Emerson Fittipaldi makes Ferrari prediction for round 2 of F1 season

Former Formula 1 world champion Emerson Fittipaldi is predicting Ferrari to be the team to beat this evening at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

The new season heads to Saudi for round 2 of the 2022 world championship and Sergio Perez will lead them away in the Red Bull, after earning his first-ever pole position in his F1 career last night in qualifying.

He’ll be gunning for his third career Grand Prix win, then, but has the challenge of two quick Ferraris and Max Verstappen all right behind him to deal with.

Ferrari, of course, are looking for their second victory of the season with Charles Leclerc winning the first race of the campaign last weekend in Bahrain, and Fittipaldi is of the opinion that the Scuderia are the team to beat in Saudi.

“I’m sure Ferrari [will win,]” he said to Vegas Insider.

“They got their act together better than anybody else before the season and it showed in the results in Bahrain.

“This new aerodynamic package with the porpoising that was happening, in all the teams, it happened when you had ground effect cars many years ago and you could see Ferrari was the most, what I call, stable. Didn’t look porpoised, the back or the front.

“For sure, they are very powerful. In Jeddah, they’re going to run strong again. No doubt about that.”

Certainly, the Ferrari does appear to be running on rails and it was only a mega lap from Perez that prevented them from earning a front-row lock-out for this evening’s Grand Prix.

The action gets underway at 6pm UK time, and it very much looks as though it is going to be Ferrari v Red Bull once again underneath the floodlights in Jeddah.