The Maranello-based team has had a strong start to the 2022 campaign, winning two of the first four races as it knuckles down for an intense fight with Red Bull.
But the scale of the challenge it faces was made clear at last weekend’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix when an upgraded Red Bull helped the team dominate – with Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez bringing home a 1-2 finish.
While Ferrari has so far elected not to bring any major developments to its F1 car, it says there is still no rush to do so – with it opting to simply change the downforce configuration for next week’s Miami event.
The long straights of Miami will force teams to run in a lower downforce spec, with there being a big emphasis on top speed on the straights.
With Red Bull having had the edge in the speed traps this year, Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto is aware that his squad needs to deliver in such a configuration now.
Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing RB18, Charles Leclerc, Ferrari F1-75
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Asked if there will be any major update coming for Miami, he said: “No, we will not have the main one in Miami. But still, we will have a few new parts on the car.
“Because Miami is a high-speed circuit compared to the ones we had so far, in terms of downforce, we will run something different compared to what we have.
“Hopefully the level of downforce we bring to Miami, we are quite confident it’s quite an efficient one. But we know as well that Red Bull has got a good medium/low downforce package as well, and they will be competitive.
“It will be a completely new track and new challenge, quite interesting, and I am pretty curious to be there.”
Binotto has also suggested the team will continue to make tweaks to iron out the porpoising problems it is still suffering from.
“We’re still working on the porpoising, that as you can see is quite visible,” he said. “We’ve got it, certainly more than Red Bull, and in there, there’s some performance…
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