Andi76 wrote: ↑19 Jan 2024, 02:40
gordonthegun wrote: ↑15 Jan 2024, 18:32
organic wrote: ↑15 Jan 2024, 13:26
PG/Formu1a suggest that the sidepods will be a less extreme solution. Something closer to the sf-23 and rb19 rather than the waterslides of McLaren/Aston Martin
There will be a significant undercut and the outermost floor fence will be significantly revised
https://twitter.com/SmilexTech/status/1 ... hRVIQ&s=19
I wonder how this guy can know all these things.
The translated tweet says a lot more. Why should we believe him?
Translation (by Google and me, the Spanish GP is that of 2023):
(Snipped quote)
All these journalists who claim to know what kind of front wing, gearbox, sidepods, suspension or whatever the new Ferrari has or how much less weight it has or doesn't have - that's all completely stupid talk, sorry. These people just make stuff up because they don't know anything but have pages to fill. Funnily enough, you only hear such things about the new Ferraris, but not about the new Red Bull, Mercedes or McLaren, Aston Martin etc. In an F1 team there are only a handful of engineers who actually know all the details about the car from front to back and these people don't blab this to journalists. And I can only repeat it - especially at Ferrari there are very strict contracts and an engineer needs permission to speak to the press at all. But either way - these senior engineers, just like the other teams, don't willingly tell everything about the car that will be presented in four weeks and is top secret. So sorry if I have to say it again - but these journalists who pretend to know all sorts of things are all vapor talkers who write made-up things. Because they don't know anything, just like nobody knows what the new Red Bull looks like. It's just the typical annual storytelling of Italian journalists who exploit the emotions of the millions of Ferrari fans in order to "make a splash".
What do you make of them getting fed info from Ferrari during the season then? How else do they release info about engine penalties, causes of DNFs, reasons behind pace issues in a session etc well before anyone else? There is clearly a special relationship
The same goes for formu1a.uno and AT, the only other Italian team. They reported immediately after Singapore that the rb19 suspension was brought; lo and behold they admit it at abu dhabi.
Now they write articles like this about Alpha Tauri in the off-season : "the first Racing Bulls car will have, in addition to the pull rod front suspension of the RB19, sidepods that are an evolution of those seen on the AT04 but with characteristics taken from Mclaren and Aston Martin ". I'm happy to revisit this if it proves wrong
AMuS and Alpine seem to have a similar relationship - willing to spill inside info on a select basis but nonetheless info that most publications would in no way have access to.
So I disagree that it's only Ferrari this happens with.
I agree Re: the off-season that it is prime time of year to take advantage of hopeful sentiment of the tifosi (and the same goes for every team), and that they are certainly capitalising on this. However I don't think all of their takes are so unbelievable. With one question you can ask: will the undercut be larger? And a vague answer like "yes, more like rb" can tell you many things: they have less outwashing sidepods, more undercut, anti-intrusion cone must be incorporated into the floor, must adopt a more conventional outer fence to compensate for less wake control from sidepod.. you see how it might happen? But it's not plucked out of thin air in my opinion
One final example: was it not in 2021 that none other than Nunges and Motorsport Italy reported that the F1-75 would have a triangular airbox? Yeah . Nothing ever leaks