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Ferrari awaits the ‘new’ power unit
At the end of the Japanese GP, both Frederic Vasseur and Charles Leclerc emphasized that in some ways another championship will begin in Miami with cars that will change significantly due to a full month’s break to work on updates, but at the same time, what is currently the factor generating a large difference between Mercedes and Ferrari, namely the power unit, cannot yet change.
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Interviewed by Sky, however, Andrea Kimi Antonelli anticipated that this ‘stasis’ at the power unit level is destined to be short-lived because the ADUO will soon intervene, the system designed to give engine manufacturers with a performance deficit the opportunity to close the gap with the reference engine on the starting grid.
On paper, according to the regulations, the ‘checkpoint’ is scheduled after the first six races, in this case four because the cancellation of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia did not push back the first ‘adjustment’ of the ADUO, but Antonelli stated that Ferrari – and consequently the other engine manufacturers as well – have already received the okay on the ADUO.
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What Antonelli said
“I know there will be big changes – said Antonelli – also the ADUO that has been granted to Ferrari, for example, which will allow them to develop the engine. They will certainly get very close, because their car is fast anyway, and so if they also manage to improve the engine, they will get even closer. But I’m not too worried; in the end, once I get on the track, I’ll think about doing what I’ve done in past weekends, which is trying to go as fast as possible, focusing on myself and focusing on what I have to do, on the goal set for each weekend. Then I’m sure that we will also bring quite significant updates: the car is already fast and there’s a good dynamic in the team, so I’m not too worried, but I’m aware that the other teams will catch up sooner or later”.
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