The most basic thing you can read from this statement is that they don't need to be this "chunky" for cooling(which should've been obvious yet people were still arguing), the car looks like that because they found gains by shaping the bodwork in this fashion.Fer.Fan wrote: ↑18 Feb 2022, 22:30This interview shows that ferrari are unsure of their concept and are ready to act during the season. Sidepods are WIDE and draggy. Just compare to W13 and RBR18. Packaging of Ferraris PU, bodywork and sidepods, I am concerned…Fer.Fan wrote: ↑18 Feb 2022, 21:41Binotto on new car. Thay can repack sidepods during seasong if needed;
“If you look at the body shape we have got, [it is] quite wide, certainly, we have not filled underbody the full space, so we have got flexibility certainly in the middle of the car, in the bodywork. It’s worth somehow the regulations have got most of the freedom.
“If you look at the regulations it’s quite [prescriptive] on the front wing, on the nose, rear wing but there’s much more flexibility around the bodywork but the way we have packaged our power unit that will leave us some freedom in the future if we do at least at the start if there are other directions that can be promising.”
Number 2 is that they can still fiddle with it (and probably will), most likely with an evolved version of the body we've seen at launch(very possible for early season i would say, possibly even a race one package).
If they are somehow forced into a "abandon ship" and revert to the simpler concept Mercedes uses, then yeah that would be bad and put Ferrari in the backfoot for this season.