Ferrari prepares its title assault for 2016

Since Sebastian Vettel arrived at Ferrari, Maranello seems to be breathing a new atmosphere. The German driver, who, as some insiders have implied, brought with him that contagious joy that had been missing from the headquarters for a while, after a debut season with the Red more than satisfactory is ready to prepare to fight for the World Championship in 2016. The current season was a year of transition, it was known and all the efforts of the Prancing Horse have always been focused on next year. Clearly if the world title arrived already in 2015 it would be "like win the lottery“, Team Principal Arrivabene declared, but in Maranello they look further afield.

59 points. Just over two Grands Prix divide Lewis Hamilton from Sebastian Vettel in the general classification. Races, there are still many but mathematically speaking it is still everything is possible. Ferrari's primary objective is to start the 2016 season in Mercedes style, dominating. And it is for this reason that the Prancing Horse wastes no time in easy illusions but he began to carefully prepare next year's car, as if the discussion for the 2015 World Championship was already closed, a Affair private between Hamilton and Rosberg where the English will emerge victorious.

From what little we have been able to learn so far, the single-seater that Ferrari will use in 2016 will have the power unit mounted slightly further back compared to the current one to benefit from aerodynamics and to transform it into a more agile car at the rear. The car started to take shape in early months of 2015, and in August there was already a close-knit working group that was completely dedicated to this project. Even if Mercedes, race after race, seems to be more and more of a single-seater devastating, the difficulties encountered by Ferrari on the SF15-T concern in particular the energy recovery of the electrical system.

In Maranello they want to win again. Sergio Marchionne wants to win with Ferrari and since he joined the power of the Prancing Horse, they have been investment funds liberalized for the Formula 1 team, limited instead in the Domenicali-Montezemolo era. Precisely to have the opportunity to recover the gap that divides the Red from the Mercedes, there is talk of an investment even greater than 150 million euro, figures never seen in the last ten years of Formula 1 contested by Ferrari. The Silver Arrows will certainly not stand idly by but, according to a famous saying, who begins well It's halfway there.

Eleonora Ottonello