2026 Scuderia Ferrari HP F1 Team

[jumpingfish]

I hope Ferrari manages to maintain its advantage in the starting procedure and resist the other teams' calls under the guise of "safety concerns." As Verstappen said, those who think it's dangerous should start from the pit lane.

Let's hope it's not the only advantage they will have throughout the race

Exactly. And starting advantage (if it's really) can be heplful when overtakes become more difficult with these cars or in Monaco

[jambuka]

Car seemed competitive till today. Issue today and overall running wasn’t convincing.

[bluechris]

We will have our glory runs tomorrow with Leclerc i suppose.

[motobaleno]

Car seemed competitive till today. Issue today and overall running wasn’t convincing.

the hotlaps were not convincing. The long stints were extremely fast (of course if representative of race sim stints...thing that we cannot be sure of)

[SB15]

Great to see Lewis's confidence in the braking zones as I expected with these news regs. A driving style more preferential to the late-breaking technique, one that leans more towards understeer, is what these new cars prefer.

Also Antonelli's confidence is very apparent on corner entry which is not surprising since him and Lewis have "driving styles" that are closely related.

[dialtone]

Car seemed competitive till today. Issue today and overall running wasn’t convincing.

Yeah, I have some copium they have been experimenting today, clearly they reserved quite a big update package for this test session, their normal day to day program worked well for the first 2 tests and the first day. Hopefully they are now working towards more experimental part of their program and hence the hiccups.

[Fakepivot]

i thought race sim were not that bad, but fast lap did look bit shaky

[Luscion]

https://x.com/KemalSengulll/status/2024526501362696390

Although Ferrari couldn't spend the day as they wanted due to the morning's schedule, they were satisfied with the car's performance during the time they were on track. Tomorrow, the final tests will be held before Melbourne. Hamilton is currently happy with the overall driving feel of the car

Also according to Fred__18 Ferrari never went above 7th gear, can someone confirm?

[Fakepivot]

yes, you can check in f1insight hub, it shows lewis never went above 7

[dans79]

I wonder how much time that cost!

[dialtone]

I wonder how much time that cost!

Quite a bit as you don’t recharge the battery well since you use it more on the straights.

[Emag]

I wonder how much time that cost!

Probably need to check last week’s runs. If he was down on PU mode its actually worse to go to 8th, assuming their 8th gear is rather long.

[Luscion]

yes, you can check in f1insight hub, it shows lewis never went above 7

ah didnt know that, thanks

[matt_b]

Car seemed competitive till today. Issue today and overall running wasn’t convincing.

Yeah, I have some copium they have been experimenting today, clearly they reserved quite a big update package for this test session, their normal day to day program worked well for the first 2 tests and the first day. Hopefully they are now working towards more experimental part of their program and hence the hiccups.

They were indeed experimenting today "running several set up options and assessing how the tyres behaved" to quote the team

[catent]

A friendly reminder that Mercedes is not the only team capable of sandbagging.

Since Vasseur's arrival, it seems fairly clearly that Ferrari often hide their potential in noncompetitive sessions.