• F1.Ineos gets into the Mercedes

If Mercedes showed the world its new colors at the Royal Automobile Club in London, Ferrari unpacked the SF1000 at the Romolo Valli Theater in Reggio Emilia (Italy), about 30 kilometers from Maranello. An iconic enclave because there was born in January 1797, 223 years ago, the 'Tricolore' flag that the unified Italy adopted. It will be the vehicle with which Sebastian Vettel, looked with magnifying glass by the Tifosi, and Charles Leclerc will try to close the hegemony of the silver arrows. An act that was attended by hundreds of fans.

Once again, the matte red, combined with black details, will be the protagonist in Ferrari's No. 66 car, which owes its name to the 1,000 Grand Prix that the team will meet this year in Formula 1 - at the Canadian Grand Prix , as long as the appointment of China is previously held and is not suspended by the coronavirus outbreak.

The rear zone is the one that presents the most changes compared to the SF90 of 2019; It is much narrower and reveals novelties in the engine cover, from where a kind of shark fin that crowns the car starts.

In addition, the dorsals, bordered in white, remind of the designs of the late seventies and early eighties with which they formed the South African Jody Scheckter and the Canadian Gilles Villeneuve .

"The 2021 project has already begun"

With him, Vettel and Leclerc will try to end the drought of the 'Cavallino Rampante', which has not held a Constructors title since 2008 and that does not crown one of its pilots as world champion since the Finnish Kimi Raikkonen achieved it in 2007 .

The head of the Ferrari team, Mattia Binotto , stressed that they have put all their "commitment, effort and passion" in the manufacture of the new car, whose final design will not be seen until the Montmeló tests next week. "We must grow, focus on reliability and long-term work, given that the 2021 project has already begun intensively," he said.

The SF1000 will take its first laps in a week, when pre-season testing begins at the Circuit of Barcelona-Catalunya on February 19.

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