2024 Scuderia Ferrari F1 Team

[LM10]

I can’t remember when was the last time Ferrari finished the season with one of the fastest if not the fastest car of all.

Both 2017 and 2018 the car was competitive until the end, even 2010. At the moment, this kind of finish seems certain. 2008-level competitivness needs to be proven still

True, 2017 and 2018 were pretty good seasons too (still a very big fan of the SF70H, as a side note… what a beast that was ). However, there still was something missing compared to now. The team has not felt so complete in ages. Not only the car, but all the other parts of the team are functioning - upgrades work, strategies make sense, drivers make much less mistakes, Leclerc’s finally gotten a race engineer who knows what to do other than saying “copy” and “we’re checking”, the working environment seems to be nice, the mindset is the right one etc. The team is slowly tuning into a well oiled machine.

[ScuderiaLeo]

True, 2017 and 2018 were pretty good seasons too (still a very big fan of the SF70H, as a side note… what a beast that was ). However, there still was something missing compared to now. The team has not felt so complete in ages. Not only the car, but all the other parts of the team are functioning - upgrades work, strategies make sense, drivers make much less mistakes, Leclerc’s finally gotten a race engineer who knows what to do other than saying “copy” and “we’re checking”, the working environment seems to be nice, the mindset is the right one etc. The team is slowly tuning into a well oiled machine.

I am very appreciative of Bozzi (Leclerc's race engineer) nowadays... I never had a large issue with Xavi but now that we have Bryan, I realize Leclerc was settling for second best for way too long.

Yes, there are still communication issues sometimes and Bozzi hasn't been perfect, but him and Leclerc get along well and Leclerc is more casual with him than he was with Xavi. Leclerc also gets frustrated quite easily (as many F1 drivers do) but he seems to respond well to Bozzi's encouraging comments and reassurance. Xavi would often just let him rage which was not always productive.

It really does feel like we're undergoing a butterfly transformation with Ferrari right now. I hope people remember this happiness and optimism when a bad race inevitably happens, and don't immediately rush to bashing the team.

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“You have to be creative,” Vasseur says when asked about the subject. Vasseur replies when asked about the subject. The implied answer makes it seem that in Maranello has been working on suspension springs and dampers, which are necessary to stabilize the surface at a constant height from the ground and positions for a better compromise between mechanical grip and aerodynamic load. This area is already the subject of several interventions by teams during the season. “It's not that if we don't declare something, we don't bring anything new “, reiterates the team manager. “What we do announce are just changes to the external forms”.

https://www.formulapassion.it/f1/f1-new ... ti-vasseur

Following the great performance from the car and the team last weekend, it’s fun to remember how the so-called (internet) experts had conclusively determined that the lack of performance last year and beginning of this year was down to the car missing either RBR’s anti-dive front suspension geometry—even if, ironically, they use little ant anti-dive effect—or pullrod/pushrod FR/RR suspension, or that the suspensions were ‘overloaded’ due to the lack of FR/RR pull/push arrangement. I’m also probably missing some of the other perceived magic bullets the reds were lacking.

It would seem that ultimately it was a lot of work to refine the aero, the spring/damper rates and the analytical tools used—absent the possibility of testing in WT or other—to predict the dynamic behaviour of the car and tune out or better control the undesirable characteristics, including the bouncing, that was the real solution and the results we witnessed as proof of the effectiveness of this work.

[deadhead]

You know things!

Leclerc didn't send it though he switched back to racing line before the apex after seeing Verstappen line up to get Norris on the inside. Sainz got stuck from P3, just like Leclerc did in Sprint.

Right yes he went with the more... elegant approach

https://x.com/leclercsletters/status/18 ... 0449978382