2026 Scuderia Ferrari HP F1 Team

[woocasz]

Charles: "We are too slow before the Overtake activation…"

Bryan: "We can improve turn 11-12, push less."

push less to be faster...
2026 regulations

whovever said earlier, that Ferrari is not far off in terms of HP is delusional.

Piero is rolling in his grave...

[gearboxtrouble]

The way Hadjar just cruised past Charles down the straight is embarrassing after 2 ADUO upgrades. The strategy of deliberately sabotaging engine performance for questionably useful aero gains has been thoroughly discredited. Horner has his detractors, some of which is because he stood up to Toto and fought him politically to a level nobody else was able to do. Looking at his track record he's the greatest TP in modern F1 since Ross Brawn and it's not close. He took Red Bull from the disaster that was Jaguar to 2 separate eras of dominance and left them with an engine operation that's pulled off the best new manufacturer debut in F1 history. Ferrari would be insane to not hand him the keys if he was genuinely available.

[Hammerfist]

I don’t think this car is severely underpowered. It’s just a very draggy car. When I look at the haas they don’t seem to have a straight line deficit to the Merc powered cars in the midfield. Ferrari aduo upgrades have done zero to close the gap. So yeah the car is super draggy and it is overrated as a chassis. I don’t feel that it’s that competitive in the corners like people seem to say all the time. Just a lot of inefficient downforce. Clearrly the fourth best car now and alpine is catching up.
Hamilton was just so slow today and this weekend in general. You can’t hope to be a team leader and a championship contender when you put up weekends like this. Leclerc was in another league this weekend. Kudos to him. He drove his heart out but his car is limiting his progress. I guess for Ferrari the only positive is they did not make any strategy errors this weekend. Woopteedoo. Bring in Horner. They have to shake things up and I think he is the best person that can do that, as much as I dislike the guy as a person. You can’t argue he has a great racing mind and is a top notch team principal.

[AR3-GP]

Hamilton was just so slow today and this weekend in general. You can’t hope to be a team leader and a championship contender when you put up weekends like this.

Baku is just a Hamilton bogey track. Always has been. On the flip side, it's one of Leclerc's top 2 tracks.

[edu2703]

I'm convinced the SF-26 is currently the 4th best car at best, behind Mercedes, Red Bull, and McLaren.

Engine deficit exists, but the SF-26 is also overrated aerowise. As already mentioned, the car is simply draggy. 100% downforce, 0% top speed, and coupled with the engine deficit, it's humiliated on the straights by its rivals.

[Luscion]

Hamilton was just so slow today and this weekend in general. You can’t hope to be a team leader and a championship contender when you put up weekends like this.

Baku is just a Hamilton bogey track. Always has been. On the flip side, it's one of Leclerc's top 2 tracks.

Ham also had understeer issues almost the entire race, reporting massive understeer at one point during the second stint with Santi trying different modes to help but never did. Apparently Ham and Charles also had different setups, Lewis, high downforce, Charles with the Monza setup

[Luscion]

[AR3-GP]

Hamilton was just so slow today and this weekend in general. You can’t hope to be a team leader and a championship contender when you put up weekends like this.

Baku is just a Hamilton bogey track. Always has been. On the flip side, it's one of Leclerc's top 2 tracks.

Ham also had understeer issues almost the entire race, reporting massive understeer at one point during the second stint with Santi trying different modes to help but never did. Apparently Ham and Charles also had different setups, Lewis, high downforce, Charles with the Monza setup

I remember that now. I think it came up on the broadcast that he told the team that he "had no front" in one of the stints.

[mzso]

The way Hadjar just cruised past Charles down the straight is embarrassing after 2 ADUO upgrades. The strategy of deliberately sabotaging engine performance for questionably useful aero gains has been thoroughly discredited. Horner has his detractors, some of which is because he stood up to Toto and fought him politically to a level nobody else was able to do. Looking at his track record he's the greatest TP in modern F1 since Ross Brawn and it's not close. He took Red Bull from the disaster that was Jaguar to 2 separate eras of dominance and left them with an engine operation that's pulled off the best new manufacturer debut in F1 history. Ferrari would be insane to not hand him the keys if he was genuinely available.

All the technical development of Red Bull was lead by Newey, but he sure was instrumental in hiring him.
Unless he can attract a few great technical leaders into Ferrari, nothing will be different.

But I give him one things. He sure wouldn't have stayed silent like a mouse after such an ADUO fiasco like Mekies does.

[Luscion]

Charles said they must not lie to themselves, they no longer have the best chassis