Ferrari’s first double retirement so far in 2022, precisely when Charles Leclerc was leading the race, does a lot of damage to the aspirations of the Italians in a World Cup that is getting more and more uphill for them.
After throwing away a possible double in the last Monaco Grand Prix, with a strategy that ruined the career of Charles Leclerc, who led the drivers’ championship until Red Bull and Max Verstappen found the solution to questionable reliability, Ferrari arrived to Baku with thirst for revenge.
The fact of not having materialized on the track, with results, the initial superiority with which they started the World Cup, has put the Italians against a rock and a hard place, no option to fail again of wanting to stay alive in the fight for both titles… but everything went wrong again.
One more
When the first ten laps of the Grand Prix had not even been completed, everything was blown up.
After abandoning in Australia due to a driver error that left him stranded in the gravel and suffering the same fate in Imola two weeks later, this time for reasons beyond his control, Carlos Sainz saw how his Sunday was going to last much less than what you would have liked.
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At turn 7 of this urban circuit, the #55 had to stop his F1-75 with no option to recover from a new blow: what initially seemed like a brake problem, which Ferrari finally confirmed shortly after as hydraulic problemended the GP of the Spanish Ferrari driver at the first change.
The fifth place in the general classification of pilots held by the man from Madrid seems harder to improve with each passing race weekendwith a single-seater that, either due to mechanical setbacks or driver failures, is neither where he would like nor where the Ferrari wall would like it to be.
moral blow
However, just another ten laps later, the Ferrari debacle was confirmed in the eighth round of the Formula 1 calendar in this 2022: on the main straight of the Baku circuit, the car of Charles Leclerc began to smoke at an alarming rate… to the point of having to stop and leave in the same way that his partner had done moments before.
Of the 6 pole positions that the young Monegasque driver has scored so far this year, the #16 has barely managed turn 2 of them into wins, those of Bahrain and Australia. Since then, Leclerc has been overtaken by the overwhelming dominance of a Red Bull which, thanks to ‘Checo’ Pérez, is sweet.
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The difference between the two main rivals for the two titles that are disputed year after year is beginning to be worrying for those commanded by Mattia Binotto, a dangerous trend that following this line can do them a lot of damage in a matter of a few Grand Prix.
