The Formula 1 of 2022 will change the panorama known until now. Mercedes’ era of dominance could have come to an end after eight years of absolute control of the brand being interrupted in the last season by Red Bull and Max Verstappen. The effort involved in the fight for that 2021 championship should take its toll on both teams facing a new season where their rivals have been working for many months and allocating almost all their resources, unlike the Germans and Austrians.
The presentations, although until the cars roll this week in the preseason in Montmeló we will know little or nothing for sure. The fact is that everyone talks wonderfully about a Ferrari that aims to return through the big door after adding a drought of 46 races without a winspecifically since the 2019 Singapore Grand Prix. In this particular journey through the desert, the Italians have worked hard in their F1-75 model to become the favorites of the whole world.
Ferrari was at serious risk of breaking its negative record in Formula 1 of having this 59 races without winning, but everything points to that Carlos SainzThe truth is that the renewed rear suspension, as well as an aggressive design full of fins, have filled the transalpine parish with hope to such an extent that they believe that it may be the year of change. On the other hand, no one doubts that the strength of this team, the engine, will perform at the highest level from the start.
remains to be seen yet some teams like Fernando Alonso’s Alpine, but the general feeling is that Ferrari has done a great job with a radically different car from its rivals. Surely many of them are already working against the clock to replicate some of the innovations that this single-seater has presented. It must be remembered that in 2009, in another year of change of rules, Brawn GP broke the World Championship with the double diffuser that was later copied all over the world.
“I’m not afraid to fight for victories, it’s my dream in F1. It’s something I’m looking forward to, for which I work every day. Only in Monaco 2021 was I able to fight for a pole position and a victory, the first time in my career, and I loved it. I feel that if the challenge comes tomorrow, I’m ready and we’re going to give our best”, says Carlos Sainz who could break a Spanish drought of victories that has lasted since the 2013 Spanish Grand Prix. That day Fernando Alonso won and on horseback a Ferrari Who knows if almost a decade later history may repeat itself.