It does look like they missed a chance to reduce wings, ie go for Australia/Miami spec. They can offset this if they go for S-M strategy tomorrow, maybe they will. We'll get to read post-q statements soon enough
It does look like they missed a chance to reduce wings, ie go for Australia/Miami spec. They can offset this if they go for S-M strategy tomorrow, maybe they will. We'll get to read post-q statements soon enough
If it's not even the rumored 0.25s, then that's surprising considering this was supposed to be their biggest update for the early part of the season (unless I am mistaken, and more is to come soon).
With the long run to T1 in Imola and (I'd imagine) a strong undercut, starting on the soft when others start on the medium could be a huge advantage for Ferrari and give them a decent chance to snag P1 into turn 1, assuming the other teams do indeed go for the more conservative M-H strategy. (and that Leclerc gets a good start, which the SF24 seems to struggle with)Vanja #66 wrote: ↑18 May 2024, 17:29If I counted correctly, they will have an extra new soft for tomorrow, since every Q3 car gets an extra q3 set of softs that gets returned after. They should try and use it in 1st stint, track is low deg, the car is low deg and they have used two-piece beam wing. -3kmh on main straight v McLaren and -9kmh v Max with Hulk's tow. Not sure why they are still running so conservatively, but it is what it is, maybe they did not expect the track will get so much quicker after FP2bananapeel23 wrote: ↑18 May 2024, 17:17So do we have any hope for tomorrow? Ferrari running mediums in q1 seems to suggest they have a different strategy in mind, right?
Agreed and same for Mclaren as they were P17-19 at the start of last season.
What a surprise. Italian media trying to sell papers. Run the same story several times and make the rumoured improvement bigger every time. People believe it because they want to. I said 2-3 tenths, it's probably towards the lower end of that range or even slightly less.
I have no clue, but it would make sense given the documented tyre warmup issues the SF24 has. It was great in sector 2 and 3, so tyres being cold in sector 1 seems to track, although some of the issues also come down to Ferrari lacking a little bit of top speed comapred to McLaren and Red Bull, especially compared to Red Bull since Max got a huge tow in sector 1.Silent Storm wrote: ↑18 May 2024, 18:03Alex Brundle on F1TV said Charles was understeering as he couldn't get front tyres upto temperature and had to add more steering lock which at times resulted in oversteer... Is that what Charles is reporting too?
Could you explain more ?AmateurDriver wrote: ↑18 May 2024, 17:48Ok you just don't want to get my point. It's up to you, I'm not here to make proselytism.Fakepivot wrote: ↑18 May 2024, 17:45I don't know Scuderia Ferrari were busy designing suv... okAmateurDriver wrote: ↑18 May 2024, 17:42McLaren F1 (let alone Red Bull) just shares a brand name with McLaren road car car business. Same for Aston. Not the case at Ferrari. And that has quite some consequences. That is my point.
he thinks they are no longer racing team. but no need argue against that since its his personal believe..
Sainz also said they were aware this track suits McLaren better. I think that they found some performance after all. What worries me the most is the the amount of progress Red Bull and McLaren make overnight, looking at track data: it seems to me that we start on fridays with a good base setup, but we fail to find something more during the weekend.