Websta wrote:raymondu999 wrote:A radical change was always going to be risky. I think what most people are saying is that the F150 should have been kept on - just sans the EBD. It seemed pretty good "without" it at Silvy last year
It does look as though it would have been much better for Ferrari to develop the F150 rather than make radical changes. Is there a possibility for Ferrari to revert to a F150 tweaked to comply with the new rules?
It's a continually repeated fallacy to say that the cars ran without the EBD in Silverstone. They ran without off throttle blowing, but the exhausts were still in the same place and were still blowing the diffuser the moment the throttle was pressed.
The F150 was no more designed for not having a blown diffuser than any other car so wouldn't have necessarily made a better base. McLaren, for example, have changed their car quite radically from last year and look how that's worked out.
Ferrari's biggest problem is that they always seem to be surprised by what works and doesn't work on the car. They launched with a particular exhaust solution and have been moving it around and hacking at it ever since with no seeming direction to their changes. Again contrast to McLaren who launched with a concept, it broadly worked, they tweaked the exact angles a tiny bit but kept the overall position, and then they launched a refined version of it based on that fine tuning, and it all just worked.
I know this stuff is difficult and McLaren probably had at least a small element of luck, as demonstrated by Red Bull's exhaust struggles, but for the last few years Ferrari seem to have had almost no correlation between what their wind tunnel is telling them and what happens out on track. We're probably talking about a couple of percent difference, but in F1 that's an absolute gulf.
