Ferrari Launches 2022 Formula 1 Season Challenger Cars Next Month

JAKARTA - The Scuderia Ferrari team on Monday announced they will launch a car that will challenge the 2022 Formula 1 season in the coming month, on February 17 to be exact.

Through social media, the Italian team uploaded a teaser video of the launch date of their new car.

Ferrari became the second team to announce a timetable for their car's launch after Aston Martin last week announced their plans to lift the curtain over the AMR22 on February 10.

The name of Ferrari's new car has yet to be revealed, but the Prancing Horse team will enter a new season on the back of a positive result last year in which they finished third in the constructors' standings, coming back from the team's worst result in 40 years, when it slipped to sixth in 2020.

Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc presented five podiums and two pole positions to bring Ferrari closer to the top two teams, Mercedes and Red Bull.

Ferrari is reportedly looking to renew Sainz's contract following his impressive first season. The Spaniard's contract expires at the end of 2022.

Despite failing to win a race for the second season in a row, but Ferrari found the data collected by the two drivers as good capital to navigate a new season where this year there will be a regulatory overhaul and a new generation of cars.

Ferrari's new car will not take long to pave the way after launch when February 23 the team and driver undergo pre-season tests in Catalunya, Spain.

The three-day test will be followed by a test in the same period in Bahrain on March 10-12, before the season-opening race there on March 20.