For me, hype doesn't matter. The fact that this is the biggest upgrade package Ferrari has worked on for a long time is a fact.Space-heat wrote: ↑09 May 2024, 15:48Too much hype. One hope is that, it was mentioned in the first formula uno article on the overbite, that the RBR engineers Ferrari traded for Laurent Mekies (Ferrari were apparently already on the concept) they were able to input. Hopefully, they might have acted as a sanity check on the new direction from their experience in RBR.Xyz22 wrote: ↑09 May 2024, 15:28This is the biggest upgrade package Ferrari has worked on since i'd say 2012. In recent years, they have never brought a massive package to a single race weekend. The Spain update last year was an outlier as the goal was to start getting real track data on the downwash concept.
I can't wait to see the changes and the impact on car behavior. It will be a very significant test for the Technical team as well now that is completely under the leadership of Enrico Cardile.
I can not wait for Imola, but more nervous than anything for the implosion that will happen if they only deliver 1-2 tenths now that the bar has been raised. I would have felt much better if this ForumlaUno article dropped next week after the filming. Be interesting to see if their is a less enthusiastic brief next week to rein in expectations.
Moreover, we shouldn't "bet" everything on Imola. Maybe it will require 2-3 races to extract the full potential of the new car.
I don't care about the 0.3s/04.s/0.25s reports. If you look at Leclerc interviews in the last few rounds, you can easily see how high are the expectations internally in Ferrari.
We'll have to wait and see if everything goes according to plan and what they saw on the wind tunnel / simulator work as expected or maybe even better.