A redecorated sporting bandwagon, complete with a roaring if not yet rampant Ferrari and a movie series on Netflix, embarks next weekend on an extended season of change and challenge when the Australian Grand Prix opens the 70th running of the Formula One world championship.
Two years on from Liberty Media’s takeover, and 25 since the death of Ayrton Senna, defending five-time champion Lewis Hamilton goes into F1’s first race in Melbourne expecting to be out-performed by his greatest rival Sebastian Vettel.
The German driver’s Italian outfit impressed most in pre-season testing in Barcelona, leaving Hamilton and Mercedes, winners of the last five drivers’ and constructors’ titles, gasping to keep pace, but refusing to feel intimidated. The only man to have beaten Hamilton in the last five years was his 2016 Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg.
Binotto, who has graduated from the team’s technical department to replace fellow-Italian Maurizio Arrivabene, is expected to give Ferrari a cooler and more technical edge in which reliability will be of paramount importance.In 2018, they lost the title through mistakes and failings as much as Mercedes prevailed with dogged consistency.
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