This forum contains threads to discuss teams themselves. Anything not technical about the cars, including restructuring, performances etc belongs here.
Totally unpredictable. Every variable seems to strongly affect it.
It's clear the performance is there...on a certain tire...on a certain track...at a certain temp...in certain weather conditions...with a certain setup...with which driver feels more comfortable that day.
FORMU1UNO:
"...the real next development package will be introduced after the summer break, currently planned for the Marina Bay street circuit – a track where Maranello expects to be competitive. In Maranello, however, they will try to anticipate the introduction, more easily in Azerbaijan while it appears somewhat more complicated already in Zandvoort
“We don’t have to overturn things, but take small steps” – the Team Principal himself underlined.
In Ferrari, in short, there is an ongoing development of decisions on the upgrade front because the priority, after the last “failed” package in Barcelona, is to bring new parts as soon as something is found that gives technical help to the car. In Belgium, on the other hand, some corrections are planned on the mechanical front , not necessarily connected to the bouncing problem and which will not be declared in the canonical FIA document of the pre-PL1.
"Budapest was not a circuit that penalized bouncing, even if there were positive responses. Spa will be a different circuit". New anti-roll springs should help the SF-24 to have a more stable platform and less restricted in the setup window."
Ferrari have still won more races since 2022 than anyone bar Red Bull.
That will change by the end of the year.
It's frustrating cuz Mclaren by their own account dont know exactly why their Miami upgrade was as effective as it was. It completely transformed the car, adding an incredible amount of performance and fixing basically all of its weaknesses in one go. That basically never happens in F1. And then Mercedes pops up and seems to have solved most of their issues as well, just with a somewhat smaller performance improvement.
Combined with Red Bull kind of stalling in development, these are all things that basically never happen. This season has been so bizarre.
Ferrari have still won more races since 2022 than anyone bar Red Bull.
That will change by the end of the year.
It's frustrating cuz Mclaren by their own account dont know exactly why their Miami upgrade was as effective as it was. It completely transformed the car, adding an incredible amount of performance and fixing basically all of its weaknesses in one go. That basically never happens in F1. And then Mercedes pops up and seems to have solved most of their issues as well, just with a somewhat smaller performance improvement.
Combined with Red Bull kind of stalling in development, these are all things that basically never happen. This season has been so bizarre.
That is what I was trying to point out a few posts before. The same season Ferrari did a big step, its competitors did a bigger step and that is very unusual.
Anyway, Merc will struggle again on bumpier tracks; McLaren engineers, if they really don’t know why the upgrades worked so well, will have issues with next upgrade steps.
We will see.
I think it is a bit of a myth that McLaren doesn't understand why their Miami upgrade was as effective. It all comes down from Stella saying that it looks like on track it is stronger than expected but that it can be explained because driver confidence can't be simulated. If the car was on edge and gains some performance (and stability), the gains may be larger than expected as the drivers can drive better.
All McLaren upgrades in last two years worked very well. I think it is very unlikely that they don't understand why.
