Will Ferrari’s new F1 car get the team back to its winning ways?

Maranello - Ferrari is aiming for a return to competitiveness in 2022, with the new F1-75 challenger that was unveiled on Thursday, and which carries the weight of history and expectation for the sport's oldest and most successful team.

The Maranello-based squad has raced in every season of Formula One since the championship was founded in 1950 and has won more races and championships than anyone. The team has also crowned some of the sport's greats including Juan Manuel Fangio, Alberto Ascari, Niki Lauda and Michael Schumacher.

But Ferrari’s last champion remains now-retired Kimi Raikkonen who won the title in 2007. Last year the team, despite bouncing back from a dismal 2020 to take third in the constructors' standings, went without a win for the second season in a row.

"Our objective for 2022 certainly is being back to being competitive and being competitive means being capable of winning races," team principal Mattia Binotto told reporters following the car's launch on Thursday.

"That's the way we see it at the moment and I think we will be pretty happy if we will be in that position."

Formula One is introducing its biggest rules shake up in decades, with cars featuring revised aerodynamics and bigger 18-inch wheels aimed at improving the racing spectacle.

The new rules could shake up the established order and Ferrari, who unveiled a stunning new car done up in a red and black livery in a throwback to the past, are clearly eyeing this season as an opportunity.

The word innovation was repeatedly used during the launch of the challenger, designated the F1-75 mark 75 years since founder Enzo Ferrari manufactured the first car to bear his name.

At the same time the new rules are a step into the unknown. But, despite the