Along with the innovation of red bull on his floor, and the first fear of Aston Martinthe most commented photo of the first morning’s Formula 1 pre-season test session was the one that starred the Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari SF23.
Users of social networks, always taking out their magnifying glass before any detail, realized that the nose of Ferrari it suffered an internal deformation in the middle of the straight line, under acceleration, and later, when the curve came, it returned to its natural position.
Many wondered if this was an effect sought after in the new car, but it was not. Simply, it should be related to how far all the teams have all their pieces to lighten them as much as possible and reduce their weight, something that can be seen, for example, in the reduction of paint in all cars, with Mercedes as the highest exponent of this stream. Every gram counts, and at Ferrari it became clear that they needed to add some material in that area to not suffer any nose problems.
The tests are for these things, to detect issues that are not visible in the simulator and in the wind tunnel. And it seems it didn’t take long for the Italians to fix that mistake, as the nose was eventually not seen to deform for the rest of the morning session.
Source: La Verdad
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