2024 Scuderia Ferrari F1 Team

[Sphere3758]

You can’t fault any team for going after the most successful driver the sport has ever seen, but to be honest I am not sure at this point if it will turn out great for Ferrari or not. They had a pretty balanced driver pairing and I don’t think they would even need to enforce team orders if a title fight emerged because (in my opinion) Charles is a step above Carlos and would be the one to be in front more often.

Whereas with two really competitive drivers, you run the risk of them taking points out of each-other and give up the wdc to some other consistent opponent.

But if next season is anything like this one, then it might turn out to be a little stressful.

Yeah the current driver pairing was just perfect, and Ferrari don't need LH from a marketing POV either, the F1 team is no longer the driving force for road car sales, it's a pointless and extremely costly move both financially and in terms of team dynamics. Plus honestly I think it's a bit embarrassing for Ferrari to sign someone who won all their titles with a different team, you can't brag about those championships, they are Merc/McLaren titles, same with Seb's and RB

I still believe that the reason was to attract top engineers to move to Maranello. By having the best driver lineup on the grid (perhaps the best in a very very long time), the hope was to get engineers on the fence to make the jump.

The problems you envisage are a real possibility, but those are the good kind of problems for a team to have. Ferrari would rather have the fastest car and deal with driver relations than let another team have the best engineering talent.

[Vanja #66]

Or could they just load a front wing up with a ton of load and have it flex back to generate the same downforce at high speed as now, just even more of it in the low/medium speed stuff?

This is a far more likely goal

[Xyz22]

A fully new front wing would be a significant upgrade on paper.

[ScuderiaLeo]

Also according to Formu1a.uno, the new wind tunnel will become operational within the next few days!

[Fakepivot]

so they will wait until new wind tunnel update to work on front wing? hopefully by Singapore

[Vanja #66]

If Austin is the target, it probably can be done in updated WT but only just. If they bring it in Singapore it was in development for a long time. This makes it very unlikely, as they just brought the Monza updates. It would have been too risky to develop a new wing for the new floor which wasn't validated on track. If even a tiny thing went wrong and missed correlation, those development runs would have been wasted.

Seeing how much they are pushing with upgrades this year, Austin looks like the most likely target, even if it's a Sprint weekend. Next weekend is Mexico, a track without long radius corners and very high altitude, making aero validation very risky

[Luscion]

[Chuckjr]

Yeah the current driver pairing was just perfect, and Ferrari don't need LH from a marketing POV either, the F1 team is no longer the driving force for road car sales, it's a pointless and extremely costly move both financially and in terms of team dynamics. Plus honestly I think it's a bit embarrassing for Ferrari to sign someone who won all their titles with a different team, you can't brag about those championships, they are Merc/McLaren titles, same with Seb's and RB

I stated all these points when Lewis signed yet many here are convinced it’s a great move. Like you, I don’t see it. I think Ferrari has just welcomed a trojan horse to the tune of nearly half a billion. It’s insanity.

[catent]

Yeah the current driver pairing was just perfect, and Ferrari don't need LH from a marketing POV either, the F1 team is no longer the driving force for road car sales, it's a pointless and extremely costly move both financially and in terms of team dynamics. Plus honestly I think it's a bit embarrassing for Ferrari to sign someone who won all their titles with a different team, you can't brag about those championships, they are Merc/McLaren titles, same with Seb's and RB

I stated all these points when Lewis signed yet many here are convinced it’s a great move. Like you, I don’t see it. I think Ferrari has just welcomed a trojan horse to the tune of nearly half a billion. It’s insanity.

Feeling the signing wasn’t worth it, fine.

Calling Hamilton a “trojan horse” is a step too far short of evidence.

It’s clear you do not care for Hamilton personally and think him a malicious presence, but that’s just a (rather negative) opinion.

[Chuckjr]

Yeah the current driver pairing was just perfect, and Ferrari don't need LH from a marketing POV either, the F1 team is no longer the driving force for road car sales, it's a pointless and extremely costly move both financially and in terms of team dynamics. Plus honestly I think it's a bit embarrassing for Ferrari to sign someone who won all their titles with a different team, you can't brag about those championships, they are Merc/McLaren titles, same with Seb's and RB

I stated all these points when Lewis signed yet many here are convinced it’s a great move. Like you, I don’t see it. I think Ferrari has just welcomed a trojan horse to the tune of nearly half a billion. It’s insanity.

Feeling the signing wasn’t worth it, fine.

Calling Hamilton a “trojan horse” is a step too far short of evidence.

It’s clear you do not care for Hamilton personally and think him a malicious presence, but that’s just a (rather negative) opinion.

This is driver yin yang and isn’t allowed on F1 tech so I’ll simply say we all have our likes and dislikes. It’s normal in sport and adds to the variety of it all. If we all agreed it would be quite boring, tbh. We will find out if he’s a trojan horse that will harm the flow of the team next year, and my bets are he absolutely will be.

[j_ste]

I stated all these points when Lewis signed yet many here are convinced it’s a great move. Like you, I don’t see it. I think Ferrari has just welcomed a trojan horse to the tune of nearly half a billion. It’s insanity.

Feeling the signing wasn’t worth it, fine.

Calling Hamilton a “trojan horse” is a step too far short of evidence.

It’s clear you do not care for Hamilton personally and think him a malicious presence, but that’s just a (rather negative) opinion.

This is driver yin yang and isn’t allowed on F1 tech so I’ll simply say we all have our likes and dislikes. It’s normal in sport and adds to the variety of it all. If we all agreed it would be quite boring, tbh. We will find out if he’s a trojan horse that will harm the flow of the team next year, and my bets are he absolutely will be.

Mate, you have to understand what the meaning of a Trojan horse is. Unless you actually think he is going to ferrari with the strict intent of ruining the team…which would be a level of crazy that must come with its own fan fiction. And I would love to read it.

He is going to ferrari because Mercedes didn’t give him what he wanted. And Ferrari want their Ronaldo to Juventus…simples.
Hopefully it ends better than Ronaldo to Juve did

[AR3-GP]

There was a thread created to discuss Hamilton and Ferrari. It is here: viewtopic.php?t=31570&start=60

[Waz]

Or could they just load a front wing up with a ton of load and have it flex back to generate the same downforce at high speed as now, just even more of it in the low/medium speed stuff?

This is a far more likely goal

That would seem to be the exact reason to develop flexi aero, to get the best of both worlds

[deadhead]

https://x.com/ferrarif1fra/status/18336 ... 2n8am2mMAg

“It should also be noted that Ferrari was lacking a specialist in vehicle dynamics and suspensions, they sought one of the best if not the best, Loïc Serra. Aerodynamically speaking, the team has always been interesting by showing great things.”

[Xyz22]

Got interesting footage from Multiviewer.



The green bar is the throttle application, and Leclerc is second from the top. Why do you think he uses so much throttle in the corners? Way more than Norris behind, for example.