Antonelli: “Ferrari has been granted the ADUO, they will get very close”

Ferrari awaits the ‘new’ power unit At the end of the Japanese GP both Frederic Vasseur and Charles Leclerc underlined that in some ways another championship will begin in Miami with cars that will change a lot as a result of an entire month’s break in which to work on updates, but at the same time it will not yet be possible to change what is currently the factor that generates the big difference between Mercedes and Ferrari, namely the power unit. Interviewed by Sky, however, Andrea Kimi Antonelli anticipated that this ‘stasis’ at the power unit level is destined to be short-lived because ADUO, the system designed to give engine engineers with a performance deficit the possibility of bridging the gap with the reference engine on the starting grid, will intervene shortly. On the regulation paper the ‘checkpoint’ is scheduled after the first six races, in this case four because the cancellation of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia did not move the first ‘settlement’ of the ADUO further forward, but Antonelli declared that Ferrari – and consequently also the other engine manufacturers – have already received the OK on the ADUO. What Antonelli said “I know that there will be some big changes – said Antonelli – also the ADUO that has been granted to Ferrari for example which will allow them to develop the engine. They will certainly get very close, because their car is strong anyway and therefore if they also manage to improve the engine they will get even closer. But I’m not worried too much, in the end once I go to the track I will think about doing what I have done in the past weekends, that is, trying to go as fast as possible, concentrating on myself and concentrate on what I have to do, on the objective that is set each weekend. Then I’m sure that we will also bring fairly important updates: the car is already going strong and there is a good dynamic in the team, so I’m not worried too much, but I’m aware that the other teams will arrive sooner or later.”