From stars to pits; this might be the simplistic approach to summarize the monitor report of the prancing horse in current races, with the SF-24, which after giving immense pleasure to followers and Charles Leclerc himself in Monaco, appears to have out of the blue stalled, suffering from the bouncing issues that emerged with the brand new replace bundle launched in Barcelona.
Fred Vasseur takes inventory of the state of affairs
To attempt to reverse an more and more damaging development, the boys at Maranello determined to “sacrifice” a part of the Silverstone weekend, deciding to return to the outdated configuration on each automobiles from qualifying onwards, after a meticulous comparability within the first three observe classes with the goal of gathering information, and consequently solutions.
“The Silverstone end result was deceptive,” started Frederic Vasseur in an interview with Auto Motor und Sport, speaking concerning the drastic drop in efficiency by Ferrari in current races and the bouncing issues that emerged with the brand new aerodynamic bundle – “Now we perceive our current downside higher than earlier than this weekend. We needed to sacrifice Friday’s observe classes for that reason. Nonetheless, the teachings realized will assist us transfer ahead.” – the French supervisor identified.
“The place is the issue? The Barcelona replace is an enchancment on paper, and largely on the monitor as nicely. Sadly, the bouncing has returned in some quick corners, however not all. Since it isn’t reproducible within the wind tunnel, it’s obscure what causes it. The bouncing will increase the tire temperature and this has a price by way of lap time at different factors. That’s why at Silverstone we in contrast two totally different specs.” – he identified.
Ferrari hopes to at the least partially stem the phenomenon within the upcoming phases, with the brand new bundle to be reintroduced in Hungary: “Now now we have time till Budapest to discover a answer. Initially, we must determine to create a state of affairs with out bouncing, sacrificing a little bit of lap time. The purpose have to be to make use of an improve to unravel the causes liable for the bouncing.”
The Frenchman additionally added: “On the finish of final season, we had been already in a position to battle for pole place however we nonetheless had issues within the race. We recovered so much over the winter. This season we targeted extra on the race. That’s why the race tempo has been a bit larger in comparison with the ‘dry’ lap time.”
“Final yr we suffered in quick corners. It’s pure to pay a number of consideration to this space and work on it within the wind tunnel. That’s why plainly the strengths of final yr are actually a weak point. At the moment the grid is so compact you could not speak about strengths and weaknesses. When the distinction is barely two-tenths, one thing constructive can simply flip right into a damaging. However, the event phases have gotten seen once more. Up to now, virtually nobody observed two-tenths of progress. Now they will take you from fifth to first place or vice versa.” – the Ferrari workforce principal concluded forward of the Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest.
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