2024 Scuderia Ferrari F1 Team

[101FlyingDutchman]

He’s always been on it. He was great at Macca and very decent considering he joined FER and has been there or thereabouts right from the get go. The only ones throwing shade at him have an agenda and biased view on proceedings. He’s a very good driver. End of.

[Vanja #66]

One of the few 100% valid laps from 2024 FP1 was Leclerc's lap on Softs. Unfortunately, we can't compare Sainz' 23 and 24 FP1 laps because of these telemetry issues, but both of them were flat 2s quicker than same time last year.



Massive time was gained in T2 (exit of Turn 1), Esses and Dunlop curve with the speed carried over, T14 (Spoon exit) and Casio chicane. T2, Dunlop and T14 is where Ferrari gained more than RB did from last year, since RB was 1.6s quicker than last year FP1. Overall, seems like the track was at least 1s quicker in FP1, likely more. Everyone was flying basically, Russell was 2.8s quicker than last year.

Also Ferrari ran higher PU mode last year, being considerably faster even with bigger wing on every straight. Judging by Marko's repeated comments, seems RB can't accept Ferrari finally catching up on low drag car design

[Xyz22]

One of the few 100% valid laps from 2024 FP1 was Leclerc's lap on Softs. Unfortunately, we can't compare Sainz' 23 and 24 FP1 laps because of these telemetry issues, but both of them were flat 2s quicker than same time last year.

https://i.ibb.co/cFg6Wsf/jpn-lec-23-24.png

Massive time was gained in T2 (exit of Turn 1), Esses and Dunlop curve with the speed carried over, T14 (Spoon exit) and Casio chicane. T2, Dunlop and T14 is where Ferrari gained more than RB did from last year, since RB was 1.6s quicker than last year FP1. Overall, seems like the track was at least 1s quicker in FP1, likely more. Everyone was flying basically, Russell was 2.8s quicker than last year.

Also Ferrari ran higher PU mode last year, being considerably faster even with bigger wing on every straight. Judging by Marko's repeated comments, seems RB can't accept Ferrari finally catching up on low drag car design

It's looking good but we only had 1 run on soft tyres. We are still far from the real potential of these cars with track evolution, setup work, etc.

The improvement over the SF 23 is tremendous, as expected.

[CouncilorIrissa]

One of the few 100% valid laps from 2024 FP1 was Leclerc's lap on Softs. Unfortunately, we can't compare Sainz' 23 and 24 FP1 laps because of these telemetry issues, but both of them were flat 2s quicker than same time last year.

https://i.ibb.co/cFg6Wsf/jpn-lec-23-24.png

Massive time was gained in T2 (exit of Turn 1), Esses and Dunlop curve with the speed carried over, T14 (Spoon exit) and Casio chicane. T2, Dunlop and T14 is where Ferrari gained more than RB did from last year, since RB was 1.6s quicker than last year FP1. Overall, seems like the track was at least 1s quicker in FP1, likely more. Everyone was flying basically, Russell was 2.8s quicker than last year.

Also Ferrari ran higher PU mode last year, being considerably faster even with bigger wing on every straight. Judging by Marko's repeated comments, seems RB can't accept Ferrari finally catching up on low drag car design

Obscene performance difference in the spoon.

[LetHimTrough]

One of the few 100% valid laps from 2024 FP1 was Leclerc's lap on Softs. Unfortunately, we can't compare Sainz' 23 and 24 FP1 laps because of these telemetry issues, but both of them were flat 2s quicker than same time last year.

https://i.ibb.co/cFg6Wsf/jpn-lec-23-24.png

Massive time was gained in T2 (exit of Turn 1), Esses and Dunlop curve with the speed carried over, T14 (Spoon exit) and Casio chicane. T2, Dunlop and T14 is where Ferrari gained more than RB did from last year, since RB was 1.6s quicker than last year FP1. Overall, seems like the track was at least 1s quicker in FP1, likely more. Everyone was flying basically, Russell was 2.8s quicker than last year.

Also Ferrari ran higher PU mode last year, being considerably faster even with bigger wing on every straight. Judging by Marko's repeated comments, seems RB can't accept Ferrari finally catching up on low drag car design

Obscene performance difference in the spoon.

And also not losing any speed in the slow corners, which was one of the strengths of last year's car.

This really feels a different Scuderia to the one in recent memory.

[MTL79]

At this point the better comparison would be to the F1-75 given that Ferrari really messed up the SF-23 so badly lol...

[Vinlarr89]

Looking at the very small long run sim done by leclerc and comparing to 2023 race, is it not 1s better off than the best lap of the entire race?! Obviously we don’t know how long that performance could have been sustained with the tyre deg etc, but it’s promising as!

[SoulPancake13]

Looking at the very small long run sim done by leclerc and comparing to 2023 race, is it not 1s better off than the best lap of the entire race?! Obviously we don’t know how long that performance could have been sustained with the tyre deg etc, but it’s promising as!

Generally speaking, whenever Marko is worried about Ferrari's pace, he means it. Mini race sim looks very strong. Of course who knows the fuel loads, but very promising indeed.

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Looking at the very small long run sim done by leclerc and comparing to 2023 race, is it not 1s better off than the best lap of the entire race?! Obviously we don’t know how long that performance could have been sustained with the tyre deg etc, but it’s promising as!

Generally speaking, whenever Marko is worried about Ferrari's pace, he means it. Mini race sim looks very strong. Of course who knows the fuel loads, but very promising indeed.

Sainz pitted for 2:30 only after his short run, Leclerc for 3:20. Usually the pit stop time in practice to fully fuel the car is close to 5 minutes

[AR3-GP]

Looking at the very small long run sim done by leclerc and comparing to 2023 race, is it not 1s better off than the best lap of the entire race?! Obviously we don’t know how long that performance could have been sustained with the tyre deg etc, but it’s promising as!

Generally speaking, whenever Marko is worried about Ferrari's pace, he means it. Mini race sim looks very strong. Of course who knows the fuel loads, but very promising indeed.

Sainz pitted for 2:30 only after his short run, Leclerc for 3:20. Usually the pit stop time in practice to fully fuel the car is close to 5 minutes

That would assume that the cars were "empty" when they were sent for the short runs, which is unlikely. So it sounds like they had quite a bit of fuel on board, probably more than others for short runs in that case, which could mean that they didn't need to spend as much time fueling for the long runs. Marko said Ferrari was a second a lap faster on the long runs so RB have some catching up to do but I doubt they will bridge a 1 second margin. Perhaps only rain would thwart Ferrari this weekend.

[jambuka]

LEC needs to regain his qualifying prowess back asap. People are going to start raising eye brown if sainz on his way out keeps beating him.

[AR3-GP]

LEC needs to regain his qualifying prowess back asap. People are going to start raising eye brown if sainz on his way out keeps beating him.

It's currently 1-1 in qualifying. This is statistically insignificant.

[CouncilorIrissa]

LEC needs to regain his qualifying prowess back asap. People are going to start raising eye brown if sainz on his way out keeps beating him.

Jesus christ.
He outqualified him once in the last 9 races.

[Xyz22]

LEC needs to regain his qualifying prowess back asap. People are going to start raising eye brown if sainz on his way out keeps beating him.

It's currently 1-1 in qualifying. This is statistically insignificant.

I don't understand this current massive overreaction.
People now even micro analysing FP1 runs.

[CouncilorIrissa]

LEC needs to regain his qualifying prowess back asap. People are going to start raising eye brown if sainz on his way out keeps beating him.

It's currently 1-1 in qualifying. This is statistically insignificant.

I don't understand this current massive overreaction.
People now even micro analysing FP1 runs.

Any driver who's number 1 at Ferrari has a massive target on his back.
Happened to Vettel. Happened to Alonso.