The "due to changing the engine mapping" part reads like bs. First the story was the aero was too powerful for the suspension, and now it's the engine that's too powerful?Xyz22 wrote: ↑03 Aug 2025, 18:03This makes way more sense than the broken chassis.ScuderiaLeo wrote: ↑03 Aug 2025, 17:50
Russell of all people joining in... same theory as what Sky said earlier
What does Georges Rassel have to do with Ferrari propaganda? HUH?AR3-GP wrote: ↑03 Aug 2025, 18:12The "due to changing the engine mapping" part reads like bs. First the story was the aero was too powerful for the suspension, and now it's the engine that's too powerful?![]()
This entire season has been one massive propaganda campaign about "potential" in order to save face. They run the car in unsustainably low configurations to create the mirage of pace, and then covered it up with "brake issue", "chassis problem", "overheating". We saw the real picture of the season in Australia and the China Sprint.
The suspension from the promise land is on the car. The new floor is on the car. They still don't have any performance when the car is running at legal ride heights. So they run it extremely low because the floor doesn't work any other way. Ferrari would rather run the car like this and sell the narrative that the 1st stint was the "potential" instead of running the car at a higher ground clearance and struggling to make Q3. It's a face saving campaign full of fairy tales brought to you by Frederick Vasseur.
Ferrari was using a very conservative engine map in the main straight, on this Russell was right. And it was not due to LiCo. You can check by yourself with the telemetry.AR3-GP wrote: ↑03 Aug 2025, 18:12The "due to changing the engine mapping" part reads like bs. First the story was the aero was too powerful for the suspension, and now it's the engine that's too powerful?Xyz22 wrote: ↑03 Aug 2025, 18:03This makes way more sense than the broken chassis.ScuderiaLeo wrote: ↑03 Aug 2025, 17:50
Russell of all people joining in... same theory as what Sky said earlier![]()
This entire season has been one massive propaganda campaign about "potential" in order to save face. They run the car in unsustainably low configurations to create the mirage of pace, and then covered it up with "brake issue", "chassis problem", "overheating". We saw the real picture of the season in Australia and the China Sprint.
The suspension from the promise land is on the car. The new floor is on the car. They still don't have any performance when the car is running at legal ride heights. So they run it extremely low because the floor doesn't work any other way. Ferrari would rather run the car like this and sell the narrative that the 1st stint was the "potential" instead of running the car at a higher ground clearance and struggling to make Q3. It's a face saving campaign full of fairy tales brought to you by Frederick Vasseur.
I think most chanse fow win its Baku. But remember Spa, 0 problems in the last third race, no drop in pace, especially by 2 seconds, on the contrary, he was at the level of the McLarens fighting each other.ScuderiaLeo wrote: ↑03 Aug 2025, 18:21Last year Ferrari won Monza on a one stop and amazing tire management. Zero chance that happens again this season...
Russell's full quote makes more sense and backs this.Xyz22 wrote: ↑03 Aug 2025, 18:24
Ferrari was using a very conservative engine map in the main straight, on this Russell was right. And it was not due to LiCo. You can check by yourself with the telemetry.
Having said that i don't know what the issue was, i still think is related to plank wear.
The chassis was broken story is 99% fake.
He has no reason to lie about something like this.“The only thing we can think of is they were running the car too low to the ground and they had to increase the tyre pressures for the last stint,” he said. Russell said when he caught Leclerc he noticed Ferrari “were using an engine mode that was making the engine slower at the end of the straight, which is where you have the most amount of plank wear.”
“That’s the only thing we can think of based upon the lap times and the engine mode they were running and stuff like that,” he added.
I missed that Russell said this, but the sentiment is the same with everything that Ferrari has said all year about the issues. Now we are contending with "chassis damage", which was likely a consequence of running the car too low to get any performance out of it.yooogurt wrote: ↑03 Aug 2025, 18:17What does Georges Rassel have to do with Ferrari propaganda? HUH?AR3-GP wrote: ↑03 Aug 2025, 18:12The "due to changing the engine mapping" part reads like bs. First the story was the aero was too powerful for the suspension, and now it's the engine that's too powerful?![]()
This entire season has been one massive propaganda campaign about "potential" in order to save face. They run the car in unsustainably low configurations to create the mirage of pace, and then covered it up with "brake issue", "chassis problem", "overheating". We saw the real picture of the season in Australia and the China Sprint.
The suspension from the promise land is on the car. The new floor is on the car. They still don't have any performance when the car is running at legal ride heights. So they run it extremely low because the floor doesn't work any other way. Ferrari would rather run the car like this and sell the narrative that the 1st stint was the "potential" instead of running the car at a higher ground clearance and struggling to make Q3. It's a face saving campaign full of fairy tales brought to you by Frederick Vasseur.
The biggest problem of Ferrari is that they didn't talk about specific problems, the best we could find out was the inside information from Formula Uno, but even they complained that the team doesn't explain about the problems like Mercedes does after every Grand Prix. No one from the team said that the problem was in the plank or suspension.