The inside story of the epic Alesi Ferrari F1 Monaco video.McLaren currently sits seven points clear of Ferrari in the teams’ standings thanks to Lando Norris’s podium finish at Imola, clinched after passing Leclerc on the restart after the red flag. Photo by: Mark Sutton / Motorsport Images “So again, I think the performance is certainly a relief.”Ĭarlos Sainz Jr., Ferrari SF21, Daniel Ricciardo, McLaren MC元5M “We often said that our performance of last year was not acceptable for a Ferrari brand, so we knew that these areas were important for us, showing developments in all the areas. “Certainly, the fact that the car is performing better, so that we can have a better result at the end of the race weekend, is important. That, I think, was the most important and I think in that respect, it is a relief. It may have been his most efficient lap of the weekend.“That gives confidence in the tools, and our design capacity for the future. Leclerc biked round circuit on Thursday with his engineers. Now, they have a high-drag car with what Fernando Alonso might call a GP2 engine. So Ferrari have designed a car to be fast through the corners, on the assumption that the power unit will take car of the straights. Speed in F1 is rarely down to just one element and the aerodynamic concept of a car is always going to be based around how fast it is going thanks to the engine, among other things. They are on track for their worst Constructors’ Championship finish since 1981. One alternative to Ferrari’s speed problems? (Photo: AP)Įven if Ferrari are innocent and the smoke and mirrors around that mystery settlement are hiding nothing as sinister as a rule-break, they cannot deny that they are catastrophically slow in 2020. Even now, the team are still blocking the release of details on intellectual property grounds and the paddock are still campaigning for openness on the grounds of sporting integrity. Teams remained infuriated that Ferrari could potentially have broken the rules and had it quite openly covered up. Essentially, a community service sentence. Amazingly, they said they would be keeping the results of it secret and released a vague statement about Ferrari agreeing “to a number of technical commitments that will improve the monitoring of all Formula 1 power units”.
The FIA did eventually admit to concluding an analysis of the engine and “reached a settlement” with Ferrari. However, the rest of the season saw Ferrari continue to “experiment” on set-up, reaffirming those suspicions. The team adamantly denied that this directive was the reason behind a sudden drop in straight-line speed but team boss Mattia Binotto insisted it was down to some experimental settings, “a trade-off between grip limit and power limit has been moved this weekend, as a test on our side, to try to match cornering”. Ferrari’s rivals maintained that the team had designed a system to hold the fuel in the car in a different way, thus hoodwinking the sensor into registering the correct numbers. A technical directive was issued by the FIA outlawing certain settings related to fuel flow, which is strictly regulated. The key moment had come at the US Grand Prix last year. They had gone from a ding-dong battle to a walkover. In 2020, Ferrari found they were outstripped in aerodynamics and engine power.
In 2019, their engine dominance continued although Mercedes found gains in other areas such as aerodynamics and were able to extend their run of Constructors’ Championships.
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F1 Today: Ferrari will be glad to return to Monza in front of empty stands with no one to witness their embarrassment Pre-race is about the closest either Ferrari driver has been able to get to Lewis Hamilton (Photo: Getty)
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