Scuderia Ferrari SF15-T

[emmepi27]

At the start, Nasr has damaged Kimi's front wing just a little. Kimi had all the profiles at his first pit stop, except the fin on the endplate's side (lap 18):


Probably he has lost the right upper flap on the 20th lap, going out of the track. Endplate was there. Pic from lap 27:


Lap 31: fastest lap for Kimi


lap 41: second pit for Kimi and he has lost the endplate too


Note: before the second pit stop Kimi was the fastest driver on track! What a shame...

[ringo]

The car seems to retain the qualities of last year. Its good on the tyres. And iy has also improved greatly in power and drivability. I think they are on the same power level as mercedes customer teams. However the flexibility of the ers may not be as good as the mercedes for now. But things are looking good for ferrari. And you would have thought that this years car would be the same thing as the last car based on who and when it was being developed from.

[f300v10]

Why did they make him stop in the end? Rear left tyre mounting problem? I was whatching the race and just before releasing him a mechanic was waving hands... after a couple of corners he stopped but couldn't understand why

Rear left badly fitted, unsafe release punishment avoided. Probably not an entirely loose wheel, but enough that they deemed it too risky to limp back. Shame, the SF15 seems to be a fine car and it held it's own against Williams.

What I too started noticing was that overtaking is very hard, something that Brundle mentioned. Cars living in the wake of other cars having trouble to cope. If this sticks into the European leg of the season, it may very well be a cringe worthy display in overtaking sometimes.

At least the SF-15T has a high enough top speed to make passing possible, a real week spot for Ferrari last year. The Ferrari PU in race trim seems to have closed most if not all the power gap to Mercedes.

[BlackSwan]

[tranquility2k4]

I think the SF15-T has a lot of potential. If you remember all the talk was that this car was running late and that the initial spec was not going to be anything spectacular. I think there will be some big upgrades aerodynamically to this car including a short nose, a more complex FW and more refinement in working the airflow to the diffuser. I believe with this and possibly some more good engine upgrades over the first half of the season they could be giving Merc a headache at a few races.

They're probably no more than 0.5 - 0.8 behind Merc in race trim at least. I can easily see how they can grab this time during a big upgrade to their aero. It could be that come Barcelona, they will be a force.

[poolboy67]

look how smooth the steering is for kimi now!
at 1.43 when kimi "over revs" the engine, to me that sounds really good actually. i hope they'll just up the fuel flow for 2017 so we can finally hear the engines rev to 15k.

[JimClarkFan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGUZqtD18dk
look how smooth the steering is for kimi now!
at 1.43 when kimi "over revs" the engine, to me that sounds really good actually. i hope they'll just up the fuel flow for 2017 so we can finally hear the engines rev to 15k.

That car looks great, one of the best they have made in a long time, it is very responsive.

If they had a merc power unit they might be competing with Merc for wins.

[markp]

The front wing is a new concept for Ferrari and good thing to see they did not spend Friday doing back to back tests against the old one. It looks basic so logical assumption is it gets more complex as they push the limits of this concept but who knows it may stay the same all year. If the nose changes do they alter the front wing concept again?

Back of the sidepods look large but depends on angles. Livery also changes perception of this as last year all black on the back made the back end look tighter. At launch they said this years is tighter so must be trick on the eye now back of sidepod is painted red.

[Lorenzo_Bandini]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10 ... =2&theater

Raikkonen second stint. It's shocking to see a Ferrari so good handling wise.

[ParkerArt]

Back on topic for the SF15-T, does anyone have the premium edition of the F1 app and could share with me the apex speeds for T5 and T10-T11? I have to believe that Ferrari is running more overall downforce than Williams is but Ferrari aren't miles behind on the speed traps. Since Williams are supposed to kept the high lift-to-drag ratio for their aero, I'm not sure if Ferrari are going with the same concept or their chassis is far more clever than I gave them credit for in the pre-season.

[Sevach]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10 ... =2&theater

Raikkonen second stint. It's shocking to see a Ferrari so good handling wise.

With a slightly damaged FW to boot.

[Juzh]

Back on topic for the SF15-T, does anyone have the premium edition of the F1 app and could share with me the apex speeds for T5 and T10-T11?

No data available for these corners. Check F1 sector times comparison topic for turns that are.

[Richard]

The car threads are for discussion about the features of the car. If your comment isn't about something on the car then it doesn't belong in this thread.

There's way too much hand wavy stuff in here about this car is LIGHT years ahead and miles behind last year. How is an upper case LIGHT YEAR any any different from a lower case light year? Also if it is light years ahead then it could have won the race before it started, also how did you see something that was moving faster than the speed of light? Maybe the time travelling capabilities explains the conversation about 2011?

Then we have a bunch of drivel about this car would win if it had a Merc PU. It doesn't. End of story.

I don't have time to clear out the rubbish just yet. I'll lock the thread to avoid further hot air.

[F1NAC]

Note sulfurous dust( is it?) At exhaust exit

[timbo]

Yeah, reminds me this:


These are RD-107A engines of Soyuz rocket.