wowgr8 wrote: ↑19 Feb 2022, 08:17
Mitch2.0 wrote: ↑19 Feb 2022, 03:32
I get the general concern regarding the extreme nature of the bodywork, and you can get a whiff of Ferrari doing a Ferrari and trying to be just a bit too novel with a new car.
That said if it proves to be competitive, I’ll be happy.
I totally agree here. I think they took "thinking out of the box" and "being brave" too literally here and just came up with the most unorthodox concept they could. The SF1000 is probably the most impressive Ferrari ever packaging wise, the engine cover and sidepods on that were incredibly tight, I really wish they went down that route (of course while fixing the problems the SF1000 had)
Nugnes reported that apparently this sidepod concept proved to be 7% more efficient than the sloped sidepods, I hope he is right but he isn't really trustworthy
It's important to be clear that they considered it more effective than Ferraris interpretation of how to make sloped sidepods work and we can't assume that in itself was an effective solution in itself, nor interpretation this as suggesting it was a bad one.
It's a chunky but sexy car, but the louvred spoon may well still be brilliant and could still be coupled with slimmer sidepods if they dont prove effective. For all we know this solution has some brilliance that needs to be further refined. Certainly in my original post I wasn't suggesting Ferrari throw the bathtub out with the water.
All the cars have scope to merge to a more unified solution at this point.
But if this concept does produce high downforce and they do have a strong engine then maybe its a winner as is.
Before the merc I thought this was a nice design, but merc pushed the idea of the floor forged into a crude bargeboard so the question it leaves me is, is the Ferrari solution relevant given what Merc have done and can it develop as much as those tunnel entrances on the merc.