The secrets behind Ferrari's ongoing revival

Ferrari's 2017 was a bittersweet affair, but the blueprint that facilitated its revival means it may not have blown its only chance to topple Mercedes.

Jonathan Noble Dec 7, 2017, 1:39 PM

Upd: Dec 7, 2017, 4:46 PM

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. With a chill pill for Sebastian Vettel in Azerbaijan and Singapore, plus a different spark plug in Japan, we could be sitting here now reflecting on a full-blown title resurrection for Ferrari.

But top-level sport is not about ifs and buts, and Ferrari's Asian collapse - Vettel's needless crash in Singapore and the engine problems in Malaysia and Japan - effectively derailed what until then had been a nailbiter with Mercedes.

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Author Jonathan Noble

Jonathan Noble is Motorsport.com’s Formula 1 editor. Having graduated from University of Sussex Jonathan worked for sports news agency Collings Sports reporting on F1, F3, touring cars and other sports, with articles appearing in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Reuters, Autosport and other publications. In 1999 he moved to Haymarket Publishing to become a senior editor at Autosport Special Projects, and one year later he became Autosport’s grand prix editor. In 2015 he moved to Motorsport Network, becoming the F1 editor for Motorsport.com. He is also a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers, and sits on the FIA Media Council.

Jonathan has won multiple awards for journalism - in 1991 he was the winner of the Guild of Motoring Writers’ Sir William Lyons’ Award for young journalists, in 2010 he was awarded the Outstanding Individual accolade for consumer journalism in the Haymarket wards, in 2011 he won Haymarket’s Scoop of the Year, and in 2018 he was awarded a prestigious Medaglia d’Oro at the Lorenzo Bandini Awards for his contribution to F1 journalism.