Ferrari hasn’t quite had the best of times and the worst of times, as Charles Dickens would put it, so far in the 2026 Formula 1 season, but team principal Fred Vasseur still views the first 11 rounds of the year as following a twofold pattern.
Ferrari has held second in the constructors’ championship ever since the opening round of the campaign, but has been challenging Mercedes’ dominant Silver Arrows more and more consistently, with Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc winning at Barcelona and Silverstone respectively.