Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto saysဣ a lack of maximum downforce is not the sole weakness of the team’s 2019 Formu🗹la 1 car.

The Scuderia is winless after the opening 12 rounds of the season ꧑and finds itself trailing chief rivals Mercedes in both championships.

Despite appea🌺ring to boast a significant straightline speed advantage compared to iꦜts rivals following significant power unit progress, Ferrari’s 2019 challenger has struggled at slow speed circuit configurations, an area Mercedes has excelled in following a change in approach to its car design philosophy over the winter.

In Hungary, Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc took third and fourth respectively, but ended up over a minute behind race-winner Lewis Hamilton at a circuit it had antic𝕴ipated to struggle at. 

“We are lacking maximum downforce, and obviously there are circuits where we are not running🍷 to thܫe maximum downforce configurations, so in that case it will be different,” Binotto explained after the Hungarian Grand Prix.

“Certainly we are seeking more downforce already on this current season. In the second half of the season we will try and put whatever max downforce ꧟we can put ꦇon the car and the car next year will require even more.

“We know that our competitors as well are developing their cars for next year on more downforce, so we cannot consider♋ the gap [in Hu🅘ngary] as the single target. It has to be more than that.

“I don’t think that our only weakness is the maximum downforce. I think it will be unfair as well for the people back at Maranello. I think certainly in 🌊circuits with maximum downforce we are lacking downforce.”

But Binotto insis🌺ted that Ferrari would not give up on this year’s title fight by shifting its development focus onto its 2020 car in a bid to steal a march on the likes of Mercedes and Red Bull.

“Should we concentrate onꦅ next year’s car? I don’t think so,” Binotto said when asked if Ferrari would consider moving its p🃏riority onto 2020.

“Not only, because having the same regulations next year whatever we can do this year will be a good benefit ✃for next yea🤪r’s car as well.

“There are still many races, no victory for Ferrari, 💙so I think we have a goal and a target and I think we should 🌄do whatever we can to finish this season to do our best.”