Underlying issues with the car have become impossible to ignore as Ferrari are no longer mentioned in the same breath as frontrunners Red Bull and Mercedes. Only two races into the new season, he faces perhaps the toughest challenge of his long career. In recent years Ferrari’s challenge was to take the fight to Mercedes at the front. “I have been in F1 for 25 years and it is not the first time we have had difficult seasons at Ferrari. The 50-year-old knows the underlying issues with their car are impossible to ignore. The SF1000 is the car they take into 2021; almost two years of racing are at stake.

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