Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne says he anticipates that the group will enhance one year from now after a demoralizing end to their 2017 title challenge. Sebastian Vettel was neck-and-neck with inevitable champion Lewis Hamilton until the point that Ferrari’s season imploded in the space of three races in the pre-winter.
Marchionne said the group’s crumple was “humiliating and offensive”. “In 2018 I expect a lot more from the team,” he said. “I have no doubt we will be fighting for the title again.”
Marchionne, talking at Ferrari’s conventional Christmas lunch, said he trusted Vettel had “learned” from his blunders and would not commit similar errors once more. “With a competitive car, the responsibility is his,” he said. “You don’t win four championships if you are not a champion.”
Vettel cost himself basic focuses by purposely crashing into Hamilton behind the wellbeing car at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix and after that by setting off a multi-car heap up toward the begin in Singapore that took out both Ferraris.
Marchionne included that Vettel was “exceptionally enthusiastic” and portrayed his blunders as “like the fouls of an extraordinary footballer who is experiencing tension”.
Marchionne additionally portrayed Mercedes’ recovery after the mid year break, when Hamilton went on a keep running of five wins and a moment put in six races, as “an aggravation”.
Furthermore, he disclosed that notwithstanding the motor issues that cost Vettel focuses in Malaysia and Japan, the group had additionally had issues with the last improvement made arrangements for the power-unit, which never made it to the track. He added: “We can settle the accounts in 2018.”
“We are not interested in making cars all the same and simple and cheap engines like Nascar,” Marchionne added. “If anything, the real problem is that there is no overtaking and F1 needs more exciting races.”
Ferrari’s 2018 F1 car will be uncovered online on 22 February.
The car will then be taken to the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya for a ‘recording day’, on which mileage is constrained by direction, before the official begin of pre-season testing on 26 February.
