More texture has emerged from Imola on the WEC side, and it's a slightly uncomfortable read for Ferrari fans. The post-race analysis confirms what the result suggested: Toyota didn't just beat the 499P, they out-strategised Ferrari in the second half with the TR010, taking advantage of a Prancing Horse that arrived at the WEC opener without updates. Ferrari's car finished P2 and P6 — points on the board, but the headline is that the reigning Hypercar champions were running last year's spec while Toyota debuted a brand-new machine and won on its first outing. The BOP question hangs over all of it, of course. If the Balance of Performance rules are shifting the playing field in Toyota's favour, that's a structural problem. If Ferrari simply needed updates they didn't bring, that's fixable. The analysis suggests it was a bit of both — and the BOP uncertainty heading into the next WEC round will be worth monitoring closely.

On the F1 side, there's a genuinely useful piece of timing luck for the Scuderia. The FIA issued its clarified energy management rules on Monday April 20 — and Ferrari's Monza filming day landed the very next day. That 100km run now doubles as a data-collection exercise specifically calibrated to the new regulatory framework, allowing the engineers to define exactly how the SF-26 should be configured for Miami under the rules as they now stand. Whether Maranello planned it that way or stumbled into a happy coincidence, the outcome is the same: Ferrari arrives at Miami with fresher data than most. The filming day was already known to be carrying a significant portion of the update package; the FIA timing just added another layer of value to those laps.