Ferrari Formula 1 team has suggested that its 2022 F1 car and engine will manifest “a lot of innovation”. The team tends to get regain its lost position in F1 at the front row.
The Italian manufacturer had faced scarce F1 seasons in recent years. However, it recovered from sixth position on constructors championship in 2020 to third in 2021.
McLaren and Ferrari fought for the third position over the whole season. While Mercedes and Red Bull remained neck to neck for the first position.
Ferrari is optimistic about its revival in 2022 as new regulations will set in for the sport. The Italian outfit hopes to exploit this opportunity and revive its team to the top of the teams.
Mattia Binotto, Ferrari team principal, apprised that new regulations has helped the team to opt for new ideas. It has helped the team to push its boundaries and produce new car for the next year.
The team will launch its new car in February 2022 just before the start of pre-season testing in Barcelona.
“If I look at the 2022 car, and the 2022 power unit, believe me there is a lot of innovation in it,” he explained.
“I think that the way that the entire engineering team has faced the new design, the new project. And the 2022 regulations, which were a big discontinuity, was certainly with a more open mind than before.
“I can myself measure it by looking at the car itself, the way it’s progressing, and certainly with the amount of innovation we put in it.”
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Binotto responded to the question regarding innovations he has referred to. He explained that the focus was on the internal combustion engine and on the improvement of the chassis components.
“On the power unit, it is significantly different to the current one except the hybrid,” he said.
“For the hybrid, we introduced it in 2021, as we anticipated what would have been the 2022 rules.
“There will be some changes to the hybrid system for 2022. First for regulations, because more sensors are required from the FIA in all the systems for better policing. But the overall system is very similar to the one we’ve got and the one we raced at the end of the season.
“But the rest, especially on the internal combustion engine, I have to say is significantly different. We’ve got a new fuel, which is the 10 percent ethanol, which somehow changed a lot the combustion.
“We are all losing more or less 20 horsepower, which means somehow that the combustion itself is quite changed. So there were a lot of opportunities in development on the power unit and we changed it quite a lot.”
