Space-heat wrote: ↑12 May 2024, 14:02
It is interesting that comments have focused on the highspeed and potential improvement, considering Ferrari from a glance were 2nd/3rd best in this area (strongest in Miami, setup decision). Hopefully, there is progress in the slow speed which we seem to be the weakest point of the SF-24. We may have to wait until the next package for that.
3 things for me, tyre warm up, slow corners and efficient downforce, I feel they could easily gain 4 tenths by improving those points.
Even though overall they have qualified OK, tyre warm up is compromising their qualifying, it has been a little bit hit and miss, avoiding unnecessarily starting behind slower cars would improve the race management and pace, on a number of weekends so far at least one car has qualified behind slower cars and compromised their race.
The other thing with the tyres, while they appear to have excellent in-race tyre degradation, I also feel like they are not maximising the race tyre, maybe again because of not generating enough heat and falling short of fully using the tyres peak performance. At the very least they look like they are losing out in the initial warm up even with the race tyre.
Improving the cars slow corner performance would obviously further add to the cars performance.
Looking at the upgrade and the talk surrounding it, it looks like the car is going to be more efficient, more downforce or less drag for the same downforce.
What remains to be seen is how it now behaves on the tyres and how it behaves in slower corners...
