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Last year Leclerc started season with two wins from the first three races, but by the sixth round in Spain Max Verstappen had taken the lead and then never let it go. Ultimately, a combination of reliability issues, strategy mistakes and driver errors put an end to Ferrari's title challenge midway through the year, although in the second half of the season it was also out-developed by rivals Red Bull.

Normally on an installation lap there are little issues here and there, but today things were running smoothly. I could actually push a little bit in the car in corners and feel a few things." Whatever you do, don’t call the Ferrari Purosangue an SUV. Times Luxx magazine’s David Green in our video review below avoids using “those three letters” altogether. The Prancing Horse’s latest car may have a raised ride height and rugged-looking wheelarches, but it’s not an SUV, it’s a “dynamic coupé with a powerful stance”, according to our briefing at the car’s launch in the Dolomite mountains. There would be more race wins before Postlethwaite left Maranello in 1987, but the 1982 car remains the one that his tenure at the team is best remembered for.

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The big difference, I would say, is the expectations are different, the pressure is different, but you can take that in a positive way. For sure the feeling and the mood around the team is different -- I think it is the only team where when you come to the factory at 7 a.m. you have people waiting for you outside of the gates. You can feel the motivation and the atmosphere around the team and it is a massive push for everyone." Charles Leclerc rolls out of the Fiorano garage in the Ferrari SF23. Ferrari Remember, there’s also the option of specifying a wheel with in-set LEDs on the top that light up red-to-blue as the car reels in its red line rev limiter. Another haptic button, positioned on the left-hand side of the dashboard, adjusts the door mirrors. Traditional door handles are no longer part of the Ferrari interior landscape, exit now done by pushing a discreet button. It also means silky-smooth throttle response and sensational performance, of course: there’s 715bhp on tap, with 80 per cent of the maximum 528lb ft of torque available above 2,000rpm, and upwards of 480lb ft between 4,300rpm and 7,750rpm. That results in sensational pulling power over a wide rev band, and instant performance at any speed in any of the eight gears.

A Tuscan Vila-inspired home for our Ferrari clients and enthusiasts” Jan Hendrik Voss, President of Ferrari Australiasia. It's difficult now to remember your emotions at the time. Funnily enough, I remember the day of the Pironi accident more than the day of the Villeneuve accident, because the Pironi accident seemed so silly.” And I probably shouldn’t mention this but one other (well-known) journalist we spoke to on the launch, who’d been driving the Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT, said the German car felt like an elephant in comparison to the Ferrari. That says it all. Pricing and availabilityI also think that after the 2021 season where we've been working very well and reset it a little bit from 2020, that was a difficult season, we have been working in the right direction and in the right way. And this gives me the confidence that we'll have a competitive car for 2023."