At this point, it's sorta like target practice. I think we all know Ferrari's schizophrenic strategy is unlikely to bear fruit; the fun part is trying to guess exactly how it will fail.
My bold prediction is that next year's car - to be named something that breaks with recent tradition in order to signal a "new beginning" or a "return" to the team's "roots" - will be better than expected,
a la SF15-T, in part because of Allison's work over the last few years addressing fundamental problems, not to mention his controversial decision to abandon SF16-H relatively early. This will falsely be viewed a sign that the team is headed in the right direction.
Ferrari's 2018 contender, which will be the first non-engine project of Mattia Binotto's career, will be delayed by a futile attempt to remain competitive throughout the 2017 season, and it will ultimately amount to little more than a 150° Italia-like failure, i.e. a decent execution of a bad idea. Marchionne will then initiate a brand new series of upheavals, as he will never,
ever understand that he himself is Ferrari's biggest problem. (To be fair, that mindset appears to be a sign of the times. If anyone can ever figure out how to turn hubris and delusion into useful energy, then no one would ever have to worry about energy again.)
Sound about right?
GPR-A wrote:They need psychiatric attention.
I resemble that remark!