I wouldn’t read it as “not sure of their concept”… Most teams have said that they’ve come up with concepts that can adapt solutions if needed through the season, regardless of the concept… Similar comments have been made by Aston Martin and McLaren when they launched their cars.Fer.Fan wrote: ↑18 Feb 2022, 22:30This interview shows that ferrari are unsure of their concept and are ready to act during the season. Sidepods are WIDE and draggy. Just compare to W13 and RBR18. Packaging of Ferraris PU, bodywork and sidepods, I am concerned…Fer.Fan wrote: ↑18 Feb 2022, 21:41Binotto on new car. Thay can repack sidepods during seasong if needed;
“If you look at the body shape we have got, [it is] quite wide, certainly, we have not filled underbody the full space, so we have got flexibility certainly in the middle of the car, in the bodywork. It’s worth somehow the regulations have got most of the freedom.
“If you look at the regulations it’s quite [prescriptive] on the front wing, on the nose, rear wing but there’s much more flexibility around the bodywork but the way we have packaged our power unit that will leave us some freedom in the future if we do at least at the start if there are other directions that can be promising.”
And it’s an smart approach to not go for a concept that can transition during the season, it’s not only about “getting it wrong”, it’s more about what others got really right and how quick you could implement a similar solution in your car… With the amount of engineers and designers on every team, it is expected that someone will come up with something interesting that you may not have thought about, a flexible concept allows you to do integrate someone else’s solution easier.