“I don’t need to remind them” : Mattia Binotto sets forward a clear objective for Ferrari in 2022

“I don’t need to remind them” : Mattia Binotto sets forward a clear objective for Ferrari in 2022

Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto

Ferrari has had a fairly positive start to the 2022 season of Formula One. The F1-75 is fast, Leclerc is only nine points behind in the championship, and optimism has been bolstered by the assertion that the very first car-upgrade package presented in Spain last month ended up working as envisioned, putting to rest concerns of a rehashing of 2017 and 2018.

However, there are some concerning indications. Leclerc had a 46-point advantage after three races; in the last four, Verstappen and Red Bull have relished a 55-point turn in their pursuit.

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Verstappen has lost roughly 36 points due to technical difficulties following his retirements from 2nd spot in Bahrain and Australia, whereas Leclerc has lost 45. His own mistake slipped him from third to sixth place in Imola, accompanied by the mechanical failure in Barcelona and the tactic blunder that converted a win into a fourth spot in Monaco.

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Mattia Binotto talks about Ferrari’s objective to be competitive

Mattia Binotto
Mattia Binotto

“We set our objectives to be back competitive in 2022. So our objective is to be competitive, not to win the championship, and it would be completely wrong to turn that into: ‘Let’s try to win the championship because we are so competitive. Being competitive is one fact; becoming world champion is another level of task,” said Mattia Binotto, the team principal of Ferrari.

He went on to discuss how it took them some considerable time to come to this spot after a series of failures and that the work isn’t done yet. Rather, the work has just started which needs consistent efforts from the Maranello-based racing team.

“The ambition is there. Each single person working for Ferrari has the ambition. I don’t think I need to remind them. More important is to let them focus on our process of continuous improvement, so each race is an opportunity for lesson-learned review and to build to do something better. And it is important to stay focused on each single race. We are not looking at the classifications,” concluded the Italian team boss.

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