The WEC result from Spa is in, and it's a mixed bag. BMW scored a historic 1-2 with the M Hybrid V8, dominant on home turf for Team WRT. Ferrari's #50 499P took P3 — a respectable salvage job given they started way back in P8 after qualifying. The race was described as complicated: Alpine apparently had the most complete car of the weekend and still came away without a win, while Aston Martin hoovered up P4. A podium in difficult circumstances keeps Ferrari in the WEC points fight, but they had more than a little luck from rivals underperforming around them.

The harder news is on the F1 side. Italian column 6 Cilindri — which has a habit of saying out loud what others whisper — has dropped what they're calling a "shock investigation" into Ferrari's situation post-Miami. The title alone is brutal: "bersaglio facile" (easy target). Their verdict: a significant number of updates have been brought to the car this season and produced essentially zero lap-time improvement. If that assessment holds up, it's not just a performance problem — it's a development direction problem, which is the harder thing to fix mid-season. The timing is awful given that at least some rivals appear to be finding genuine gains from the same regulatory framework.

The ADUO assessment has been moved forward — it now comes after the Canadian GP, two weeks ahead of the originally scheduled date. The FIA confirmed this alongside revised ICE/electric split parameters for 2027 engines. For Ferrari, who are arguably more engaged in the architectural debates around future power units than any other constructor right now, the compressed timeline matters. Canada just became a milestone weekend in more ways than the obvious ones.