Ferrari's lack of development during the season

The showed it last year they are back to pushing for both. Thing is they lacked great development during the season that allowed Mercedes to come back and win again. So what's you guesses on how can they improve that to be not a repeat again? I am guessing doing the Michael Schumacher way again seeing as that was the way to win. Obviously they need to push to development more efficient so that gains are more expending than lessing. So what do you think needs to be address in order for them to be better at it?

 

I don't think it was a lack of development. I think there were several factors

1) For sure, Ferrari, Vettel and Kimi screwed up some races. And Baku was a disaster on several levels.
2) At the end of the season Merc was really taking it easy. Ferrari knew it had no chance so it started working early on this year's car


Ferrari really needs to work on winning poll positions. Too many races were ruined in the first laps from an incident or one car or the other Hamilton never had that problem all year. Their race pace wasn't bad but its almost impossible to pass in today's F1 if the cars are closely matched.

I think Ferrari tried really hard last year until it was clear they would not win either championship, starting in September. Then it was cruise control for Merc.

 

Ferrari's development last year was caught out be "redefinitions".

Look at the changes made part season in, and see the results and gaps change.