Imola like an inviting “millevoglie” cake. Those of Max Verstappen who wants to immediately make up for the defeat in Miami. Those of Lando Norris, still intoxicated by his first success in F.1. And those of one Ferrari putting an Evo version of a super-updated SF-24 on the track and ready to close the gap on Red Bull and contain a McLaren that after the trip to Florida is starting to be really scary.
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Countdown to the Imola challenge
There are layers and layers of expectations to compose a “succulent map” of wonderful dreams and thoughts for this weekend when the curtain rises on the Emilia Romagna GP. Imola track with sauce arrives at a particular time for this F.1 World Championship where the hunt is open to a Red Bull which, although in the process of imploding, continues to represent an uncomfortable comparison for the competition. In the first European challenge of the series there really is everything to watch a great showa fabulous mix of emotion and red passion that has always animated the eve of this GP which takes place on the circuit named after Enzo and Dino Ferrari.
For many, the Imola event is a real crossroads of the season, a crossroads not to be missed for a competition that is closing ranks against a Red Bull that in these parts in 2022 began a sensational climb to the pinnacle of the Circus that has not yet stopped. Imola is a cathedral in which the pagan cult of motors is celebrated. Imola must remain a fixed point within the World Championship…
Ferrari, what a mugging in Spa!
While Formula One heads to Imola last Saturday on the Spa track we witnessed something unprecedented, bizarre, which cannot be found in the FIA WEC regulations. Nothing like this had ever been seen. The race was suspended with the red flag at -1h 47’30” after a kamikaze maneuver by Bamber and the track was invaded by debris, pieces of bodywork and guardrails to be repaired. The time was allowed to pass with the cars stopped on the finishing straight. Then with just 5 minutes to go, the clock was suddenly and sensationally set back and the race restarted almost two hours later, as if time had stopped at the moment of the crash. Evidently they didn’t want to send the 88,000 spectators who flocked to Spa home disappointed.
Until the infamous red flag, it was the Ferrari 499Ps that had earned the victory on the field. But after that sensational restart, success went to the Porsche of the Jota team, scoring for the first time in the World Endurance Championship. It remains a mystery why this match, which should have ended in the sixth hour, lasted so much longer. As? the 499Ps had to settle for third and fourth positions. A mocking outcome, a robbery of the Cavallino which in Belgium demonstrated that it can play against anyone. Now the long eve ahead of the 24 Hours of Le Mansbut in the meantime there is another result to digest that leaves a very bitter taste in the mouth…
6 Hours of Spa, the FIA defends itself: race restarted for sporting fairness
