Horses are needed
The Miami weekend was clear: the Ferrari SF-26 is a great car, but the engine deficit compared to the Mercedes power unit and also the Red Bull one currently condemns the Maranello team, which in Florida missed the podium for the first time in the GP.
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In Canada, the suffering on paper should continue on a ‘stop&go’ circuit with at least four rather important straight sections, but not all evils come to harm, at least on paper. As highlighted by the publication AutoRacer.it, there is some concern in Ferrari that the FIA may not grant the Maranello team the maximum advantages provided by the ADUO to develop the power unit.
Canada could ‘help’ in this sense to classify Ferrari beyond the 4% delay threshold in a political game in which Toto Wolff has already raised his voice with the aim that the Federation does not give too much ‘leeway’ to Ferrari.
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Anyway, after the FIA verdict Ferrari will be able – how much and how we will find out after Montreal – to intervene on the power unit. When will the new engine debut? According to the Italian publication not before the Belgian GP at Spa, so the engine deficit will remain such still in Canada, Monaco, Spain, Austria, and Great Britain.
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