How do you solve a problem like Ferrari?

Ferrari's miserable Italian Grand Prix performance typified the team's troubles in 2020. Formula 1's most famous team should not be tempted to lose its head, but must also make concerted steps to enact a full recovery in the next few years

Jake Boxall-Legge Sep 7, 2020, 2:03 PM

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Had the tifosi been in the house for the Italian Grand Prix, they would have been treated to their own national anthem - Il Canto degli Italiani - at the end of the race. Flares, flags and fans alike will have all sprawled across the track in celebration - but without a Ferrari driver to be seen.

Last year, the Italian national anthem rang out in deference to Ferrari's Charles Leclerc and his overwhelmingly popular victory. But this year, it serenaded Pierre Gasly's surprise run to the top step, while Ferrari suffered arguably one of its most miserable, apathetic and downright lacklustre performances of its Formula 1 tenure.

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Author Jake Boxall-Legge

Jake Boxall-Legge Autosport’s Technical Editor. Having studied Automotive Engineering with Motorsport at the University of Hertfordshire, West Country-born Jake's original ambition was to design racing cars. During a year between studies in which he accidentally rekindled a love of writing, he took up a Master's in Motorsport Engineering at Oxford Brookes. Halfway through his master's year, he was offered a place on the Autosport Academy, conducting occasional freelance duties before becoming the press officer for Formula 2 and GP3 in 2018. Autosport offered him a return to the fold later that year to serve as its Technical Editor. His voice appears on a number of videos and podcasts, and can often be found writing about terrible Formula 1 cars in excruciating detail. In his spare time, Jake enjoys baking and blames his failure to make it past the Great British Bake-Off interviews on his tenuous grasp on choux pastry. His dream is to open a brunch cafe - and his willingness to make outrageous puns in inappropriate situations has earned him the contempt of his colleagues.