When you haven't ridden the post-Monegasque sensationalism it is very easy not to follow the catastrophism that arises from a disastrous sporting result. Yes, because nothing worked at all in Ferrari's Canadian GP. And let's not mitigate the problem power unit of Charles Leclerc's car - which also weighs - or the damage to the floor of Carlos Sainz's SF-24.
The “Reds”, in Montreal, had none. Point. Today is analysis day. The usual suspects, those who have hammered away for two weeks with in-depth analyzes full of Anglo-Saxon technical terms, those who have fun with telemetry and who propound principles that almost claim to rewrite the laws of physics (and journalistic decency), are now struggling to to retract and explain, with scientific concepts of their own, what happened on the curbs that were not so friendly on the track named after Gilles Villeneuve.
I was reading someone a couple of days ago predicting poles and victories even in the wet. That is until Saturday morning. Then the half-retraction on Sunday: the qualifications and the night had brought advice, perhaps.
They will now be holed up to figure out how to justify their poor performance before telling us what went wrong on the red single-seater. Also because I am not able to explain it to us considering lunar predictions that today are laughable given how things have gone.
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Ferrari SF-24: not a diamond after Monaco, not a broken ceramic after Montreal
Those who have avoided flights of fancy, it was said, today have the possibility of not being carried away by the collective hysteria that has gripped the "red umma" already after the first stages of a tormented Canadian Grand Prix. The values in Formula One have become more compact, Red Bull is no longer that spaceship that came from distant and technologically more advanced worlds.
No, it seems like a "normal" car driven by an extraordinary driver and supported by a team that does things well and that doesn't allow a driver to fit dry tires in the rain, in the most lopsided and counterproductive of "either way". or he breaks it."
Offset one power unit in a power deficit with a laughable move is the one who made the wall with Leclerc's assist. Ladies and gentlemen, you don't see this stuff in Milton Keynes. Never. It's a fact. And this says many things. The most important is that Ferrari still has to put in the miles to become the point of reference. She will probably win other races between now and the end of the year, but perhaps she will be forced to experience other less fortunate days, so to speak.
Writing a banality like the one you have just read does not bring comfortable consensus, but photographs the facts for what they are. In the frantic search for click and of an "electorate" that supports the mechanism, some newspapers have lost their mission. Here we don't explain the concrete trends but we tell the things that the fans, moody and passionate by definition and constitution, want to read to stimulate the sensation of the moment. Which lubricates the wheels of the money flow.
After Munich triumphalism won, today we are riding defeatism. Canada was a bad race, Ferrari didn't understand a thing. It happens. It also happened to Red Bull, in the season of 21 victories out of 22, to lose its wits and compass in Singapore.
The SF-24 was not a spacecraft, it did not become a curbstone today. It is a single-seater that is in the lead with its advantages and with some defects that become evident when the temperatures are relatively low. The opposite of what, for example, happens with the Mercedes W15 which seems to be reborn when the thermometer points to cool.
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Measure. This would serve to explain certain phenomena, to talk about the things of the world and, in our small way, those that refer to Formula One. Montreal is a lesson for Ferrari which has understood that it has not arrived and that it has work to do in strategies, in the management of critical moments and on the technical front. Canada represents a lesson for those who believe that the facts are a marginal detail. And that they can be used and distorted for one's own commercial interests.
Formula One is heading into a week's break. They won't sleep in the racing departments because the Circus is facing a triple headers which will say a lot about the values on the pitch and how this 2024 World Cup will be oriented: the championship, after Spain, Austria and England, will be definitively defined. Ferrari wants to prove that it is what it was before Montreal. However, without considering himself the subject to beat as some have described it.
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