He appeared in the theater of Reggio Emilia, in front of hundreds of Tifosi, and owes his name to the 1000 GPs who complete this course
Presentation of the new SF1000.
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 adopted by unified Italy. Be the vehicle with which Sebastian Vettel, looked with magnifying glass by the Tifosi, and Charles Leclerc will try to close the hegemona 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 will meet this year in the Formula 1 – at the Grand Prix of Canad, 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 more changes compared to the SF90 of 2019; It is much narrower and reveals new features in the engine cover, where a kind of tiburn 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 try to end the sequa of the 'Cavallino Rampante', which has not held a title of Builders since 2008 and that does not crown one of its pilots as world champion since the finlands achieved Kimi raikkonen in 2007.
The head of the Ferrari team, Mattia BinottoHe 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 Montmel tests next week. “We must grow, focus on reliability and long-term work, given that the 2021 project has already begun intensely,” he said.
The SF1000 take its first laps within a week, when pre-season tests begin at the Circuit of Barcelona-Catalunya on February 19.
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