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Are the ingredients now right for Ferrari’s next

title challenge?

The wait is becoming a long one. Ferrari fans will remember the sometimes painful 21 years between Jody Scheckter’s 1979 Formula 1 world title and the start of Michael Schumacher’s remarkable run of success for the Italian team. This October will represent 15 years since Kimi Raikkonen managed to snatch the crown from under the noses of McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso to take the most recent of Ferrari’s 15 drivers’ championship successes.

There are, however, reasons to be cheerful. And not just thanks to F1’s new regulations. As Alex Kalinauckas points out on page 13, Ferrari made good gains for 2017, the last time there was a significant rule change – and it made progress after its dismal 2020 showing.

Ferrari also believes that its driver line-up of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz Jr – probably the strongest of 2021 – is pushing it forwards. We hear from the key figures about how the competitive rivals have learned to work together to provide the team with what it needs to fight for championships once again (p18).

● Another, not quite so long, wait ends this weekend with the return of the Autosport Awards. We remind you of the four Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Award finalists on p26 and will cover all the winners on Autosport.com on Sunday and in next week’s magazine.

Kevin Turner Chief Editor kevin.turner@autosport.com

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PIT & PADDOCK 4 U-turn keeps Honda in F1 until 2025 7 Ogier’s WEC programme revealed 8 Ford announces Mustang GT3 plan 10 WRT tipped as Audi LMDh works team 13 Opinion: Alex Kalinauckas 15 Opinion: Jake Boxall-Legge 17 Feedback: your letters

INSIGHT 18 Leclerc, Sainz and Ferrari’s title hopes 26 Young Driver Award wait nearly over 28 The worst job at the Award tests? 30 The life of an unsung BTCC hero

RACE CENTRE 36 Acura beats Cadillac in Daytona 24 Hours 42 Mercedes and Mortara star in Formula E 49 World of Sport: Formula Regional Asian; Andros Trophy

CLUB AUTOSPORT 59 GB4 offers shootout to FF1600 drivers 60 Gounon to partner Loggie in British GT 62 F1 V10s for Goodwood demo 65 Opinion: Stephen Lickorish 66 Rating the new series of 2021… 68 …and what’s coming this year

FINISHING STRAIGHT 70 What’s on this week 72 From the archive: 1936 Milan GP 74 My favourite track: Augusto Farfus

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