Clearly they see the inability of the suspension to cope with too much load as a hinderance in terms of brining further upgrades without inducing bouncing. They went with a suspension setup that didn't put too much energy into the tyres and expected that any tyre warming issues would resolve themselves by putting more downforce onto the car. Once they did start bringing upgrades that gave them more downforce, the car started suffering from bouncing..Bole wrote: ↑24 Sep 2024, 15:32Exactly what i am saying why do it now, its not like this car is far off the top that we need this kind of big change.
My speculation:
They have clearly partially resolved the bouncing issues and brought the car into a more workable window, but we don't know how large the compromises in peak downforce they had to make in order to get the car to work again. They are clearly suffering from warmup issues again, which they seemingly didn't post-Canada, pre-Monza. That would indicate that they were forced to give up a not insignificant of load in order to get the car to behave.
Taken as a whole, there seems to be a fundamental limitation with just how much downforce the car and suspension can cope with. They obviously have more than in Bahrain, but given the fact that the latest floor iterations have given up many local load generating elements like kicks, the suspension only seems to work with a very particular load distribution. Disturb that distribution by adding "easy" downforce through local load generating elements and the suspension simply seems to give up. There is probably more downforce they can gain within the narrow window where the suspension still works, but even more if they can bring a suspension setup that works in a wider load distribution window.
They probably want to change the suspension in order to make the car work in a wider load distribution window without inducing bouncing so that they can more easily extract performance from the floor. They seem to think the current suspension setup is fundamentally limiting the development potential of the car. Is it worth the risk? I have no clue, but Ferrari clearly seems to think so.
Vanja feel free to correct me if I'm just talking nonsense.
