Ferrari’s 2022 F1 contender, the F1-75, is named to mark the 75th anniversary of the first car to carry the Ferrari name, and carries the hopes it will end their 14-year wait for a world championship trophy.
Like every other car on the grid, the new Ferrari has been designed to meet radically altered regulations. The team ended 2021 on an upward trajectory which it will be eager to continue amid the disruption caused by the switch to a new rules set.
The team was quick to halt work on its 2021 campaign to press ahead with the F1-75. The car revealed on Thursday, which lapped Ferrari’s Fiorano test track the day after, features a number of innovations and shapes which set it apart from the cars that were launched before it by Haas, Aston Martin, McLaren, AlphaTauri and Williams (Red Bull presented a show car).
The team’s head of chassis, Enrico Cardile says that the team has taken an “innovative approach” to the new regulations and has emphasised that “Aerodynamics was…