championship extraordinarily troublesome.
Again at Maranello, regardless of the damaging components simply uncovered, there is not the desire to surrender. As a substitute, there’s a focus to push laborious on the upgrades to enhance as a lot as doable. Ferrari’s engineers are working flat-out on the F1-75, from the aerodynamics to the engine.
The ability unit is a selected space of focus. In response to what some Italian newspapers reported lately, Binotto’s workers can be able to introduce, a while between the Belgian and Italian Grands Prix, a brand new hybrid improve.
Following the rumours that come from GeS, the brand new MGU-Okay is anticipated after the summer time break. It’s designed to present a larger quantity of power, and energy, to make use of throughout the lap.
It’s a improvement that’s essential to deal with Ferrari’s weak level of prime velocity on the finish of the straights.
In principle, this improvement of the MGU-Okay ought to ship a larger quantity of power all through the lap, and this would offer a two-fold benefit. The primary is elevated traction out of corners – already a robust level of the F1-75 – whereas the second is a prime velocity enhance.
This step of the PU ought to keep away from clipping (a phenomenon that seems on the finish of the straights, when the electrical power is used up and the velocity of the automotive would not improve anymore, even when the throttle is flat out).
Regardless of the well-documented negatives, there stays a terrific need at Maranello to extract the utmost potential from the automotive, not listening to the reliability issues which have appeared to this point.
In response to the engineers, these are issues that would not have a speedy resolution and that, after inside reflections, have led the technicians to favour efficiency over reliability.
Consequently, Ferrari will probably sacrifice two races (on tracks the place it’s simple to overhaul from the again) to take penalties with the intention to set up the up to date model of the PU.
It’s a related technique to the one adopted final 12 months by Mercedes which enabled Lewis Hamilton to struggle Max Verstappen for the world championship till the final lap of the season.