Formula One's most successful team, Scuderia Ferrari have unveiled their brand-new machine, the F1-75 with which the Italian outfit's young driver pair of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz will race in the sport's 73rd season.
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I'm surprised Ferrari haven't discarded that Miami spec wing already, the weak DRS hampers them significantly in qualifying and in the race. I sure hope they don't have to use it.
Don’t forget that what Ferrari raced in Miami was just the rear wing that were already using - they chose not to use the new low drag one.
In principle, according to Italian motorsport, this is the low load rear wing for Baku:
Ferrari displaying the same wing they used for most races, Red Bull and Mercedes on the same wing they were at Miami (lower drag).
No word on the mythical low drag wing.
In Monaco, Thursday's pictures showed the car was fitted with the pre Barcelona floor, which was then changed before FP1. I suspect they will replace the wing pictured today with the as yet unused Miami wing; or at least i hope they do.
Micro developement in aerodynamics. Seems like they were used to get the air down in the tubes of the sidepods. Probably to create additional load and now they are optimise aero in the cockpit area, too.
I'm surprised Ferrari haven't discarded that Miami spec wing already, the weak DRS hampers them significantly in qualifying and in the race. I sure hope they don't have to use it.
Don’t forget that what Ferrari raced in Miami was just the rear wing that were already using - they chose not to use the new low drag one.
In principle, according to Italian motorsport, this is the low load rear wing for Baku:
Very good design - very low span-wise flow induced by tip vortices and connection to endplates has a concave shape, meaning interference drag is reduced to the minimum.
With so many different tracks, the chassis has shown it works brilliantly everywhere. Sidepods indeed cause no problems with drag (quite contrary, as we've shown here before), the 5-6 km/h top speed difference in Baku is mostly down to RB removing upper beam wing I would guess.
A total of 4 different rear wings are used and the car is always so well ballanced, this shows the engineers did nothing short of a perfect job chassis-wise, both regarding aero and suspension and how the two work together. I don't think the team produced a better chassis (relative to the field) in the last 15 years, maybe even since 2004.