10 days ahead of the start of pre-season testing, Ferrari has unveiled its SF-23 Formula 1 contender for the 2023 season, and as you'd expect, it's finished in a vibrant red. The event started with the arrival of Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc, on hand to greet the tifosi in their new race suits and talk about the work they have done in preparation for the new year before former racing driver Marc Gene interviewed new team principal Fred Vasseur.

With a backdrop of the Purosangue, 296 GTB, SF90 Stradale, Daytona SP3, 296 GTS, and Roma, Vasseur presented the startup sound of the new car just a week after an SF-23 engine was fired up for the first time.

Finally, the car was unveiled, and it's once again painted in a matte-finish red. Plenty of exposed carbon fiber adds a nice contrast.

Refinements to the aerodynamics and apparent changes to the front suspension were the most obvious alterations. For this year, the cars have to run higher than before as a means of mitigating potential porpoising, which plagued teams throughout the 2022 season.

In addition to showing the car in a static display, Ferrari surprised us by showing the SF-23 on the track for the first time. The teams are allowed to cover 15 kilometers (roughly 9.3 miles) of pre-pre-season testing to ensure there are no obvious problems before the cars arrive in Bahrain. Other teams have also shown the cars testing, but not live. Ferrari was clearly confident that its drivers wouldn't bin the car on its first outing and that it wouldn't suffer any mechanical failures. Either way, it's a remarkably bold move and a first in recent F1 history.

As beautiful as the car looks, the biggest concern for Ferrari fans the world over will be the reliability of the engine. Hopefully, this will have improved drastically over what we saw last season, and it wouldn't hurt for the team's strategies to be better, either. With the start of a new season, anything can happen, but the Scuderia will need to be at its best to mount a challenge against Red Bull and the like.

Aston Martin revealed its AMR23 contender yesterday, and McLaren took the wraps off the MCL60, so-named to celebrate six decades of McLaren motorsport. Tomorrow, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team will unveil its car. Pre-season testing gets underway from February 23-25, the same weekend the new season of Drive to Survive drops on Netflix.