Ferrari SF1000

[MtthsMlw]

SF1000

via @FunoAT
SF90

Exhaust and wastegate are placed differently. Possibly due to changes of the gearbox.

[Ringleheim]

Who saw the "THE RACE" video on youtube? The old Autosport guys...

Gary Anderson tried to adjust everyone's times for tires and fuel.

He has Mercedes #1 at 1'16.432, Red Bull second, RACING POINT THIRD, and Ferrari NINTH down at 1'18.289.

[Ringleheim]

SF1000
https://www.f1analisitecnica.com/wp-con ... scaled.jpg
via @FunoAT
SF90
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/th ... ?s=612x612
Exhaust and wastegate are placed differently. Possibly due to changes of the gearbox.

Lovely photographs, thanks for posting.

The caliber of craftsmanship and detailed work that goes into these cars just keeps getting better and better all the time.

They always looked perfectly manufactured too back, say, in the 1990s, but by today's standards they were fairly crude.

[Ringleheim]

If this car is a flop. they should instead focus on 2021.....

And being beaten by energetic drink makers? Brand like Ferrari can not to let it be like that, even from marketing point of view.

I have heard many pundits mention so far that most teams are going to adopt this type of attitude this year. In other words, everyone is expected to front-load their development...bring a lot of stuff fast and early and hope for the best. And then at the first sign that it's not enough...abandon this year entirely for a 100% focus on 2021.

I believe Ferrari should do that, if it would help develop the 2021 car substantially.

The benefits of a good car this year will last 1 season; the benefits of getting it right next year might last for the duration of the next 2021 formula, as Mercedes has enjoyed a big lead throughout this hybrid era.

[LM10]

Who saw the "THE RACE" video on youtube? The old Autosport guys...

Gary Anderson tried to adjust everyone's times for tires and fuel.

He has Mercedes #1 at 1'16.432, Red Bull second, RACING POINT THIRD, and Ferrari NINTH down at 1'18.289.

What kind of an adjustion was that? The time from Ferrari is basically the one they clocked in testing without intending a performance run. These times say nothing. Don't know how you can adjust them without knowing the fuel load and power the cars run in the first place.

[Ringleheim]

From the Leo Turrini blog:

"The first aerodynamic package of the SF1000 does not work. So far the problems of 2019 have not been solved. The car suffers from understeer and the performance on the dry lap are still far away from the Mercedes (and Red Bull) levels."

Turrini, a Ferrari insider, had reported a few weeks ago that the SF1000 had not achieved the expected results in the wind tunnel.

https://www.quotidiano.net/blog/turrini ... tto-5.6175

I know it is just testing, and it is still early, and the season hasn't even begun, and all the teams will engage in a lot of development work. But...

I have seen enough! This Ferrari doesn't have it, and when a design is off out of the box in fundamentals, incremental tweaks later on don't really help.

It kind of sucks when you can hand Mercedes another championship before the season starts! I thought it was kind of boring when Ferrari clinched the championship in July at Magny-Cours back in 2002!

But this is a lot worse.

[Ringleheim]

Who saw the "THE RACE" video on youtube? The old Autosport guys...

Gary Anderson tried to adjust everyone's times for tires and fuel.

He has Mercedes #1 at 1'16.432, Red Bull second, RACING POINT THIRD, and Ferrari NINTH down at 1'18.289.

What kind of an adjustion was that? The time from Ferrari is basically the one they clocked in testing without intending a performance run. These times say nothing. Don't know how you can adjust them without knowing the fuel load and power the cars run in the first place.

Watch the video! He did mention that you obviously have to make some guesses and we don't know fuel loads, etc., but you can try to adjust for tire compound which is known, etc.

This comes from Gary Anderson; he's a clever guy and designed the Jordan 191 among other things, so he's not some idiot Autosport writer.

[LM10]

Who saw the "THE RACE" video on youtube? The old Autosport guys...

Gary Anderson tried to adjust everyone's times for tires and fuel.

He has Mercedes #1 at 1'16.432, Red Bull second, RACING POINT THIRD, and Ferrari NINTH down at 1'18.289.

What kind of an adjustion was that? The time from Ferrari is basically the one they clocked in testing without intending a performance run. These times say nothing. Don't know how you can adjust them without knowing the fuel load and power the cars run in the first place.

Watch the video! He did mention that you obviously have to make some guesses and we don't know fuel loads, etc., but you can try to adjust for tire compound which is known, etc.

This comes from Gary Anderson; he's a clever guy and designed the Jordan 191 among other things, so he's not some idiot Autosport writer.

I can remember his adjustments last season when he told Ferrari was way ahead. Gary Anderson might have been a clever guy back then, but I'm not sure about now anymore. He suggested the McLaren of 2018 to be very fast. We all know what happened.

[Ringleheim]

Bad news from Mattia Binotto...as mentioned just now during Sky Sport's televised Testing. I"m watching online. Mentioned by Ted Kravitz...

The car is not a Mercedes beater now, but may be by the end of the season.

Will the car be new or different next week at the second test? No, this is the car we will take to Melbourne, with a few changes.

Mood is said to be downbeat.

GREAT.

Still doesn't mean anything, Mercedes said the same last year, and look what happened in Melbourne. Don't read to much in the comments of Mattia.

Everyone is reading something into the comments, including all the reporters who know these guys on a personal level. No one thinks it's a bluff.

Ted Kravitz mentioned how Vettel is incapable of not perfectly telegraphing his emotions and you always know exactly how he is feeling. He is always either "happy, fun" Vettel, depressed, dark Vettel, or a little something in between.

Ted said right now Vettel is somewhere between depressed and "in between". I.E., he's not happy b/c he knows the car doesn't work.

Those Ferrari guys all know what was wrong with last year's car, they all know what they wanted to fix, they all know what the plan was, and they have just turned hundreds of laps on a dry track with good weather. If the car is not there, they are all going to know it.

Either the car is a disappointment (if not complete failure) or the entire team is putting on the most cleverly conceived hoax and acting job F1 has ever seen.

Watch Binotto deliver those comments! He sounds like he just found out his child died.\

Which in a sense, may be true, seeing as he is the father of the car.

[Mr.G]

Bad news from Mattia Binotto...as mentioned just now during Sky Sport's televised Testing. I"m watching online. Mentioned by Ted Kravitz...

The car is not a Mercedes beater now, but may be by the end of the season.

Will the car be new or different next week at the second test? No, this is the car we will take to Melbourne, with a few changes.

Mood is said to be downbeat.

GREAT.

Still doesn't mean anything, Mercedes said the same last year, and look what happened in Melbourne. Don't read to much in the comments of Mattia.

Everyone is reading something into the comments, including all the reporters who know these guys on a personal level. No one thinks it's a bluff.

Ted Kravitz mentioned how Vettel is incapable of not perfectly telegraphing his emotions and you always know exactly how he is feeling. He is always either "happy, fun" Vettel, depressed, dark Vettel, or a little something in between.

Ted said right now Vettel is somewhere between depressed and "in between". I.E., he's not happy b/c he knows the car doesn't work.

Those Ferrari guys all know what was wrong with last year's car, they all know what they wanted to fix, they all know what the plan was, and they have just turned hundreds of laps on a dry track with good weather. If the car is not there, they are all going to know it.

Either the car is a disappointment (if not complete failure) or the entire team is putting on the most cleverly conceived hoax and acting job F1 has ever seen.

Watch Binotto deliver those comments! He sounds like he just found out his child died.\

Which in a sense, may be true, seeing as he is the father of the car.

Try to read this - https://www.mercedesamgf1.com/en/news/2 ... s-learned/

[Dream Theater]

This comes from Gary Anderson; he's a clever guy and designed the Jordan 191 among other things, so he's not some idiot Autosport writer.

You must be really new to the F1 world, because you should know that, despite being an extremely clever guy, Gary Anderson, more often than not, wrote and said completely wrong things about F1 in general (especially during the pre-season testings).
Being clever doesn't guarantee anything in a so complex world like F1, so, what Gary said, doesn't prove anything.

Either the car is a disappointment (if not complete failure) or the entire team is putting on the most cleverly conceived hoax and acting job F1 has ever seen.

Yeah, yeah, it's quite obvious that you don't remember the extremely well crafted sandbagging done by Mercedes in 2019 pre-season testings, where Toto Wolff spoke exactly like Binotto did this year.

[PhillipM]

This comes from Gary Anderson; he's a clever guy and designed the Jordan 191 among other things, so he's not some idiot Autosport writer.

This is the same guy that said Mclaren was going to be fighting with Williams last year.

[pantherxxx]

Who saw the "THE RACE" video on youtube? The old Autosport guys...

Gary Anderson tried to adjust everyone's times for tires and fuel.

He has Mercedes #1 at 1'16.432, Red Bull second, RACING POINT THIRD, and Ferrari NINTH down at 1'18.289.

He's got one thing wrong. We don't know the fuel (and engine) levels.

[timbo]

he's a clever guy and designed the Jordan 191

He also designed 192 and 193

The times mean nothing at this point.
Slightly worrying is that they are more than a hundred laps shorter in the accumulated track time than Merc and RB.

[Sevach]

Given Anderson's recent streak we should expect Ferrari to steamroll everyone.