The era of the technical revolution of Formula 1 starts in the name of Ferrari, the biggest absent in the last years of the Circus marked by the triumphs of Mercedes and Red Bull.
A red dawn for the Circus that gives reason to the line of the Prancing Horse team principal: Mattia Binotto had long ago decided to concentrate all the energies of Maranello on the 2022 single-seater which yesterday in the first GP of the season gave its first fruits with a double win absent from 2019 in Singapore.
Super performance that of the two friendly drivers who race on equal terms, Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz.
The brace already drives the fans crazy who now, encouraged by the very words of their idols, daydream the title 15 years after the last seal by Kimi Raikkonen.
And the response of the winning Red on TV was not long in coming, with a boom in ratings and a peak of over 1.7 million spectators on Sky sport in the final stages of the race.
From Leclerc and Sainz, as soon as they crossed the finish line on the Sakhir track in Bahrain, the word World is no longer a taboo: "Bahrain is not always representative of the pace that will then take place throughout the year - acknowledged the Monegasque driver - and therefore it does not mean that it will go like this all year round. But it does mean that we are there, more or less. Now we have to work harder than ever to try to win this title. Even if it is very early in the year,
but I believe in it and I want to believe in it, otherwise it is useless for it to come to the track ". And also for the son of the Spanish Rally idol" Ferrari is really back and with this double win it is in the places that this team should always occupy ". An excellent second Sainz who could soon celebrate his renewal with Cavallino:" the new contract is close, very close, very very close.
But I'll let Mattia say it. "
And the Ferrari team principal did not hide, replying: "The agreement has already been found, it's up to us to put it in black and white".
Its renewal, as they say in Spain, would be until 2024 and would give strength and stability to the pair of young drivers and friends in Red, also considered of equal value, able to aspire to the maximum result for the joy of the fans and to fill the bulletin board. of Maranello where the most important trophy has been missing for too many years.
Ferrari's triumph in Bahrain finally relaunches Mattia Binotto's leadership of the Maranello team who, having reached this point, could no longer be wrong after years of disappointments;
at the same time it rewards the strategy of focusing development on this year's car.
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I am very happy with this result - said Binotto - Today's race reflects the goodness of what has been done in Maranello in these two years by a team in which, personally, I have always believed.
It is a group that has been able to work together and react to difficulties.
It is good to see that we are back to fight for first place, our goal this season.
To win in this category you need to be perfect: the drivers, the F1-75, the engineers with the strategies and the mechanics, impeccable in the pit stops and seeing how the team has been able to maximize every opportunity fills me with pride.
I have to admit that I got excited, and if I think of the fans who have always supported us, even in the less easy moments, I admit that I can't wait to be in Imola (next April 24, ed) to race in front of them all.