Although delighted to see his staff main the standings, Ferrari chairman John Elkann factors out that the season has solely simply begun.
Main each championships on benefit, with the F1-75 and Charles Leclerc trying to be in one other league, some are already suggesting that Ferrari is heading for its first drivers title since 2007, its first staff title since 2008.
Nonetheless, over time the tifosi have seen all of it earlier than, the Scuderia whipping up hopes solely to shoot itself within the foot a technique or one other.
When Michael Schumacher lastly received the title with Ferrari in 2000, on the fifth try, the tifosi had been ready 21 years, and over the course of among the seasons since 2007 many feared an equally lengthy look ahead to a return to the highest.
Talking on the firm’s annual shareholders assembly, Ferrari chairman John Elkann, although delighted with the Scuderia’s present success, has warned that it’s far too early to start out taking issues with no consideration.
“We mentioned two years in the past that we needed to work exhausting to get again to being aggressive and the 2022 championship has received off to a really thrilling begin,” he mentioned.
“Like all our tifosi around the globe, I’m delighted we’re competing on the highest degree.
“That mentioned, we all know the season has simply begun and in System 1 you might be all the time surrounded by fierce opponents,” he continued.
“We should work tirelessly as a staff to optimise each side of our efficiency. That’s the spirit and strategy I stay up for seeing at Imola and because the season progresses.”
Ferrari’s final revival was in 2019, however this was finally sidelined following a sequence of technical directives in regards to the legality of the staff’s engines.
The failure of the FIA to publicly disclose the findings of its investigation of the Maranello energy unit induced comprehensible outrage, whereas the staff, and its prospects, spent the following couple of seasons floundering because it sought to get well.
Final yr, Ferrari was among the many first to modify focus to the 2022 guidelines overhaul, whereas the facility unit division had already been doing their bit to get well from the 2019 shambles.
