Mattia Binotto admits Ferrari’s pace may have trailed off at the tail end of the season due to switching focus to the 2023 car. Indeed, Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz confirmed that his sights are already firmly on 2023. “It will be a new year, a new car, new rules for the floor. I believe that we will draw conclusions from the results of this season, and the team will build a great new car. Even Mercedes appears to confirm that it may be racing past Ferrari because the German team needed to develop the 2022 car for longer in order to understand the problems with the ‘no sidepods’ concept. “Mercedes have developed the car more than us while we stopped, so I’m not too worried about them.

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