The thing in Formula 1 during the off-season is, you rarely hear that a team won’t come out with the best that will beat the rest. Part of it is managing expectations (on both ends), and part of it is just hype. But when the F1 community, inside and out, almost unanimously rank where they’re ranking Ferrari in 2022 at the moment, there has to be some reality behind it.

And more recently, a couple of Formula 1 insiders made some comments that only further the expectations fans have. Or they bridge the gap between the expectations and reality.

Regardless, it’s good news for Ferrari fans.

Sky Sports’ Ted Kravitz said, “I’m hearing a lot of positive noises out of Ferrari. The engine’s going well and they say the car is looking much more aggressive than it has in any of the recent Ferraris we’ve seen over the last two or three years.”

And Karun Chandhok said, “I had a couple of conversations with people just before Christmas and they were very optimistic because they feel they made big gains on the power-unit side.”

Before the end of last year, team principal Mattia Binotto had also said a lot of reassuring and promising things.

“If I look at the 2022 car, and the 2022 power unit, believe me there is a lot of innovation in it,” Binotto said. “I can myself measure it by looking at the car itself, the way it’s progressing, and certainly with the amount of innovation we put in it.”

When will Ferrari launch their new car?

After Aston Martin became the first team to announce their new car unveiling on February 10th, Ferrari soon followed it up with their own.

The team from Maranello will reveal their new car on February 17th, a month from today. However, it has not been revealed just how or in what kind of event will the unveiling will take place.

Regardless, it’s not long until we see whether the talk and the air around the new Ferrari is fiction or fact.

So it’s not an exaggeration to say that Ferrari fans will pay attention to the pre-season testing just as much as they will on the actual season.

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