"Incredible lack of movement/improvement in this area of the car for the last 3 years"
Not a native speaker but that's the gist of it.
I think their car changed the most so they are facing growing pains.PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑27 Feb 2020, 01:35The car has downforce. LeClerc and Vettel said it has the downforce. The problem they have is balance! And for me this is actually worse than lacking downforce. It means chronic development frustrations throughout the year. The better get on top of this before European leg before they are left a distance third in the champs. Hmm. Actually Racing point is looking a bit nifty...
SF1000 - New completely hydraulic third element or hydraulic commanded mechanism? The second option, that we "bet" during winter. Incredible immobility in this zone of the car during the last 3 years.
They're just doing what Mercedes usually does - running their own programme and not giving anything away. Then they'll turn it up and suddenly the media will be "oh wow, where did Ferrari's pace come from?"
I find encouraging how calm they look, if they had truly big problems the atmosphere inside the team would be terrible. They seem to have more downforce and I am sure that top-speed won´t be that bad. Maybe they have lost some top-speed in comparison to last season, but the loss may be quite reasonable, not so big.f1316 wrote: ↑27 Feb 2020, 02:53They’re saying the car has added downforce, is a step forward, but lacks top speed:
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/ferr ... s/4696974/
Funnily enough I find this the most encouraging thing I’ve heard about the car, since it rings completely false to me - I find it very difficult to believe that the design of this car has a massively higher drag coefficient than last year.
This makes me more inclined to believe Mercedes that Ferrari are running in low power mode and, if so, it would explain why their pace is only demonstrable in slow corners > if so, they’re not that slow after all.
I think Ferrari are going to great pains to keep expectations low and therefore any degree of competitiveness is seen as an ‘achievement’.
May it be that the hydraulic link is from the bottom side (not exposed on the photos)?
PG Tech today: https://www.f1analisitecnica.com/2020/0 ... 6474609375
Thanks to the wonderful image of our Alessandro Arcari we can definitely dispel the doubt: the third element on the Ferrari SF1000 has remained mechanical with hydraulic control. In a specification very similar to what we have already seen on the previous three Italian cars starting from the high performance SF70H.
Yes I saw that, the point was that we still see only 2/3 of it... it may be hidden behind (I don't say it is...)...jumpingfish wrote: ↑27 Feb 2020, 10:46PG Tech today: https://www.f1analisitecnica.com/2020/0 ... 6474609375
Thanks to the wonderful image of our Alessandro Arcari we can definitely dispel the doubt: the third element on the Ferrari SF1000 has remained mechanical with hydraulic control. In a specification very similar to what we have already seen on the previous three Italian cars starting from the high performance SF70H.
This phrase amuses me greatly, sounds to me they are kinda spitballing everything. Really, you cannot predict what adding more drag will do? Or is that your wind tunnel or cfd is so very bad that you cannot correctly calculate such values?"What are we lacking? The car of this season compared to the one of last season is overall faster, but we are faster in the corners, slower on the straights.
"This was as well an objective in designing that car. We knew last year that we were too slow in the corners, so we tried to put as much downforce as we could on the car to [make it] as fast as possible in the corners. But now we are paying [for it] on the straights.
I think it’s more that they’re talking to the media like idiots... which is required, because they are.Rikhart wrote: ↑27 Feb 2020, 12:15This phrase amuses me greatly, sounds to me they are kinda spitballing everything. Really, you cannot predict what adding more drag will do? Or is that your wind tunnel or cfd is so very bad that you cannot correctly calculate such values?"What are we lacking? The car of this season compared to the one of last season is overall faster, but we are faster in the corners, slower on the straights.
"This was as well an objective in designing that car. We knew last year that we were too slow in the corners, so we tried to put as much downforce as we could on the car to [make it] as fast as possible in the corners. But now we are paying [for it] on the straights.