I would suspect that's who everyone would expect to challenge Red Bull and Mercedes. "We'll see whether the field is going to be more level because of these new rules, everyone is starting pretty much from scratch."Īs for which teams might be able to make a step forward, he added: "I think the eyeballs are on Ferrari and McLaren at the moment. "There's so much to look forward to, to see just how the new technical rules are going to play out," added the 12-time Grand Prix winner. We will see halfway through the season who’s ahead of the other, then the team-mate has to support the other one,” said Andretti.While the wait goes on to see whether the family name will return to F1 as a team, Andretti senior is looking forward to watching the sport head into a new era in 2022, which marks the arrival of all-new technical regulations. “We know Binotto leaves them free to fight. When Andretti was asked by Sky Italia if he agreed with that claim, he replied: “Absolutely.”īut with Leclerc further strengthening his intra-team dominance with victory in Miami, while Sainz finished P3, it increasingly feels as though Binotto’s reluctance to impose team orders cannot go on for much longer.Īndretti though believes the team will take a more long-term view, claiming Ferrari will assess where Leclerc and Sainz are come the halfway point of the season, forming an approach for the second half from that. Sainz recently signed a new contract at Ferrari, keeping him at the team until 2024, with team boss Mattia Binotto repeating his view upon that announcement that with Leclerc and Sainz he feels Ferrari have Formula 1’s best driver line-up. With Leclerc now 51 points ahead of Sainz after only five races, the calls are growing louder for Sainz to settle into a supporting role to Leclerc. Mario Andretti, the 1978 F1 World Champion, believes Ferrari will start backing one driver when the 2022 season passes halfway.įerrari have returned to the front of the grid as they had hoped to do this season and after five races, Charles Leclerc leads the Drivers’ Championship with an advantage of 19 points over Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.įerrari meanwhile hold a six-point advantage over Red Bull at the top of the Constructors’ Championship.īased on what happened in 2021, it seemed there would be little to choose between Leclerc and his Ferrari team-mate Carlos Sainz, the latter having scored 5.5 points more than Leclerc in that campaign which was Sainz’s first with Ferrari.īut now driving the F1-75, a Ferrari challenger which is operating at the front of the pack, Sainz has yet to reach a level that can see him push for victories.
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