Why Ferrari is not the force of old
After a succesful year in 2015, with 3 victories and 16 podiums in 19 races, Ferrari seems to struggle in 2016.
The predecessor of SF15-T, has 10 podiums in 17 races with no wins so far, having not fulfilled Marchionne's expectations this year, as the president stated in Monza.
The way that Ferrari is working right now, with these kind of people back at Maranello, doesn't seem that they are capable of providing their two world champions something respectable and get the best out of them.
It might be that Ferrari is just not good enough and they have to accept that they are not the force they once were and they have to move on from their past.
Kimi seems to have made this step. as he wants to add another title with Ferrari all over again from the beginning.Step by step. Perhaps they have to lower their sights a little bit.
Unfortunately, we have kind of used to those kind of performances from Scuderia lately, as the team wasn't capable of providing a podium to both of their drivers with their strategy. Even Red Bull couldn't understand how Ferrari threw out the podium for Vettel,which is a bit of a shame.
We have to rely on Kimi and Seb and not criticizing them at that time, something that Maurizio does pretty often, doesn't he?
What were his words after Malaysia?
"Sebastian has a contract with us," he said. "We work together this year and next year. Then during next year we'll see. Everybody has an objective. I have, the team has, Sebastian has.
So it's right everybody has to earn their position and salary"
But are these words necessary?
Everyone knows that Kimi's and Vettel's difficulties in 2016 have been compounded by a series of technical issues - including grid penalties.
Probably we don't have to put a blame on anyone, but keep our faith in the team.
Neither the President Marchionne, nor the team boss Maurizio have the experience in racing, something that is missed in today's Scuderia Ferrari.
Ferrari goes with expectations at every race, with ambitions for a possible win, even though Red Bull already added 2 wins in 2016.
It's something unapproachable right know, and we know they have tried to do it earlier, but it is so difficult to merge a lot of different key things, starting from strategies, to reliability issues.
Even though 2016 didn't go as planned, Ferrari needs to lower their ambitions for now and work on 2017.
