Scuderia Ferrari has announced a new car “SF-23” that will compete in the 2023 F1 World Championship. On February 14th (Tuesday), Scuderia Ferrari will hold a presentation of the 2023 F1 machine “SF-23” in Maranello. Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz will make up Ferrari’s driver line-up, but 2023 will be the first year of the new Team Principal Frédéric Vasseur regime.
In 2022, Ferrari made a bid for the title early in the season with Charles Leclerc’s two victories, but then reliability issues, strategic mistakes and driver error allowed Red Bull and Max Verstappen to run away from both. , leading to the departure of Mattia Binotto. Ferrari hopes to finally put an end to its long-awaited F1 title success in 2023. With the exception of last season’s F1-75, Scuderia Ferrari has reverted to the naming format it has used throughout F1’s hybrid era since the SF15-T in 2015. SF stands for Scuderia Ferrari, and 23 is the year. The SF-23 is the eighth Scuderia Ferrari car to be designated SF and the fourth to be referenced in the current year. 2017 and 2018 were named SF70H and SF71H to celebrate the number of years since the establishment of Ferrari, and 2019 was named SF90 to reflect the number of years since the establishment of Scuderia. The 2020 machine was called the SF1000 because it marked its 1000th Grand Prix appearance in the same season.
