Ferrari and Alpine, evolutions in Barcelona

Barcelona It is, according to tradition, one of the favorite circuits for all teams to bring new parts to the track. This is for many reasons, such as proximity to factories and because it was formerly the first European race (this year the first was Imola). But more importantly, it is due to how representative the track is to draw conclusions due to the great diversity of curves and the great difference between its sectors. For example, if you want to improve the car in slow corners, you can focus on working on a car configuration designed to analyze its performance in the final, twisty and technical sectors. But there’s more: there are straights and curves of all kinds. For this reason, in the year in which the largest regulatory change was implemented in the past 40 years, many teams marked this weekend’s Grand Prix on the calendar, the Spanish F1 GP to be played on Barcelona-Catalunya Circuit. These include, Ferrari and Alpine.

Ferrari used the first 5 races to evaluate their F1-75, understand its performance, understand how to get the most out of it and see how set-up changes affected it. They also focus on minimizing the bounce in the straight. They have the best starting vehicle and their plan is to fully understand this before introducing a major upgrade, coming this weekend in Barcelona in the form of the first evolution package. At this time, red bull opted for a different approach, the introduction of new things to almost everyone Big prize, drops. Thus, he succeeded from suffering a major devastation in Australia, towards dominance ferrari sa Imola Y Miami. Binotto He said that for this reason Red Bull now has a car that is approximately “two tenths” per lap better, a gap he hopes Barcelona will close in on these evolutions.

“If we look at the last two races, maybe (at Red Bull) they’ve been able to be two tenths in a lap faster than us. We’re afraid a new package for Barcelona will be important for us, as always, and hopefully the package we introduced works as And if that’s the case, it’s a good help to try to catch the current speed of Red Bull ”, said the Ferrari boss in Miami about a car he was looking forward to. Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc fight for victory against Verstappen Y Perez this Saturday or Sunday.

Alonso, new rear wing

Another team that should release improvements is Alpinealthough it is not known if it was in just one of their cars, or for both drivers, Fernando Alonso Y Stephen Ocon. This was confirmed by the Principal Team of Alpine, Otmar Szafnauer, in statements on the Motorsport-Total portal. In the case of being just for one driver, with the Grand Prix it’s time to make a new improvement on Or includedafter Alonso oversaw the debut of his latest floor specification on Imola.

“We’re going to introduce a new rear wing in Spain. It should be better than the last one we used here in February, so it should also give us more performance,” he said, still stressing the need for Alpine to continue its particular ‘bikini operation’, to reduce the weight of an Alpine that started something ‘chubby’ in its vehicle with this change of regulations.

“We’ve made a little bit of progress, but there’s still a lot to do. In terms of weight, we’re a bit taller. I don’t think it’s as bad as for some, but it’s not as good as for others as well. We’re a bit higher, but we’ve improved since Bahrain and we’re getting better and better, ”Otmar said. Alpine recently debuted a new, lighter floor and should now continue to do so as part of its ongoing program of improvements, which should continue in Baku and in July at Silverstone.