2024 Scuderia Ferrari F1 Team

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There is no way they would use it in the only practice session if it was not planned to be carried forward to the sprint at least

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Leclerc will use the floor. Makes 0 sense to try it and not use it in FP1 on a sprint weekend.

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I don't think the floor itself gave a huge performance boost. But it gave a confidence boost which is essential, maybe even more important than pure pace.

The AR article said Leclerc using the floor or not is up to him, so we'll see.

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https://x.com/fred__18/status/186251411 ... 2n8am2mMAg


- it is also evident from the gap line how the PU level is very similar between #Ferrari and #McLaren , but how much #Leclerc comes out from T6 onwards, including a sensational advantage in the fast triple of S3. On the one hand it is definitely probable that McLaren has more than Ferrari in its pocket, on the other hand some of the red's weak points do not seem so weak after all
- The indicators also seem to point to a higher aero load for the #SF24 . Perhaps the experimental bottom works better than expected. However, these are indicators to be taken with a pinch of salt in free testing.
- Looking at the short step sim, you notice #Piastri very fast. #Mercedes both similar and with an excellent performance, #Verstappen has a perfect progression but with much higher times than the competition (tried with a full tank?).
- Ferrari has done very little race sim, but it seems to be part of an aggressive strategy with a view to working on the single lap to maximise the sprint and then using the sprint itself as further confirmation of some choices in the long runs, also considering that the impression is that this weekend the Maranello team has an excellent correlation.
We see

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ScuderiaLeo wrote:
29 Nov 2024, 17:40
I don't think the floor itself gave a huge performance boost. But it gave a confidence boost which is essential, maybe even more important than pure pace.

The AR article said Leclerc using the floor or not is up to him, so we'll see.
The Ferrari seems very driveable to begin with anyway. I don’t think that is it.

From what I’ve read on this forum over the season, Ferrari is slightly behind Red Bull and McLaren in terms of downforce.

Surely this upgrade is targeting mostly aerodynamic load?

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bananapeel23 wrote:
29 Nov 2024, 18:00
The Ferrari seems very driveable to begin with anyway. I don’t think that is it.

From what I’ve read on this forum over the season, Ferrari is slightly behind Red Bull and McLaren in terms of downforce.

Surely this upgrade is targeting mostly aerodynamic load?
The reason I said this is because after Mexico and Vegas qualifying, Leclerc said he hasn't been comfortable in the car recently. But today he looked like he was completely dialed in. Very confident even when he made mistakes.

Hopefully the temperature drop doesn't change too much for Ferrari.

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bananapeel23 wrote:
29 Nov 2024, 18:00
Surely this upgrade is targeting mostly aerodynamic load?
FORZA FERRARI!

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Could be the case where they didn't add a ton of actual downforce, but the window for usable downforce opened allowing for more performance. Sainz alluded to this with the Monza update as well - this may be the philosophy going forward

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What the --- is going on lmao?

Why are we this quick?

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codetower
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Are they still mandating a three stop race this year? Probably why they stuck with the hards. They could have two fresh M for the race.

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codetower wrote:
29 Nov 2024, 18:42
Are they still mandating a three stop race this year? Probably why they stuck with the hards. They could have two fresh M for the race.
No

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codetower wrote:
29 Nov 2024, 18:42
Are they still mandating a three stop race this year? Probably why they stuck with the hards. They could have two fresh M for the race.
Race will be 1 stop prolly.
FORZA FERRARI!

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It was not an easy choice, so much so that it was made only a little more than half an hour before the QP Sprint, after a long analysis of FP1 data: Leclerc will use in QP and the Sprint the new floor. (c) Donadoni
FORZA FERRARI!

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Hold your horses guys. McLaren often makes a massive step from FP to qualifying.

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Watched the replay of FP1.

Hinchcliffe said Ferrari is a bit twitchy in T4, although I didn't see much of that in the soft runs but LEC made an error in entry to T5 on his fast lap where he took too much kerb and had to lift a bit, so maybe there's something to it.
LEC also complained that he had a bit too much traffic in S1 on his lap so he couldn't take the best line in T2-3.
T10-16 looked really good, but Lando was nowhere close to the kerbs in those corners, he was going slow but it's hard to know if it's due to lack of confidence/car or simply he wanted to go slow there.

That still looked like a very easy lap to put together. My hopes aren't up yet, but certainly encouraging FP1.