Instead of the constant radius of the 2022 wing this one has a flatter center section.
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After Mercedes introduced a thorough upgrade package in Monaco, Ferrari seem to follow suit by debuting a raft of new part at this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix. F1Technical's Balázs Szabó reports on Ferrari's latest development push.
They were testing setup extremes to define limits for themselves according to what the drivers have said. The way the car was on Thursday Leclerc said he completely expected itVenturiation wrote: ↑25 Feb 2023, 13:20did anyone listen to Pat Symonds yesterday saying he was surprised by the Ferrari porpoising by looking at the data he had access to, he said after one year and rules changes it should have been under control
For the 523564396th time - Ferrari are testing with less downforce than Bahrain's Sakhir circuit requires. It's not an indication of any kind of behaviour
They are also running a low downforce beamwing configuration (the same used at Spa last year)
Yes, you are right. These 2 days have been quite different from what ferrari has done during testing in the past few years.
hollus wrote: ↑24 Feb 2023, 19:51A reminder to everyone but specially to the new people (welcome!).
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As some have already mentioned, Ferrari drives with a rear wing with much less downforce than would be appropriate for Bahrain. Of course, this has corresponding consequences. Therefore, of course, any comparison is difficult as far as that is concerned. However, it's certainly not negative that Ferrari still sets acceptable times and is probably the second fastest car in these tests, because the lack of downforce means you lose lap time in any case. You also have to consider that Ferrari has made massive changes to both suspensions in terms of suspension geometry, so you're almost starting from scratch in terms of set-up. And it is a very complex and tedious matter to find a good or basic set-up, especially as far as the dampers are concerned. So there's practically twice the performance hidden here that you can't see yet. What is rather worrying are Leclerc's comments that he has experimented with different driving styles, which makes it clear that the car has changed significantly in terms of balance and is probably not optimal. Of course, this also has a lot to do with the set-up. It does seem that the SF-23 has a tendency to understeer, as Sainz seems to cope better with it. In a way, this would be logical, since Ferrari realized many years ago that cars with a slight tendency to understeer are gentler on the tires. Therefore, it might actually be a development goal for the SF-23 to achieve exactly this tendency. But all in all, there is certainly still a lot of power in the SF-23, which is contesting the tests with a rear wing with too little downforce and completely new suspensions, as well as a completely changed thermalem management as far as the tires are concerned.
#Ferrari changed the bottom on Carlos Sainz for the last run
Visible modification with the short tie rod already seen at Fiorano, not visible the modification under the bottom
