Ferrari has launched the automobile it hopes will return the workforce to the entrance of the Method One grid this 12 months following its winless marketing campaign in 2020.

The primary photographs of the automobile, generally known as the SF21, leaked on-line on Wednesday an hour earlier than the official launch video and pictures had been launched by the workforce.

The automobile includes a two-tone livery, with the rear of the automobile painted within the burgundy color that featured on the primary Ferrari-built racing automobile, the 125S, in 1947 whereas the entrance retains the extra acquainted matte purple of latest seasons.

Charles Leclerc stays at Ferrari for a 3rd season and is joined by Spain’s Carlos Sainz, who changed Sebastian Vettel over the winter.

Staff principal Mattia Binotto stated the automobile was an evolution of final 12 months’s SF1000, which dropped the workforce to a disappointing sixth within the constructors’ championship.

“The automobile was born out of final 12 months’s automobile because of the new regulation,” he stated. “So it was partially frozen, however we tried to enhance it in all areas wherever it was doable.

“The aerodynamics was revised and it has a totally new energy unit.

“Its livery has additionally modified. As you possibly can see, the posterior is a burgundy color, just like the very first Ferrari racing automobile, the 125S. It is the identical color we used final 12 months at Mugello to have a good time our a thousandth grand prix.

“This 12 months goes to be filled with challenges. Visually we have drawn on our historical past, however we’re additionally wanting in direction of the long run, which is able to all the time be outlined by Ferrari purple.”

Ferrari’s largest sponsor, tobacco firm Philip Morris Worldwide (PMI), is represented by Mission Winnow stickers, together with a inexperienced brand on the engine cowl.

It isn’t clear whether or not the Mission Winnow branding, which first appeared on Ferrari’s F1 vehicles on the 2018 Japanese Grand Prix, will stay on the SF21 in any respect races this 12 months.

In 2020 the branding was not on the livery at any of the 17 races, however was current on the launch and through pre-season testing.

PMI has usually been accused of utilizing the branding to bypass the ban on tobacco sponsorship in F1.

The SF21 has a revised nostril, though the main target of the workforce’s growth, together with its token spend, has been on the rear of the automobile with new rear suspension and a brand new gearbox.

There has additionally been a concentrate on regaining the engine efficiency it misplaced between the 2019 and 2020 seasons, with the workforce reporting enhancements in all areas of the facility unit in addition to modifications to scale back the scale of the packaging on the rear of the automobile.

Talking at a workforce launch occasion in February, Binotto stated: “I believe final 12 months the primary difficulty was the pace on the straight strains, not on the facility, however energy and drag.

“We have labored loads on each side, the facility unit and the automobile’s aerodynamics, to scale back the drag of the automobile, and in line with our simulations as we speak, primarily based on what we’re seeing when it comes to energy output from the dynos, from the wind tunnel knowledge too, I believe we have now recovered numerous pace on the straights.

“So, I am anticipating the pace to not be such a difficulty because it was, we hope to be aggressive, however we’ll understand it solely once we are on monitor, as a result of I believe it is all the time relative to what the others are doing.

“However we consider our automobile is actually extra environment friendly in comparison with the one we had final 12 months and after I’m saying environment friendly, once more, it is each from the aerodynamic viewpoint and from the Energy Unit viewpoint.”

Ferrari and its 9 rivals will conduct three days of testing on the Bahrain Worldwide Circuit between March 12-14.

The identical venue will host the opening race of the 12 months, the Bahrain Grand Prix, on March 28.