Ferrari F1 boss Binotto considering skipping final races of 2020 season

Ferrari chief Mattia Binotto is considering whether to skip some of the remaining four races of the 2020 F1 season to focus on preparations for 2021.
Mattia Binotto (ITA) Ferrari Team Principal.
Mattia Binotto (ITA) Ferrari Team Principal.
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Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto is considering whe🤪ther to skip some of the remaining four races of the 2020 Formula 1 season in order to focus the Italian squad’s preparations for 2021.

A woeful 2020 campaign has left Ferrari on course to record its worst result in F1 f♒or over three decades, with the team currently sitting sixth in the constructors’ champio𓃲nship on 103 points.

In a bid to try and improve Ferrari’s fortunes for 2021, Binotto confirmed he might temporarily step back from his role overseeing t🐬rackside operations during grand prix events to return to the factory as work begins on next year’s car.

Binotto said 🐷he may not be present at some, or even all, of the last four rounds, starting with this ಞweekend’s Turkish Grand Prix.

“You need always to balance your tasks at the racetrack and at the factory,” Binotto said at the last race at Imola. “Still the factory is important where we are develop🌸ing the car, 🅰preparing the cars.

“I think I will not follow all the races, even i🌠n 2020 I am already considering eventually skipping som🌞e of the racing in the last part of the season starting from Turkey.

“Because at the end, when you’re responsible f🀅or an entire team, certainly th🤡e race event is important, but the entire… management of the entire team is even more important.”

Ferrari is investing much of its 2021 resources into developing a brand new power unit for next season as it looks to fix its engine deficit that has hampered its 202♕0 campaign.

Binotto said early indications from the dyno figures were “very promising☂” in terms of both performance and reliability.

“The engine is running currently at the dyno aಞnd I think the feedback, in terms of both the performance and reliability, are very pro♍mising,” Binotto explained.

“We've got dyno limitations [for 2021] and it’s down to ♊us to be efficient in the way we are planning all the tests on the dynos, and being even creative in the way we are approaching the testing.

“But I think that even if we've got some limitations on dyno operations, still there is room for improvement, and I thꦏink that, from what I can see today at the dyno, I'm happy with the results.”

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