Briatore lashes out at Ferrari.
Flavio Briatore has harshly criticized the Ferrari team for the continuous mistakes that his compatriots have made during the season, which have made them lose the opportunity to fight for the Formula 1 title with Max Verstappen and keep the emotion in the battle until the end. of course.
Although this season it seemed that Ferrari could finally be in contention for the title for the first time since Fernando Alonso fought for the championship against Sebastian Vettel in 2012, finally the team from Maranello will have to wait at least one more year to conquer the title. long-awaited drivers’ title that they haven’t achieved since 2007.
At the beginning of the course, Charles Leclerc achieved two victories in the first three races that gave hope, but Red Bull knew how to react by solving the reliability problems that had affected them in the first tests and also took a step forward in terms of performance, keys to overtake Ferrari and create an important advantage between the two.
To the good level that Red Bull has shown since April, we must add the continuous mistakes that Ferrari has made at crucial moments at the level of strategy, in the pits and also the serious reliability problems that they have suffered, which have finished throwing away any hope to fight for the title this year.
“It’s amazing to see how Ferrari manages to do well on Saturdays… and it’s amazing how Ferrari manages to screw up every race,” Briatore was quoted as saying by German website F1Insider after the Italian F1 Grand Prix.
In Monza, Charles Leclerc started from pole position, but despite this, the Monegasque could not beat Max Verstappen in the fight for victory… and that the Dutchman started seventh. A risky strategy on the part of Ferrari, which stopped Charles during a Virtual Safety Car in the first laps of the race, together with Verstappen’s great pace, made it impossible for the Monegasque to win.
Ferrari has only converted three of the nine pole positions it has achieved so far this season into victory, reflecting the difficulties of the Maranello-based team in extracting the maximum potential from its car on Sundays.
After the 16 races that have been held this year, and with six to go until the end of the season, the best Ferrari driver in the Drivers’ World Championship is Charles Leclerc, with 116 points less than Max Verstappen. In the Constructors’ World Championship, Ferrari is 139 points behind Red Bull.
