The Downfall Of Ferrari In F1 

If TD was the issue than why is Ferrari not competitive this season? The TD was lifted for 23. The fact that they have gotten slower than last year when every single team has done the opposite shows the team isn't a top team. Let's not forget Fred hasn't really done anything to show he is doing well. I mean Ferrari since Mattia left has lost 51 technical personnel. No technical director no chassis head. Their chief simulation officer also left early this year. Fred is the problem right now. He can't find anyone willing to join Ferrari right now. It's an open secret that if you want to work in F1 you should go to Ferrari because they will hire anyone they can. In contrast look at Mercedes, look at the culture Toto has built, Mercedes literally has Psychologist working 24/7 to support the team personnel. The fact that Mike had the trust in Toto that he went and asked James to take his CTO role and him become TD. That's the type of confidence you need, James Allison is literally 29 times constructors world champion and Toto snatched him away from Ferrari in 2017 and we have seen ever since the cars he built 17-21. Toto was personally involved in the concept change and he isn't even a technical guy but he trusted his team. Ferrari will never win a championship until Ferrari has a world champion like Lewis or Max and also someone leading the team that the people of Ferrari the company and the people of race team trust

Another thing is that the car is incredibly inconsistent, according to Carlos and Charles. Both of them has said that it behaves differently from lap to lap as well as different tire compounds (which I believe you mentioned)

It actually breaks my heart that in the modern era the mighty Ferrari have become nothing more than meme bait.

Ferrari are punishing their drivers every single race. The two guys are working so had, just for the car or team to interfere with the result they deserve. Really disappointing, for a team with such a great history. You have to feel it for Leclerc last race. He did not deserve that kind of race…worked so hard for measly results. Carlos, not as bad, but still bad…starting second and finishing 5th. Dismal. Way to go Ferrari.

I think their biggest weakness is their floor. I hope they can get it worked out. They need to keep their drivers if they want to have a chance.

C'mon Ben ,open up a membership or donate so I can give you my money. This content is too good to be free

It doesn't matter if it's TD039 or not, that doesn't stop them from screwing up on strategy, reliability or drivers making mistakes, and I hate to say that

Ferrari had the opportunity to finish at least 2nd in the constructors. That is now long gone......and they must not try to blame it on TD-39! This was a directive that was made due to safety issues for the drivers, so must be considered mandatory. They failed in their application of the directive and are just looking for something/someone to point their finger at. Very disappointing, as I had really looked forward to a great season for them. It just seems like they have to find a way to sabotage themselves. Something needs to change, and not just the team principals, as we have our share of them, one after another. Hopefully, Mercedes and Aston will continue to improve their cars so that we can have more competition at the sharper end of the grid. Mercedes especially, seem to have found some performance that they have not had so far. Second and third at the last race is promising. They now just need slightly better qualifying pace and figure out a way to get closer to RB's race pace. Ferrari are a lost cause at the moment. Great video.

Ferrari has super unstable working conditions in their team. My hope is that with Vasseur the team will be on the right track but it just takes time for it to bear fruits. I was expecting it to get worse first before it can get better, i wish the higher ups of Ferrari give Vasseur the chance to stay and have an impact long term. Look at the other teams, they are pretty stable and do not change leading roles like their socks in the morning.

And then the media and some fans want to believe that Lewis would switch to that mess lol

I started watching F1 in '94 when I was 11. Immediately hooked and a Schumacher fan. And then he moved to Ferrari. I had no clue about which team was famous but I knew of Ferrari as I had seen posters of its sports cars. And when Schumacher moved to it, I was so excited. And then I saw a champ slowly build a great team and then dominance from 2000-2004. And since 2007 onwards, it has just been a downfall. Too many changes in management. Just italians instead of the best person for the job. I'd still say that they were on an upward curve from 2017/18. Arrivabene was a good TP and Binotto a good TD. Making Binotto the TP was a bad idea. I said it last year that Ferrari will start its journey back to the midfield and I have been proven right. I have been a Ferrari fan since I was a kid but it is just getting difficult and frankly now I am a RedBull fan. I still like Ferrari but primary team I support now is RedBUll. An energy drinks company has dominated twice in the last 3 regulations.

I would say in 2022 Redbull made a better car through development,From the start Ferrari won bahrain but we should know that redbull had more race pace at that time to max was close to Charles Each and everytime ferrari won in 2022 were through damage limitation of redbull (Silverstone,Austria upgraded package of rb) Redbull made good development throughout season where ferrari couldn’t,rb reduced weight of the car,revised sidepods in spa made them faster TD-39 may have affected but I heard in 2023 the rule was removed because ride height was increased Ferrari main issues is only the race pace and couldn’t even fix it from 2022 to 2023 (idk what are they doing in maranello)

Perhaps they need one older more experienced driver. Only options that I see are Hamilton or Alonso both highly unlikely though. Maybe Hulkenberg?

Oh man..where do Ferrari's problems begin and where do they end? I started watching F1 in 1991, when Ferrari experienced a massive backslide relative to first the Mclarens, then the all-conquering Williams and finally the Benetton team. After years of producing semi-competitive cars, the Ferrari at the helm of Alain Prost came within a race of potentially winning the 1990 world championship. A year later, Prost was sacked for political reasons after failing to win a single race. The downslide hit its nadir in 92/93 when the team failed to record a single win and had to settle for rare podium finish. With the arrival of Jean Todt, however, things started to pick up. Berger won a race in 94 and Alesi won scored his maiden win in Montreal in 1995. With Schumacher's arrival also came Ross Brawn and Rory Byrne. After 4 more years of painful misses, Ferrari and Schumacher finally ended the 21 year drought in 2000, likewise ushering an era of unprecedented dominance. But every era has an end. With first Todt departing, Schumacher retiring in 2006 and Ross Brawn eventually leaving Ferrari, the Italian team was slowly but surely beginning to slide back. Raikkonen won a surprise championship in 2007 and Massa lost the 2008 race for the title by virtue of half a lap. The 2009 season marked an epochal shift in the wake of which Ferrari has never been able to regain the top spot ever since. They came close with Alonso in 2010 and once more in 2012 and even Vettel for some time looked capable of bringing a world championship back to Maranello. But in reality the last 14 years have been the same kind of misses and the same kind of peripherally competitive cars as Ferrari had produced in the 80's. So yeah, don't be surprised if it will take another 10 years before glory comes back to the Ferrari team. Right now, I don't see it happening and a single technical directive is not to blame for it.

When the budget cap was announced Ferrari split their engineering team in half. One side went to Le Mans. The other to F1. We can clearly see where the capable people went.

Unnecessary involvement from Parent Company is the prime reason for instability at scuderia ferrari. Look MB , RB they are also Big teams . But neither Daimler Benz Nor RedBull pressurise their Drivers/Team to this extent , that whatever they do they do with that much of fear & Pressure. Plus the pressure from Sponsers / F1st Biggest Fan base / Media everything make it more & More Toxic . For Every single mistakes they make the Team Principal & No 1 Driver as Scapegoats ,Rather than going for correction of the Downfall. They should learn from RB & MB about how to Run a Team.

I'm a DTS convert, Ferrari has been all talk and no action since 2018.

The main issue is definitely within the team, not the drivers not the cars and not the team principle, I'm not 100% but i think the issue is that theres a lot of small places that things arent right so they are having a knock on effect to everything else.

2022 was a luckily fastest Ferrari car and they fked it up with strategic direction.

Why all the shock and amazement at Ferrari’s failure in F1? They have a history of it; they wasted Alonso and Vettel. Go all the way back to Lauda where he stated that when he came to Ferrari he thought that with all the money and facilities Ferrari had they should win every race! Well how has that worked out for them over the years?

They can't field two drivers who haven't tasted a title campaign. You need a Fernando, Lewis, Max, Nico, Massa, any guy who has had to fight. You can't have a sainz or leclerc who are still in entitlement mentality and making mistakes etc etc.

The problem we have at Ferrari this Year is Race pace is shocking and Tyre degradation is really poor I have been supporting the Team since the early 2000s and it makes me sad the Team don’t have the standards to not win Championships anymore

I think Ferrari got really slow after Mercedes complained about the flexing floors blaming RB for cheating and the FIA said the floors that were flexing had to be changed. Well since then only Ferrari got a lot slower.

Listening to team radio's via F1TV and seeing all the interviews, I feel like Ferrari are incapable of being honest with themselves and diving deep into how they operate. At Red Bull you see an amicable vibe where creativity can shine, Mercedes try to find the personal strength in every person, and Ferrari sounds like they are just a behemoth trying to fit every person into their brand ideal and system. Listening to the way they talk, it sounds like a choking environment where it's not possible to keep up with these dynamic and rapid changing times. Comparing that to Mercedes and especially Red Bull; those teams sound like they have a work culture where people are capable of finding weaknesses and opportunities, and acting on them. Ferrari feels like a naive child acting big sometimes.

Communication at Ferrari is still a big issue. They fucking send both drivers out when they can impede each other. Its not like Carlos wants to block Charles or Charles wants to ruin Carlos' lap, but we saw instances of this in Monaco, Australia, Miami and a bit in Spain too. They end up tripping over each other a lot which causes unnecessary friction between the drivers. "Come on Carlos", "Don't put me behind Carlos when he is slowing down stupidly"' "Oh come on Charles, he fucked my lap"; these are the comments youu can hear on the radio at all times, be that in qualifying or free practice.

The Ferrari driver’s have no respect at all, especially sainz, look what happened in Canada!!

ferrari new upgrades is just trading off their cornering speed for top speed. Isn't much of an upgrade. They basically haven't improved a single bit since the beginning of last year,

On point, as always!

As far as I know Leclerc didn't get the upgrades in Spain only Sainz.

Ferrari has been the shadow of itself these past years!! Charles Leclerc stucks, just fired him. I remembered the good old days when I was a kid it was the Mercedes team of today, people just loved them always on P3 and drivers had personalities!!! Seems like their leader doesn’t care and has an attitude in interviews like their poor performances are not a big deal cause he wants to resign Charles Leclerc. I am like 😳 at this point Ferrari needs to leave f1, shame🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Ferrari continually falling apart. I love to see it. Sucks that Charles and Carlos have to drive such a finicky car.

Why would SLH switch to Ferrari🤔🤔🤔😒😒🤨🤨🤫

Which is worse? Their drivers, or their car?

I've been waiting since 2007 (08 doesn't count) I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR 16 YEEEEEAAAAAARS!!! But I'm ok, it's not affecting me THAT MUCHHHHHHHHHHH

Ferrari is Williams 2.0

Our cars are bad and unsafe...make theirs worse...

Blaming TD039 for their downfall in performance is quite stupid. Their problem is structural and needs bigger changes, like a new strategy that doesn't get fucked up. Vasseur has here a bigger homework problem that he needs to figure out before making Ferrari a winning team again.

It's the mystery of Ferrari. I became a fan of theirs in 2010. Even back then it was confusing. They had an amazing legacy. They could bring in some of the best drivers in the world... Yet no matter what... They can't win. There's something deeply wrong with their F1 system, and I gave up on them a while ago.

At this rate, obviously Ferrari is intentionally bottlilng their drivers to create more headlines, more publicity == marketing gainz

ferrari is not ferrari anymore it has lost the winning instinct and the will to innovate and challenge the fast cars it just same old from 10 plus years

They need Sebastian back

In my opinion they don’t have exceptional drivers . The current drivers are inconsistent to say the least

You were saying?

For all their alphabetical choices in strategic plans they only seem to have a plan A when it comes to the car itself. Considering the fear factor that rears it's ugly head again with the new higher ups and their lack of skilled technical staff there is not much that Fred or the drivers can do this year but sit it out. If they can sort their pitstops surely they can agree to a plan A/B and stick with it. And for God sakes, listen to your drivers for ones.

Great video 👍

Ferrari, McLaren and Williams 😂😂

I don’t get the ‘allure’ of Ferrari, yes they make nice cars but take Schumacher’s stint out the equation and they’ve been so hit and miss since the late 70’s. Charles needs to leave otherwise he’s gonna waste his career

You’re missing one thing. Technical directives and all regulations talks is only when it’s threatening redbull. If mclaren or Williams makes a revolutionary step nobody cares. That in itself is suspicious. There is no point comparing a team to redbull. Apart from redbull, teams want to actually learn to become better. Not cheat. But, deaf mans ears

It's just another team in f1,that's what ferrari has become for a decade

Why they stopped the 2022 car design.... I think it is a better car

P1

Ferrari has been a joke for years.

Amazing video mate you have criminally low subscribers!

Leclerc will never become a world champion. His race in Spain showed the average driver he is. His times on hard tires were nit bad at all. He kept on complaining that his car was slow. Finally they decide to change to soft tires, and he got even worse. He blames it on the tires, but it was simply himself who was really doing badly.

It's because of Hamilton 2017 didn't happen for Ferrari

Sacking binotta was a mistake. That's the crux of the matter. It was an emotional naive decision

Let's be real. This TD may have hurt Ferrari, but they've had fundamental problems plaguing them for years.

Carlos Sainz should be glad that he ain’t with McLaren.

Chad

Ferrari is Finished Plain and Simple

Minute silence for Matt Gallagher p1

The Italian maffia need to do away with Binotto (im joking btw). I just mean fire him man, the SF23 is a good car but Ferrari manage make me want to flip tables and break computers.

Chad