I went through the depths of the Internet (I surved through Wikipedia) to figure out if it is only our feeling that Charles gets fucked over by Ferrari on a regular basis, or if there is actually a pattern since Sainz and the Pasta Mafia entered Maranello. Here's what I found out:
Let's start with the first two years of Charles at Ferrari:
2019 & 2020:
Of course, as he was new to the Scuderia and a top team (and his teammate was Sebastian Vettel) the Qualifying and Race head to head of the first half showed a clear advantage for Seb (with the exception of Bahrain, where Charles was simply flying until Ferrari quickly brought him back to reality...), but ever since France he kind of started to find his footing. And I think we've never talked enough about his run from Spa to Russia - we never shut up about it actually -. In the end they're seem on pretty equal footing in 2019 and even the Ferrari Fuck ups (marked in red) were pretty equal.
In 2020 Charles pretty much whiped the floor with Seb (as far as you could wipe the floor at all in that shit box Ferrari called a car in 2020), and despite how slow the car was and how much Ferrari was bullying Seb to leave the team, there was not much Ferrari Fuck Ups in general...
So the count of Ferrari Fuck Up - Counter between Seb and Charles was 5:6 - so pretty equally messed with by the red team.
But then things changed when Carlos (aka the Pasta Man) joined the Scuderia Ferrari:
2021 & 2022:
Firstly we have to seperate (or not) between the Mattia Binotto Era and the Fred Vasseur Times.
After the 2020 Ferrari was slower than this year's Haas, people could have at least have a little hope that Ferrari was a bit better in 2021. Not championship winning, but better.
And as we can notice, at the beginning of the year, the only thing that let Carlos finish ahead of Charles, was if Charles had a problem (or beef with other drivers on track) The turning point seemed to have been Monza (ouch...), when the Pasta Mafia Tax finally paid off and even then Charles finished ahead of Carlos more often than not... But still Apart from Ferrari hating the hard tires (surprise surprise), there were of course only mechanical issues when Charles was either leading the race or would have started on pole...
Ferrari Fuck Up counter: 6:3 in Carlos' favour.
And then... 2022. The year of the beautiful F1-75, a car that looked like it could finally bring the championships back to Maranello.
(as we all know...) The season started for Charles in the most perfect way. The car was fast, perfect and the hopes were high. Okay, Carlos was struggling a bit in Australia and Imola, but finally the car is fast. But then the Pasta Mafia - Binotto Tax kicked in again and while Charles tries to stay ahead in the championship... The cars quite literally keeps dying underneath his ass, whenever he's leading the race.
He loses the Championship lead, as Binotto and Sainz Snr. openly admit to shit on the championships and develop the car so it suits Carlos more (which evidently makes the car slower), then the Race-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named Silverstone 2022 happened and Binotto wagged his finger and Charles threatened to leave the team if nothing changes in the team. (Leading to Binotto being fired eventually) But for the rest of the season the Pasta Mafia is still stong. The strategies in Garage 16 stay questionable, but despite all of that Charles keeps leading the Quali and Race head to heads.
Still: Ferrari Fuck Up counter: 8:4 in Carlos' favour. (Still double the issues in Charles' garage...)
And while Binotto was leaving Ferrari, he left the team with one last gift: the SF-23...
2023:
This time the year already started with mechanical issues for Charles, while the car was unstable and unpredictable, which lead to him pushing more and more, which led to him making mistakes. And the Ferrari Fuck Ups don't let up in garage 16, even if he seems to be able to cope better with the SF-23, leading both head to heads comfortably (i wonder why....)
It becomes even more noticable, when the Suzuka floor leads to the start of Charles incredible front row start streak since Austin (but since you can't have nice things when you're support Charles Leclerc, we just completed the triple crown of shame with it - having a DNF, DNS and DSQ in one season). But still he didn't give up, fighting to give Ferrari P2 in the championship after all, but Carlos seemed to have given up.
Ferrari Fuck Up counter: 9:4 - this year it's even more than double the issues in gaarage 16....................
2024:
2024 started hopeful, Ferrari seemingly had the second fastet car, the championships are finally a fight once again, but for some reason even Fred Vasseur can't stop the issues in Charles' garage. From Brake Temperature Imbalances to Ferrari still not prioritising the Championships in favour of a driver that will leave the team at the end of the year and while yes we FINALLY broke the Monaco curse, but afterwards it seemed like everyone (but Charles maybe) stopped working in Maranello.
Let's hope Charles did whatever he did Post-Silverstone 2022 and something finally changes in that team.
All in all Charles always had more Ferrari Fuck Ups in his garage, but with Seb it was pretty equal with 6:5.
With Sainz it is a whooping 29:11 problems, that lead to Charles losing many points and potentially even the Championship in 2022.
It is going to be interesting how 2024 progresses and if there will be a noticable change once the Pasta Mafia leaves Maranello again.
honestly im not even excited to release the thorntail accents anymore just super annoyed, tired and ashamed so once they all get approved I'm just dropping them on AH and not looking back lol
This has been taking way too long and I cannot work on what I had in mind for the month because of it orz
jane's season 51 recap instagram dump featured a lot of veronika!!!! me and probably only like one single weird lesbian in nebraska who i'll never meet or learn about any more than this are very excited about this
