2024 Scuderia Ferrari F1 Team

[deadhead]

Strategy will be crucial here for the race tomorrow.

Qualifying is the most important thing here.

The race will likely be a 1 stop

[IntrinsicVoid]

amazing race between charles and lewis battle.. i think charles slow down massivly last lap due to low fuel i think he was told to look at dash board where to lico

A statement from both of them how to do a proper racing, really liked that.

Anyways this was earlier, the qualifications and race will be later so I don’t expect to have the same performance.. not that it was something spectacular.

[Fakepivot]

This is sprint races are so boring, just a long DRS train.

yup without pitstop its quite boring, i really hope they mandate 2 minimum pitstop like last year..

[deadhead]

https://x.com/Fred__18/status/1862861064863387771

You can clearly see from the telemetry how #Sainz has a first snap entering T1 and then a second much bigger one, and at that point #Leclerc has to raise many times, trying to reopen as much as possible, but at that point #QatarGP was bottled up.

[Sevach]

The pace is good, but how critical are the high positions here

If they can fix the understeer(with no downsides) Ferrari maybe will be able to join the battle.

In this track, overtaking is almost impossible.
Leclerc had a massive delta on Lewis and still had to discharge the entire electric boost despite being only 0.4s behind. The FIA completely --- with the DRS line.

Either we qualify well or is going to be very difficult.

Ferrari's DRS also didn't look super strong, the few times Russell had on Piastri he seemed to gain more.
Maybe consider going reverse strategy in one of the cars.

[ScuderiaLeo]

Really unfortunate with Sainz's lock up at the beginning, but thankfully Leclerc regained the position later. Great racing between Hamilton and Leclerc.

Still, this track is --- for overtaking, they absolutely need to do well in qualifying later...

Why did Leclerc's pace drop so much in the final lap? Did they tell him to be careful for some reason?

[Fakepivot]

Why did Leclerc's pace drop so much in the final lap? Did they tell him to be careful for some reason?

low fuel.. he was told to look at dash to where to lico

[killua]

Really unfortunate with Sainz's lock up at the beginning, but thankfully Leclerc regained the position later. Great racing between Hamilton and Leclerc.

Still, this track is --- for overtaking, they absolutely need to do well in qualifying later...

Why did Leclerc's pace drop so much in the final lap? Did they tell him to be careful for some reason?

He was told to back off on lap 19.

[Cs98]

Another good performance from Sainz, demonstrating his race pace with the old spec car.

[ScuderiaLeo]

Going through their post-race interviews now...

Leclerc said overtaking here is extremely complicated, he had to prepare for basically half the laps leading up to it. The straight line speed of the cars in front seemed to be better than theirs which also made things harder, and he doesn't think this will be changed for the race. Overtaking isn't realistic so qualifying and the race start are everything.

Sainz said that while their pace looks good, he doesn't think in a full race they can match McLaren unless they start ahead. His mistake at T1 was because of the dust on the track, but after that the car felt fine. While they can improve in qualifying, finding two tenths will be really difficult.

Both drivers said the team looked at a lot of data overnight and combined with what they learned from the race, maybe they can improve their qualifying later. They're taking a chance here by changing things, they aren't 100% positive it'll help, but they need to try.

[ScuderiaLeo]

Overtake



Now we wait for qualifying...

[IntrinsicVoid]

To be honest, they have nothing to lose, so better to try something rather than embracing the reality.

[ScuderiaLeo]

Even side seemed quite a bit worse today for starts. Russell, Sainz, and Verstappen all had difficulties getting off the line. Something to note for later. If pole isn't possible P3 might be best.

[dialtone]

Overtake



Now we wait for qualifying...

Absolutely a beauty. This is what leaving space for both drivers does to racing. More of this and less of divebombs and running others off track. unfortunately Russell gave an interview saying the opposite so I don’t have much hope.

[JPower]

Race pace.



If they can qualify, they can do well.