Formula 1 is year zero

Carlos Sainz, Charles Leclerc and the Ferrari F1-75: the cover of the new Sportweek is tinged with red. And it could not have been otherwise because the Formula 1 World Championship is at the start and the expectation for the new Red is great, as has not happened for years. On Sunday, at the end of the first Grand Prix of the season, in Bahrain, we will know if the “Faith” in Ferrari is well placed. Meanwhile, it is worth reading the exclusive interview with Carlos Sainz. The Spanish driver talks about the unique emotion (“which cannot be explained …”) of being behind the wheel of a legendary car, the impatience to see the new single-seaters at work and also the relationship with his father, Carlo Sainz Sr. “He helped me a lot, but he was also a very bad father, very hard on me.”

The history of Ferrari spans 75 years. To retrace it, we went to the Museo del Cavallino and we were accompanied by the vice president of the team Piero Ferrari, son of the Drake: “We have produced so many successful cars that I don’t even know how many there are”. He chose the 5 most beautiful for us, his unquestionable judgment: from the legendary 125 S to the hybrid SF90 Stradale that he himself drives, passing through Schumacher’s F1-2000: “A car that was a revolution…”.

Formula 1 is year zero, what world championship will it be? Will the revolution in regulation, intended to increase the show, meet expectations? Will it serve to change the consolidated hierarchies? So many questions we try to answer. The only certainties are that Hamilton will try in every way to recover the title, which for him would be the eighth, and thus become the most successful ever. And reigning champion Verstappen will certainly not let him go easily. From him to the latest Magnussen, the Sportweek World Special is an insert to keep to discover the drivers and their teams, the cards, the predictions, the news and the votes of a World Championship to be experienced live on Sky and, for five Grands Prix, also free to air on TV8. Start your engines!