Ferrari F14T

[Owen.C93]

Ok I now love the Ferrari, that blow off valve sounds delicious. (1min onwards)

[Ben27]

I'm a little nervous by how simple the car is in it's current iteration. I know it will change etc by Bahrain (Hopefully), but at the moment, it looks rather....pathetic!

I agree with you.
I hate above all the cooling outlet in the rear of the car, I think they could have set that cooling outlet next to the exhaust tailpipe. Thereby saving space to leave the air flow without impediments.
The front nose is awful, the Mercedes solution seems to be more refined.

[donskar]

I'm a little nervous by how simple the car is in it's current iteration. I know it will change etc by Bahrain (Hopefully), but at the moment, it looks rather....pathetic!

You're leaving yourself open to some criticism by referring to ANY F1 car as "simple," but let that go. Given the incredible complexity of the parts of the car we can NOT see (turbo, energy recovery systems, cooling systems, etc.), I am happy that the exterior of the car appears fairly clean and uncluttered (though ugly). IMHO, it will be beneficial to be able to focus more on the complex powertrain and leave the aero components for the guys in the wind tunnel.

[timbo]

Ok I now love the Ferrari, that blow off valve sounds delicious. (1min onwards)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4G5ORlCg1w#t=53

Exactly like that LaFerrari vid.

[ecapox]

Ok I now love the Ferrari, that blow off valve sounds delicious. (1min onwards)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4G5ORlCg1w#t=53

That's a pretty rad sound. I'm really liking all the sounds from everything going on mated to the engine rumble.

[F1.Ru]

Ferrari F138 versus F14 T - front view analysis


This drawing compares Ferrari's 2013 car, the F138 (left), with 2014's new F14 T (right). The F14 T's nose (1) doesn't follow the 'finger' design trend seen on several other 2014 cars, with Ferrari instead preferring a quite wide and flat configuration. The aim is clearly to channel air under the car, with the underside of the chassis following exactly the shape of the top surface, creating a step in the nose (as also seen on Force India's VJM07). This solution means the chassis underside is effectively just as high as in 2013 and allows Ferrari to optimize airflow under the car to better feed the rear diffuser. With the front wing (2) 15cm narrower than in 2013, the more complex endplates (3) have to work much harder to expel air to the outside of the front tyres. The wing assembly seen at the opening pre-season test in Jerez is all new, though another new layout is expected to appear at the subsequent Bahrain tests. For a third season Ferrari have retained pullrod front suspension (4) though with more aerodynamic benefit, adding a small flap to better direct airflow. The car also features new 'bridge' vertical turning vanes (5), while there are new restrictions on the rear wing assembly (6), with no more beam wings and the top wing reduced 2cm in section. Finally the airbox (7) has a new triangular shape.

© Formula1.com

[Forza]

Jerez T01 - Day 2

[f300v10]

James Alison says data corelation is good so far:

“We have obtained some good baselines from which to continue the development of the F14 T,” said the Scuderia’s Technical Director, talking to http://www.ferrari.com. “We are working mainly on car reliability and so far, we can claim to be reasonably satisfied because, even though we are talking about a car that’s almost totally new, we haven’t encountered any particular problems. We are also happy with the data parameters we have seen in terms of cooling, as well as those relating to aerodynamic downforce: both of them have matched our expectations.” - See more at: http://formula1.ferrari.com/news/alliso ... 4dykQ.dpuf

[Pilatus]

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Visible heat haze, presumably from exhaust.

[Forza]

Jerez Test 1 - Day 2

[f1316]

Gary Anderson saying Ferrari's giving up at the rear - as per last two year's cars.

Then again, if downforce figures are as expected it can't be much of a worry for them

[ecapox]

What does "giving up at the rear" mean?

[infy]

There is little to choose between the range of different nose solutions seen on this year’s F1 cars in terms of performance, according to Ferrari’s chassis technical director James Allison.

The radically different noses have attracted considerable attention, mainly due to their aesthetic shortcomings.

“If you look around in the pit lane you’ll see there’s a different nose on every car,” Allison commented. “And there’s not too much similarity between any of the cars.”

“The reason for that is the nose rules allow quite a lot of geometrical freedom. So you go off exploring that freedom. The reason there isn’t a single solution is it’s not actually that sensitive an area so there’s lots and lots of different solutions that work.

“I came from another team before [Lotus] and that has a very aggressive solution, worked on that at the team, and ours has got another solution.

“But there’s really not that much in that. They’re just things that are good to talk about because they’re right up at the front of the car.”

The new regulations has stripped the cars of much of their downforce. “If you want a sort of quick rule of thumb, look at the size of the rear wings,” said Allison.

“We’ve got rear wings that are more or less Canada-type rear wings. So that’s roughly where the downforce of the car is. And also there’s not the blowing floor as there [was] last year.”

But he said the team are making rapid gains in that area. “The rules are also new rules and new rules offer up new opportunities. The rate of finding downforce is quite steep – you never know where that will slacken off but there isn’t any sign of it at the moment.”

[infy]

He pretty much says the regulations took more rear downforce away than front downforce, forcing teams to focus on the rear more than the front.

[Italiano]

What does "giving up at the rear" mean?

Snap oversteer/loss of rear grip/general lack of rear grip.