“I think it was honestly amazing. And I think as Ferrari, today I’m going to allow myself to give a bit of praise to the team and what they organised because I think [it] factor in their influence today.”
Tuesday, 14th February 2023, Scuderia Ferrari revealed the SF-23, in front of the Tifosi and the media.
A high-risk move from the Red Team, who took the chance of encountering several reliability problems, but an event that the Tifosi and the F1 community has gratefully appreciated. A return to simplicity and an ode to the passion that characterizes the Prancing Horse.
After the run on what will become his new companion for the 2023 season, Carlos Sainz told members of the media:
“I think Formula 1 needs these kinds of events nowadays, these kind of presentations where you bring all the media, to bring the fans, to bring our partners, to bring the engineers that are involved in the project, you bring the mechanics that have been working on the car for the last couple of months – you join them all together and you do a proper presentation with the car running. “
“Where you see the actual Formula 1 car running without too much privacy, [all] enjoying the nature of Formula 1.
“And I think we were brave as a team to do it because it’s the first-ever installation lap that we did with that car and it can always go bad. But we took the risk just to do something a bit different and I hope that you guys enjoyed it – because I definitely did and it was a very good day for the team, for Ferrari and F1.”
A great way to celebrate Ferrari’s new beginning. A new era, with the guide of a new Team Principal, Frédéric Vasseur, who will lead the team toward what will hopefully be a season full of on-track-battles at the front.
The Spanish driver seems confident about the upcoming season despite not being able to push the car to its limits, in the short time available during the event.
“Yeah, the first thing that I’m positive about is everything that we did today, nothing went wrong, everything went perfect.
“It’s actually, as I said before, relatively high risk to put a brand new F1 car on track in front of so many people and to actually get to enjoy it without any single problem on track – normally in these installation laps there’s always different issues here and there and today the car was running smoothly.
“I could actually push a bit on it and lean a bit in the car in the corners and feel the first things.
“Obviously, until Bahrain we will not know how the car is performing and how the car is handling, but at least we’ve already covered some nice steps in the right direction.”
Photo: Scuderia Ferrari
