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[SoulPancake13]

All we know for now is that they made a setup change from Friday to Saturday, and it absolutely tanked the performance of the car. If indeed it was raising the car that did this, then we have a serious issue - raising the car a couple mm should not tank the pace like that. Let's see in China but I am anxious to say the least.

[Fakepivot]

At this point, only Hamilton's post race interview is giving me hope. He said something along the lines of 'I believe there is much more potential in the car' and he looked chill overall.

Im sure Lewis would bring some luck in this team so fingers crossed lol

Charles also said same. I mean we did see the potential on Friday. but yea really bad follow up after that. so far they have not admitted what went wrong.

[Luscion]

All we know for now is that they made a setup change from Friday to Saturday, and it absolutely tanked the performance of the car. If indeed it was raising the car that did this, then we have a serious issue - raising the car a couple mm should not tank the pace like that. Let's see in China but I am anxious to say the least.

the raising of the car for plank wear doesnt make sense to me, someone correct me if im wrong but the plank wear in Melbourne comes from riding the curbs, all indications pointed towards Ferrari expecting a wet race and in a wet race your going much slower and also not taking the curbs as much so that reduces plank wear right there and i doubt it would wear enough during the 6 runs in quali to get a DSQ, that usually a race distance concern, so yea why raise the car, if it was raised i really doubt it was a plank wear corcern.

[catent]

All we know for now is that they made a setup change from Friday to Saturday, and it absolutely tanked the performance of the car. If indeed it was raising the car that did this, then we have a serious issue - raising the car a couple mm should not tank the pace like that. Let's see in China but I am anxious to say the least.

the raising of the car for plank wear doesnt make sense to me, someone correct me if im wrong but the plank wear in Melbourne comes from riding the curbs, all indications pointed towards Ferrari expecting a wet race and in a wet race your going much slower and also not taking the curbs as much so that reduces plank wear right there and i doubt it would wear enough during the 6 runs in quali to get a DSQ, that usually a race distance concern, so yea why raise the car, if it was raised i really doubt it was a plank wear corcern.

I wonder if the gearbox theory has legs. That could be potentially alarming if so.

Haas also suffered this weekend, and they and Ferrari share an identical gearbox and rear suspension (Sauber shares the same gearbox internals but a different casing and rear suspension).

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[ScuderiaLeo]

Charles also said same. I mean we did see the potential on Friday. but yea really bad follow up after that. so far they have not admitted what went wrong.

I wouldn't put much weight into what the drivers say tbh. It's part of their job to stay positive.

[FittingMechanics]

Why wouldn't Ferrari explain that they had to raise the ride height because of risk of DSQ? Surely it would be a better look than what they had. Or if the gearbox is getting hammered, say that is the case and that they are working on a fix. Secrecy doesn't really help.

Maybe it's just something that they think can be quickly fixed so they can be quiet about it? Strange.

[Vinlarr89]

Why wouldn't Ferrari explain that they had to raise the ride height because of risk of DSQ? Surely it would be a better look than what they had. Or if the gearbox is getting hammered, say that is the case and that they are working on a fix. Secrecy doesn't really help.

Maybe it's just something that they think can be quickly fixed so they can be quiet about it? Strange.

Whats strange about it. Why on earth would they want to be completely transparent about what the issues might be? It’s for them to resolve behind closed doors, we’re just speculating remember

[FittingMechanics]

Whats strange about it. Why on earth would they want to be completely transparent about what the issues might be? It’s for them to resolve behind closed doors, we’re just speculating remember

In my opinion, it is worse that everyone thinks they built a sh**t car than that they have a slight issue with plank wear that they didn't figure out in time.

But I guess we can disagree.

[dialtone]

No team would come out and explain any of that, why would any team do it? They don’t really owe us anything.

I would love for them to know how to fix this still, don’t get me wrong.

[Cs98]

Why wouldn't Ferrari explain that they had to raise the ride height because of risk of DSQ? Surely it would be a better look than what they had. Or if the gearbox is getting hammered, say that is the case and that they are working on a fix. Secrecy doesn't really help.

Maybe it's just something that they think can be quickly fixed so they can be quiet about it? Strange.

Is there a difference between having to raise the car and lacking performance though? Everyone could gain extra time if they could run the car lower than legality.

[Macklaren]

If gearbox issue, did it have any connection to the gearbox problem that stopped HAM race run in Bahrain testing? If so, seems like it's not a quick fix because they have had 2 weeks

[jambuka]

The next two races are going to be crucial. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong in Australia. But those are incidental things. What is more important from the season's perspective is this.
1. What was the cause of performance dip from Friday to Saturday ? Was it something they had to do because they couldn't sort it in the weekend, or is it something bigger which they would need multiple races to figure out.
2. What the team thinks about their understanding of the car. Are they in Mercedes 2023 situation ?
3. If this chassis and concept turns out to be a lemon, what does it say about Ferrari's technical depth ? Do they have confidence they can get next year's concept right ?
4. Driver's seemed to be happy and even the technical team seemed to be satisfied after testing. But that did not translate to Australia.

[deadhead]

Isn’t China bumpy ? If the gearbox doesn’t like vibration that might be a factor next weekend

[deadhead]

Ferrari's technical depth ?

We’ve had about 18 years to assess that particular situation so I don’t think the next two races will show you anything we don’t already know.