Following the much publicised loss of performance after an FIA technical directive in 2020, Ferrari have rolled the dice with a new power unit for 2021. And with that unit set to be fitted in his Alfa Romeo team’s C41 challenger this season, Team Principal Fred Vasseur said he had been encouraged by the numbers he’d seen coming out of Maranello so far. Ferrari’s power unit issues had knock-on effects for their customer teams in 2020, with all three of Ferrari, Alfa Romeo and Haas scoring just 142 points between them – compared to the 768 put on by the three Mercedes teams, including the non-scoring Williams – and leaving them sixth, eighth and ninth in the constructors’ standings respectively.