How do you solve a problem like Ferrari?

Ferrari's miserable Italian Grand Prix performance typified the team's troubles in 2020. Formula 1's most famous team should not be tempted to lose its head, but must also make concerted steps to enact a full recovery in the next few years

Published Sep 7, 2020, 3:39 PM

Had the tifosi been in the house for the Italian Grand Prix, they would have been treated to their own national anthem - Il Canto degli Italiani - at the end of the race. Flares, flags and fans alike will have all sprawled across the track in celebration - but without a Ferrari driver to be seen.

Last year, the Italian national anthem rang out in deference to Ferrari's Charles Leclerc and his overwhelmingly popular victory. But this year, it serenaded Pierre Gasly's surprise run to the top step, while Ferrari suffered arguably one of its most miserable, apathetic and downright lacklustre performances of its Formula 1 tenure.

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Author Jake Boxall-Legge

Jake studied engineering at university, as his original ambition was to design racing cars. He was bad at that, and thus decided to write about them instead with an equally limited skillset. The above article is a demonstration of that. In his spare time, Jake enjoys people, places, and things.