The race is on.

This is the second edition of the F1 podcast from the new home of motorsport coverage.

And today's big topic is Ferrari's underachievement.

No world championships and 11 seasons and just 29 wins from

215 races is more limping horse than Cavalino Lampante. So is there any reason to expect

2020's high hopes to deliver anything other than frustration? I'm Ed Strawn, helping me to get

to the bottom of this question today at the race's assistant editor Lucy Morrison and my fellow F1 correspondent Scott Mitchell.

So Lucy, are you ready for your podcast debut?

I absolutely am, yeah, this is bucket list stuff, very excited to be here and to talk about our topic today.

Ferrari's underachievement.

If this is on the bucket list, you must have worked through a lot of things. It's depressing, we're at the depressing tail end of the bucket list that this is... Nothing wrong with that, yeah. Speaking of depressing tail end, as Ed, I think it's time you introduce me. Yes, I've got a very special introduction for you because I decided I'd ask you how's the land of flat packed furniture and meatballs?

Very original. Yeah, it's fine. It's really cold actually at the moment. But I'm fine. I'm quite snug in my nice warm flat in South Stockholm. And I'm delighted actually because just before you started to speak to me, I remembered to turn on my recording device. So we are actually going to

record a podcast. I dread to think what would have happened if I'd got half an hour in and realised. I think you'd have been quite disappointed. Well, there's always something to be disappointed in you. That's obviously the voice of Scott Mitchell, for those wondering. He likes Swedish things. And it's a bit of an expert on Ferrari, so the ideal person. So we've got a super team for this particular podcast.

So let's crack on with it. Scott, Ferrari's failings last year, they've been talked about in depth.

Is there any reason to expect things to change in the coming season to make a really serious title bit possible,

rather than just sort of flattering to deceive as they've done in recent seasons?

Well, what's the cliché, Is it like the more things change, the more they stay the same? Reaching for a cliche straight away, good start. Yeah, well, exactly. But I think for Ferrari, it's the other way around. I think they're hoping that the more things stay the same, the more the bigger picture will change for them because there's a lot of stability on the Ferrari side in terms of the team itself. And Matea Bonotto, the team boss, always refers to this idea that they're quite a young team. Obviously, that doesn't mean that they're, sometimes it might look like they're being run by teenagers, but they're not, they are being run by grown by grown adults, but the people that have been in their roles for a shorter period of time shall we say than the likes of Mercedes and as you know ed mercedes is just such a such a

an all-conquering team because everyone knows their role really well and and they just they tend to

execute it perfectly across the board and Ferrari guess, putting the right people in the right

positions is one thing, giving them time to then act on that is another. So I think one of the big

things they're hoping for is that there will be natural improvement just by the fact that

when Bonotto came in last year as team boss, he was the chief technical officer before, there was

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