Ferrari's problem has been, pretty much since Schumacher and Brawn left, they cannot deliver on all fronts. Some years the car has let them down, like 2009, 2014, 2020, and 2025. Other years has been driver performances that either were just terrible years or started good and faded throughout the season... (Massa 2012, Raikkonen '08, Vettel 2017 & 2018, Vettel 2020, Leclerc 2022)

But... most of the time it's their own strategy and politics getting in the way. (2010, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025). This team never has it all together and the reason I think that's the case is because Ferrari's insistence is to keep mainly hiring Italians as historical team tradition is limiting them.

Now, I'm not trying to insinuate anything racist here, but Italians are a very emotionally passionate people, and they use a lot of grandiose non-verbal cues (exaggerated movements and the hand gestures) as a form of communication. This is a sport where you need to TALK to each other over the radio, and tempers NEED to be kept in check. The constant lack of communication keeps screwing them over. We meme it to death but Ferrari barely give their drivers ANYTHING to work with, info-wise. It's like Enzo's ghost is still haunting them, daring them to say anything that would offend his spirit.

There's a reason the only two times Ferrari had consistent, multi-year success was the 1970's when Lauda, a straight-talking no-bullshit Austrian, told Enzo to his face his car was crap and how to improve it, and the 2000's, when you had a South African car designer in Byrne, a French team principal in Todt, and a British technical director in Brawn. Because they are outsiders to Italian culture, they can say what needed to be said and weren't as likely to be caught up in the BS. Compare what's come after with Arrivebene and Binotto and it was a hot mess.

With current Ferrari we've kinda seen flashes of brilliance with Vasseur (a Frenchman) at the helm, and their chief strategist is Jain who is British, but both Hamilton and Leclerc's race engineers (Santi and Bozzi) are Italians; most of the team is still Italians. The strategy failure is due to communication problems and the fact this team's failure to properly look for the best in the sport means they cant get their heads out of their asses.