Ferrari principal Mattia Binotto has bluntly said that they lost the Drivers' and Constructors' Championships when their 2019 challenger was designed. The SF90 arrived and departed winter testing full of promise – both Ferrari and Mercedes were confident that the red team would start 2019 as the dominant force, but it didn't work out that way. Ferrari's low-drag approach with the SF90 cost them against Mercedes as the Silver Arrows went on to take their run of consecutive Constructors' titles to six. In hindsight the Scuderia know they went with the wrong philosophy and tried to add downforce throughout the campaign, but Binotto says their original design put both titles beyond them....
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