2026 Scuderia Ferrari HP F1 Team

[jambuka]

Will they go full beans with the engine in practice and put it to the limit ? Did we get any confirmation on steel cylinder ?

[AR3-GP]

To all readers of FUnoAnalisiTecnica

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It was a gentlemen's agreement between myself and the publisher, and no one on our editorial team thought that what has happened would occur. After the acquisition of the domain, the people responsible for AutoRacer have redirected the traffic from our site to theirs. And you can understand what that means.
We will restart shortly with our own portal.
In practice, FUnoAnalisiTecnica is dead.
You can imagine how serious what has happened is. And what you are being redirected to is not us.
As for the reasons behind such an operation, I leave every comment to you.

[wowgr8]

Wow. I remember that before PD and GD started their own website they used to write for FUnoAT. Seems like the split wasn't amicable at all. And why do the "takeover" now anyway? They've been split for like half a decade now and FUAT is a lot less popular than AutoRacer. Really odd. Bad look for them.

[Unc1eM0nty]

Looks like we miss the first day of testing. its planned move.

There are 5 days and you can participate on 3. How is it a miss?

Ummm, he could be right, Tuesday & Wednesday are looking wet right now

[Xyz22]

Looks like we miss the first day of testing. its planned move.

There are 5 days and you can participate on 3. How is it a miss?

Ummm, he could be right, Tuesday & Wednesday are looking wet right now

Good opportunity considering Ferrari has been awful in the wet since 2012

[sucof]

Rumours are, Hamiltons next race engineer might be coming from Mclaren, the performance engineer of Piastri.

[Espresso]

Rumours are, Hamiltons next race engineer might be coming from Mclaren, the performance engineer of Piastri.

Cedric Michel Grosjean.
https://x.com/GiulyDuchessa/status/2015 ... 72468?s=20

[DJ Downforce]

Ferrari waiting for some clarifications on their car developments. I wonder what they're trying to do

[AR3-GP]

What is the reason that Ferrari is not running today? The car was completed.

[Macklaren]

What is the reason that Ferrari is not running today? The car was completed.

Vasseur said they will run on Tuesday in the post shakedown videos. He didn't specify why but may have been weather related given that it was a moving target

[Peter Ian Staker]

Tuesday's weather sounds even worse...

[basti313]

Tuesday's weather sounds even worse...

Yes, that is a classic Ferrari choice. 15°C and rain...

Imagining with a lot of hand gestures:
“Ah, when-a might be da best time to run, eh?"
"Eh, Tuesday, of course! We were always-a good on Tuesdays.”

[sucof]

Tuesday's weather sounds even worse...

Yes, that is a classic Ferrari choice. 15°C and rain...

Imagining with a lot of hand gestures:
“Ah, when-a might be da best time to run, eh?"
"Eh, Tuesday, of course! We were always-a good on Tuesdays.”

I think weather plays very little role in this testing. Because nearly no one will push for lap times.
What they are doing is testing durability, and measuring everything they can if they correlate with their calculations, simulations.
Also, since most teams only run a primitive version of their concept, lap times do not matter anyways.
So Ferrari did not do anything wrong here. Too much negativity are here for them... and it is not constructive at all.
And remember, 1-2 teams will not even run in this test, or just a part of their allowed time... Ferrari are not the outliers here.

[dialtone]

Considering the engine behavior in cornering, wet weather practice for the drivers is probably a good thing.

[basti313]

Tuesday's weather sounds even worse...

Yes, that is a classic Ferrari choice. 15°C and rain...

Imagining with a lot of hand gestures:
“Ah, when-a might be da best time to run, eh?"
"Eh, Tuesday, of course! We were always-a good on Tuesdays.”

I think weather plays very little role in this testing. Because nearly no one will push for lap times.

I think this is just wrong.
We see laptimes, that are on the level of fastest laptimes of usual races, currently at nearly 10°C less air temp, much less track temp and harder tires. If anything, they were fast today.

What they are doing is testing durability, and measuring everything they can if they correlate with their calculations, simulations.

The last time it rained on a timed race in Barcelona was in 1996....back at the day they had really good rain tires and lost more than 20sec on the laptime in the dry.
If it is wet and cold, they will be running easily 30sec off the pace. Sorry, but you do not learn anything at this pace that they did not learn during the filming day.

I think it is very much overrated how much they would learn with running the car around the track just to do milage. Time is over when they needed to do stress testing on track. For the engine they will anyways have enough data with the others running.

And remember, 1-2 teams will not even run in this test, or just a part of their allowed time... Ferrari are not the outliers here.

I think Ferrari can compensate the half or full day lost by a bad decision. Maybe it is even the same as for McLaren, that they went on Saturday to AVL...maybe Ferrari is the team, that delayed McLaren.
I do not think Williams can compensate missing this test.