F1 – The end of excuses for Ferrari

December 2021, last Grand Prix of the season in Abu Dhabi. Laurent Mékiès, sports director of the Team Ferrari welcomes us to discuss the season which is ending and the one which is looming. “ As a group, when you go through very difficult times, you stick together despite everything and leave the weakest points behind you, energy can only be positive, he explains, taking a seat around the table. Despite the limitation of the regulations, we have managed to get back on track, and if we continue to work as we have been able to do over the last few months, this will allow us to bring the team back to the right place. We are excited by the challenge, but certainly not blinded. We have put in a lot of work and are excited to see where we are. What if we've been there before? Yes. Are we apprehensive? No. We are aware of the value of opposition, and no one in Maranello thinks it's going to be easy! » If the speech is voluntary, this time it needs to be supported, because in recent seasons, Scuderia Ferrari has too often sung its refrain about victory at gunpoint for it to be taken up in chorus. Ferrari has not been this blackmailer who sets the tempo for some time now. The metronome is racing, and even if the French manager sees 2021 as a unifying exercise and a harbinger of better days, the hiccups have followed one another sufficiently in Maranello to justify putting it into perspective and going back to the source of the problems: the Great Bahrain Prize 2019.

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