What's going on with Ferrari? 

When xavi told Leclerc "Good job, that's P7", that's when I lost all hope. Even leclerc was so frustrated on getting just a P7 but being told that finishing at P7 is "good job", that's a new low.

From where Ferrari and McLaren started these regs, Ferrari should be truly embarrassed that McLaren seem to be quicker than them now

I am a Ferrari fan and it is really painful to see all those struggles on and off track

It’s so obvious that leclerc is getting so impatient with them at this stage. Carlos sainz seems to be dictating the strategies himself at this stage after the mess ups

Vasseur was the first team principal promoted outside of the house since Jean Todt and to me that summarises Ferrari's problem. They recruit lot of their staff locally from Italy and promote them in-house, which is good in a sense, but it tends to create insular culture that makes it difficult to acknowledge mistakes and shortcomings. They need to bring in more new blood who can set benchmark for how things are done in other teams. And not just at the top level of designers or engineers, but also on operations side. Ferrari did have a competitive car last year and I'm sure they can design one again, but it's the operational side and race management where they keep falling short the most.

What has always went on with them. Except for when Todt, Brawn and Schumacher had the lead, Ferrari has always struggled to follow others. Even when Enzo was alive. Lauda was right: "all these facilities and you build a piece of crap like this"

Easy. Carlos is looking after himself and Charles is pleading for some good luck. It doesn't feel like a cohesive team. It's every person for themselves there.

It's also so weird that Ferrari now have about a season and a half worth of experience in fighting at the front, but still they seem to make worse strategy calls than both McLaren and Aston Martin who've just recently jumped up to this position. Ofc that's without mentioning that those teams were even able to jump them in the first place.

Lots of problems: -Drivers arguing with engineers and strategists -Ignoring orders -Pitwall seems to doubt it's own decisions -Several terrible strategy decisions(Becoming a meme at this point.) -Several bad pit stops for such a high tier team -A seemingly inconsistent performing car And I wouldn't say either driver has had a string of amazing performances, it can't all be blamed on the cars. All this combined hurts the entire team and atmosphere, which I think hurts morale and cohesion. And of course this translates to the results.

Imagine watching this video last year at the exact same date, we wouldn't see the difference.

Ferrari really blew it last year, that was their best chance for a title this decade. Lets not forget; their 2 rivals Mercedes and RB were fighting the 2021 title until the last race - while they began developing their car half way through the year for the new regs..... For me since I been watching F1 since the 90s, Ferrari are reverting back to the Ferrari pre-schumacher-brawn-todt. They gonna go through some barren years. And Leclerc reminds me alot of Alesi :(

Two things, their inconsistency and poor race execution can’t give the crew any confidence going into the next one. We all know what it’s like to focus 110% at not making mistakes the second time, but we lose focus on the bigger picture and end up making a bigger mess. Secondly, I fear it could be an Italian culture thing, or they rest on their laurels a bit too much sometimes. I don’t the car is a mile off, them, Merc and Aston have been trading 2nd fastest car many times this year. I pray for the next race at Spa, they can put together a good weekend, which will give them a confidence boost going into the summer break, then keep it up for the rest of the year. Leclerc’s contract expires next year and all the love for Ferrari in the world, will likely not be stronger than the urge to get into more promising machinery. They are lucky Leclerc loves the team and the brand as much as he does.

As a ferrari fan, I trully doesn't believe on Leclerc's title anymore, not because he isn't a champion material driver, but because the team itself broke all his hopes. We can see his face on all iterviews, he is always on shame... It is very sad, cause as more recent f1 fan, I always thought that I would see Charles get the championship back to ferrari as Verstappen did to Redbull... Now I can only see ferrari winning a Championship on a distant future with Verstappen trying to emulate a Schumacher thing. About Leclerc, I really think he must leave the team at the end of his contract. I hope he gets on better mood with Mercedes or Aston Martin so...

Me thinks it started when they decided to ditch Binotto, nothing against Vasseur, but the teams issues didnt lie with Binotto, it was basically everywhere else and now those issues are coming back to bite them harder

With change in management, design and engineering that they are doing now, it will probably take another year for actual results to kick in. This is all assuming Fred gets it right.

The issues of Ferrari can be summarized by 2 things. Disconnected slow bureaucracy and trying to exclusively hire Italians for outward appearing positions

I agree with you, as a Ferrari fan, I have started to lose hope, and am using Daniel Ricciardo as a way to cope.

Never clicked this fast on a ferrari title

It-s funny that RedBull, as brutal as they are with their drivers, they've really stuck with the management team whereas Ferrari are the opposite

I couldn't believe the level of disrespect that LeClerc's engineer showed him over the radio during the race.

Ferrari is a team that has always thrived off of experience. when you look back to the Schumacher Era you see they had Schumacher and Barrichello who had Hundreds of races under the belts, Jean Todt, Ross Brawn and many others who have had experience. Now they have two kinda experienced drivers and a less experienced staff. they have the attributes of a midfield team with the backing of a front runner

I feel the most Ferrari thing seems to be 'not learning from mistakes'. It truly feels like there is a cultural issue in the whole organisation holding them back from improving as a whole.

If depression was an F1 Team it would be Ferrari. Fred isn’t to blame at all right now but he definitely needs to figure out what to do rather soon. I see neither Carlos nor Charles keeping up with that for much longer.

This "team" doesn't act in any way, shape or form like a team. It's a disjointed mess. Carlos is obsessed with beating Charles and doesn't trust his engineer. Charles overdrives the car and doesn't trust his engineer either. The race engineers seem to be having aneurysms every Grand Prix. The aero and vehicle dynamic engineers don't seem to understand the car. And only God knows what upper management is doing.

Its weird to see Ferrari go from having the second fastest car on the grid (possibly the fastest car on the grid when you consider that they got more Pole Positions than Red Bull last year), to being the 4th (possibly now 5th considering the leaps and bounds seemingly McLaren have made) best team on the grid. Its very bleak for Ferrari and its worth noting that both Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz's contracts both expire next season, and its not clear if Leclerc at least will stay.

What's going on with Ferrari? "We'll get back to you"

Ferrari has had a system inefficiency for many years now, even when they get a challenger they keep bottling it with strategy calls and upper management issues. Too many chefs in the kitchen. They need to give their drivers more freedom both on track and in the strategy game

Previous year they stopped development of F1-75 by mid season and started focusin for 2023 And that was for what ?

Whenever they say "we are checking" I imagine them calling back to Maranello and holding a board meeting to make each decision

This is Binottos Legacy. Designing a car based around the floor mounting loophole which was killed by TD39 has been there undoing. No plan B (ironic). The concept is flawed now. Stopped development early last year to focus on this now flawed concept. Didn't solve the key areas, the front end causing slower understeer, the front suspension. Vasseur cleared out Sanchez and Mekkis. Only hope is to experiment with updates to find out what does and doesn't work.

I think that, they should bring Vettel back, if not as driver at least as race consultant. He has a lot of experience with different teams and it would be nice for him to help bring Ferrari to the top.

Personally, I'm not that disappointed in Ferrari this year as I was in other bad years such as 2020, 2019, 2016 or 2014. And the reason why is that I see this as a rebuilding year for the Scuderia, as Fred Vasseur just arrived and is making lots of changes in order to build back Ferrari to where they should be, hopefully for next year but if not possible, for 2025 at the latest. Of course there are plenty of things that are still awful, such as the strategy team or Leclerc's luck and reliability this year; but they have what in my opinion is the best driver lineup on the grid (up there with Mercedes'), and even with the salary cap being in place they still have one of the biggest budgets and some of the best infrastructure in Formula One. So if Vasseur's changes end up having the expected results, I totally see them challenging for wins and even titles. Just not this year...

When I saw Vasseur be announced I had a feeling it was just going to continue their struggles. I can’t help be look at Wolff and Horner and see that stability is exceptionally important in F1.

One word. Stubbornness. Ferrari never embraced change. They win, if the regulations suits them. Haven't seen them put effort and win in a regulation where they started poorly, atleast from 2009. Plus the Ferrari politics.

One of the things I notice every race is that the Ferrari pitwall is just so lazy and switch off compared to all the other teams. Every time carlos or charles ask anything I hear "we'll look into it/we are checking". They are always checking. Whilst the other teams do check, we don't hear it as often as ferrari. They need to be absolutely switched on in the race noticing everything

Ferrari has so much pride that when they dig themselves into a hole, they convince themselves it's better to dig through the earth instead of climbing out.

Sergio Perez alone has more points than Ferrari this season 😮‍💨

Ferrari has been struggling sense last year. Once RB18 got to the mineral weight. Redbull has been unstoppable . Ferrari had the best car at the start of 2022. Binettio’s team couldn’t develop the car to keep up with the Redbull. Give Binettio’s team two years and they will give you a fast car

I'm pretty sure that they're going to leave this sport. There is no need to do this anymore. It just hurts the Ferrari brand. And they seem to be competitive on other Race Series, so yeah

How many champion drivers been employed by Ferrari before & since the golden Schumacher era: 1. Vettel 2. Raikonen 3. Alonso 4. Massa 5. Prost 6. Mansell Result: 1 championship win 2007. Conclusion: Its NOT the drivers. The current driver line up should be one of the best.

I feel bad for Leclerc he deserves to be challenging verstappen for the driver championship

The question should be, why the top engineers don’t wanted work for Ferrari now

I think that Ferrari’s main problem is that they are too busy trying to become title contenders immediately, they really want to solve all of their problems at the same time. I think what Ferrari need is to take a step back, to take two steps forward, just focusing on one porblem at a time.

he dont want to be a bad person but the watching experience would be better if you would try to avoid the bumping in to the mic or on the table it is noticable if your focusing on what your saying and a little bit disturbing else great vids ( have noticed you bumping in to the mic in other vids aswell)

Ferrari is just doing what Ferrari does

It is not fair to Vasseur. Almost everything happening this season with the car was decided last season, when Fred wasn't in charge yet. I am excited to see how next year will turn out now that Vasseur has controll over that.

Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things also as Sainz fan I can't wait for next season but as British F1 fan I'm so happy that McLaren are getting and Lando getting back to back podium for first time in his career 😊

I love how the launched an aggressive undercut on their own teammate….. and the failed as Leclerc got the penalty letting Russell jump both of them…. Juts sad

Ferrari used to be good in the early 2000's because they hired the best personnel. These days it's very hard for most to get a job working at Ferrari if they're not Italian, not saying Italians aren't the best for the job, I just mean some good personnel would be overlooked for an Italian

In the first opening stint, Carlos was quicker and had a huge tyre advantage, yet Ferrari didn't swap them around. After the first pitstop, Leclerc got a bit unlucky and ended up losing almost 7 seconds worth track time which he soon made up because he was faster than Carlos. Yet, Ferrari insisted on keeping Sainz ahead. After the second stint in the third one, Leclerc and Sainz had to move together using DRS and tyre management so that they don't get swallowed up by George but Ferrari being Ferrari, let them fight it out and Carlos ended up wasting tyres and losing position to George since he didn't have the backing of Leclerc's DRS and Leclerc tried fighting the 5 second penalty alone by blitzing a gap to Carlos in the early stages and using up all the tyres only to lose position to George after the penalty. The lack of strategic communication between the drivers and the team is visible more than ever and its getting to the point where since sometimes the drivers' pace is evenly matched, they always tell them to hold position when they should make the call to secure the place. Every single time this season when they've told either Carlos or Charles to stay behind the other, they fuck up the second driver and make sure to interfere with the first driver's smooth running as well. Carlos should not be the one making the call that if Checo is about to pass, he would pit. That is the strategist's job and the driver spending time even thinking about these strategies loses his concentration bit by bit. That is the literal reason why a strategist exists, so that they can reduce the load on the drivers. Leclerc really had to tell the team "Lets stay calm", bruh that's something that they have to be. Its normally the drivers who get excited and agitated because of the adrenaline and the team tells them to stay calm. Here, its the other way around. We have seen multiple instances of Xavi dropping the ball and not informing Leclerc when to push and even Sainz telling his engineer to give him the information 'quickly' because they don't have time to fuck around, and the team just fails to realise that. Its a core problem which just a few surface-level personnel changes won't fix. Ferrari is the biggest graveyard of this decade, with millions of hopes and dreams going to die here.

Sadly, Charles and Carlos deserve a better team.

2007 was a very long time ago...

Love your content very much man, keep up the work. Would be nice to see a longer video from time to time, like a short documentary e.g ❤

I do believe its a bit of a transition period because of Fredrick Vasuer. He may be deciding to take another direction and next year we will really see where the team is headed. I just hope they get rid of Inaki Rueda and clean up the pitstop. That 9sec pit for Leclerc should have got some people fired.

I have been a Ferrari fan my entire life because of my dad. My dad first took me to the F1 race in long beach...like.. 198..3? Maybe 84? It depresses me to see my #2 Driver (Peres is my #1), Leclerc struggle so much! He should be a world champion by now. I blame the team, the toxicity, the terrible race tactics and shit choices the team makes when it counts. Not to mention the car (I own a Ferrari), can be a nightmare to deal with. Come on SF! get it together!

As a Ferrari fan, the difference for me between last year and this year is that I;ve stopped hoping for that magical result. It's embarrassing and I worry for or those awesome drivers. The pit radio "please hold" style messages does not fill me with confidence so you can understand why Charles sounded p'd off. Let's hope they are focusing on a magical 24' car...

Whenever I think of the situation at Ferrari it is hard to not put some blame on the drivers. Ferrari is a pretty big seat to fill, much like the second seat at RB. I think many drivers let this pressure get to them, maybe not every weekend but many weekends. I like Leclerc and want to see him do well, but he can't seem to get the most out of the car every weekend. I always wonder what Ferrari's results would look like if Verstappen or Hamilton were driving for them.

Oh the joys of being a Ferrari fan. 35 years now and the prancing horse has broken my heart over and over again. Still here though and no intention of changing. Because when it does come together it’s just glorious. Thank you Schumacher

I'm a bit of a newbie to F1 so forgive me if i'm being ignorant, but why was Fred even appointed? From what I know he didn't exactly perform with alfa romeo previously.

I wouldn't say I'm a Ferrari fan, but last year was fun wondering if Charles or Carlos would be bringing the fight to red bull and there was an early chance for Charles until things unraveled. Max is a machine and very impressive, but it'd be nice of the top teams were all fighting back and forth and swapping top 10 positions (McClaren, Ferrari, Merc, Red Bull, AstonMartin). With McClaren's updates it seems both Alonso's and Ferrari's hopes for the seasons are dashed.

As a Kimi fan, I can’t even mock them anymore. They're just there innit.

This new cost cap era is going to run Ferrari into the Ground They used to be good because they had all the budget and personnel to just throw them at any mistakes that appeared, you cant do that anymore

I don't think Ferrari are capable of understanding and fixing the issues of their cars. It's been a long time since we saw them becoming faster during the season. In 2017 and 2018, most wins were in the first half of the season. Yeah, in 2019, they won everything they did after the summer break, but I think that was due to the engine, not improving the overall car itself. In 2022, it was the same as 2017 and 2018. Even last year, I was sure we would drop behind RB during the season. It seems like what is the speed of the car at the start of the season, that will be the speed during the whole year.

That bright red is always amazing regardless of the time but it pains me how far they have dropped. Instead of a 8th Lewis I really hope we get a complete team for Ferrari.

Ferrari sacked the wrong person then 🤣🤣🤣

Not just the team its the mentality that needs to change. What made Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher winners because of their mentality and their thirst to be at the top. They constantly stayed back and worked on the car alongside engineers there was no time to rest. Guess what after silverstone, charles leclerc goes and watches wimbledon!! Thats the problem they dont bother looking whats wrong with the car. Leclerc is a great driver but his mentality needs to change.

cost cap really hurting them I think. always had the biggest or 2nd biggest budget on the grid- essentially endless pockets and now they don't and they struggle

This is how I see it as well. This season should be used to learn from it and do better next year. It sucks majorly but I also don't think the drivers are the problem. I also believe due to the issues with the car, we have these weird strategies (or lack of) to be honest. It's also interesting to compare to AM; they were great at the beginning of the season and have now fallen off a bit. Btw a really level-headed analysis from a Ferrari fan. I really like that you don't shit on the drivers.

From what I've heard, Binotto tried changing too many things at once, so they didn't know what was working and what wasn't. Also, it seems that they don't have a good strategy team--maybe they switch the strategy team up every couple of races. So, instead of letting a set team learning from their mistakes, they get new people who go through the same mistakes as their predecessors.

Ferrari...... the Dallas cowboys of formula 1

Im suprised you didn’t mention about the engineers Xavi and Mekkies they should’ve have been kicked out already, not only Binotto. Ferarri really needs a clean sweep and some new fresh talent in their team. I’m a alonso fan but it makes me sad seeing a brand like Ferrari going down like this in F1

As a long time mclaren fan I do feel for ferrari fans. Given where mclaren has been we do understand, to make things worse that 70 point gap won't last much longer.

They should not have changed Binotto! Even Arrivabene back then. Both created created great, front running teams and needed consistency of principals who were getting them near the front. Vasseur will take them backwards

Ferrari this year remind me of that me from the simpsons where the guy keeps stepping on rakes and hitting himself in the face.

Ferrari is slowly becoming Alpine, sometimes they're there in the fight but it's no surprise if more drama and chaos unfolds on them

Great video! Saying what all us Tifosi think right now!..

Love your aesthetic choices. All the graphics look like a noir drama, love it!!!

Okay but you didn't really say anything. The floor, the engine, suspension, side pods, etc? You said nothing substantial. They have downforce, thus the tire dag, their rear end hooks up on exits, there is some instability for sure at high and medium speed. The package is not working and they're chewing tires. Drivers, not the best, not consistent. Remember the Haas is eating tires as well sharing many of the same parts.

I'm not exactly a Ferrari fan, but there is an 8 year old within me that always wants to see Ferrari doing well.

Last season's inconsistency, durability issues, and miscommunication etc etc caused a rot that is still in the woodwork which isn't going to be treatable for some time. An issue for me is Ferrari's inability to recruit the top staff talent and being the only teams not to be based in the UK, is a disadvantage right now - an engineer for example having to up sticks with a family etc to a different country where English isn't the first language must play a role? Carlos seems more openly disgruntled with decision-making and strategies compared to last season in my opinion, and Charles just doesn't seem the same guy pre French GP 2022, where it was the beginning of the end for me. I'd love to see Ferrari truly compete on a consistent basis and take it to Red Bull, a great Ferrari team is good for F1 but drastic changes have to be made within the organisation.

If leclerc stays at Ferrari it will be a what could have been story for him. I find it pretty ridiculous that Mercedes even with a terrible car still out point them. And McLaren can pretty much go from the 8th fastest car to the 2nd fastest. There team has to many issues from pit stops to strategy and even just communication with the driver.

In my opinion, Ferrari need a real force of personality that can push through their self-importance and ego as a team to reshape them. Because it's happened before, twice in fact, when the team seemed to be trailing. Niki Lauda joined Ferrari after they came 6th in the Constructors and was willing to tell Enzo Ferrari, to his face, "The car is shit". With a lot of feedback from Lauda, Ferrari narrowly missed the 74 championship with Reggazzoni and then in 75, Lauda and Ferrari were on top of the world. The next of course was Schumacher who not only had the influence to develop the team, he knew the people he wanted. If I'm not mistaken, he wanted Ross Brawn at Ferrari after they worked together at Benneton. I like Carlos and Charles, but neither of them have that level of influence. I think Carlos is trying, with him effectively dictating his own strategy every race but I don't think he has the same development influence. And to be frank, at this stage I'm willing to say Charles is a great driver, but I don't think he's a good team leader.

Driver management is also an issue. How many times have we seen situations where the driver behind is quicker but they are told not to attack. I honestly believe in a top and consistent car, Leclerc and Sainz are just fine. But we aren’t in a top car and should forget about driver management and just focus on the results. In Hungary, Sainz should have been let by as soon as possible to take advantage of the softs and give Hamilton a headache.

Atleast Ferrari content never disappoints😂😂

At this point i want the engines to start blowing up again because atleast they were fast when the were blowing up.

Leclerc and Sainz are podium drivers. Their cars are good enough to get there. I’m an RB fan but love the history of Ferrari in F1 dating back to schummy, Vettel, kimi etc. Ferrari needs better leaders.. top down. It’s not the car or the drivers. Hearing “checking” or “we’ll check” after every question the drivers have is a let down.

I think the problem with the team is that they are spoiled by choice, they can get just aboout any driver, can study any which way of airflow, and can always afford to pay for mistakes on track that cause damages however, now that they had to scale down, due to cost cap, they're like okay well were do we NEED to focus on as opposed to WANT, and that indecision is what is leading them to this, because they probably did R&D other aero designs and they're like well the times are similiars so let's go with this one, I assume the upgrades in Barca was just like "well what if we try this" and it was basically more of the same so it's like "well which one of these works best then? " its always easier to scale up than down

It's more like, 1 good year, 10 bad years.

It's the team mentality. Schumacher brought his team with him and hadn't left the garage until they did exactly as he wanted the car to be, and there was a success. When he left, I might be wrong, Ferrari fired some of the people who were crucial in that winning era and hadn't done anything significant since. They don't consider their driver's input and opinions, they just have that weird "we are Ferrari and we are above it all - everyone loves us" mentality, and they are not seeing that times have changed. Drivers are more involved in strategies than ever, and their input is respected in other teams, but not here. It's not enough to change a few people or drivers, it's that philosophy that needs to be changed.

It's like a friend or loved one that is always a disappointment; for some time it hurted, but now, it is so consistently unreliable that you don't feel much about them anymore; the love is just not there

They should focus on the 2024 car by now. Forget this year. Improve there pit stops, radio, communication, strategy. And what they want in F1. They have one of the best drivers in there team. So it's now a thing of management and mechanics.

Binotto was a clown but delivered the upgrading path and put limits to Leclerc demands...now neither...

The years of Ferrari since 2019 have all but confirmed to me what I always suspected about Ferrari; that the days with Tost, Brawn and Schumacher where the exception and not the rule for Ferrari. They were mediocre in the 20 years before Schumacher' s firs championship with them in 2000, and have been in the 16 years since Raikonen's in 2007.

Buddy, it will happen again. They will never get back to the top. '22 was their last chance. They just can't spend themselves out of trouble again and Italians are notoriously bad at being efficiënt

I think by now Ferrari has become synonymous for 'bad strategy calls'. But one thing that I think we should analyze on a bit broader scale is the Ferrari power unit. All teams using Ferrari this season are a dissappointment, especially in race trim. Maybe it's power distribution, but for some reason Ferrari, Haas and Alfa Romeo all cannot maintain whatever decent results they show during qualy. The drop-off is huge. Another issue is language: most people there are from Mediterranean countries communicating largely in Italian. But in public they are required to speak English which I find a little disciminating against the two Italy-based teams and Alfa Romeo which is a German-Swiss-Italian co-op. Let people communicate n their own language if that increases the chance for better performance and better results. Third and final: Charles Leclerc. Despite him having flashes of absolute speed, as a personality he does not come across as a team leader; not the sort of person (or driver) one wants to build a team around. I feel Carlos Sainz does have that personality and his strengths are in consistency and overview, rather than instant raw speed. But Ferrari as a team are more like Leclerc because it has been built around Leclerc: occasional class, but mostly unpredictable, dodgy, irregular, inconsistent, uncertain, a bit flingy.

how did vettel manage to fight the mercedes from 2015-2018 driving for these clowns. i'd never know.

Maybe trying to keep 4th place for now to have an aero testing advantage in the second half of the season to better work in next year's car? Since this season is already down the drain, why not do a "pro gamer move" like that? maybe even let go of the constructors podium and end the season in 4th to keep the aero testing high for the start of 2024...

“Do you think their best bet is to learn from these problems and get on top of it? Let me know in the comments below.” No, definitely not, their best bet is to do absolutely nothing to right the ship and learn as little as possible. What question is that? lmao

As a Ferrari fan since the early 2000s this is really heartbreaking how the Team have fallen this Season is a total write off unfortunately there seems to be no true leadership

We've been asking the same question since 2017