Ferrari puts its evolution on track for Imola

Ferrari wants to keep pushing and get closer to Red Bull this season. To this end, the Italian team will present its first major and important package of improvements next Emilia-Romagna Grand Prixin Imolaa few kilometers from its headquarters in Maranello. The red team started the year better than last year, with a car that finally put an end to its main weakness of the last years: wear and tear. He SF24 It’s a better foundation from which to continue developing, and that’s what you want to do Enrico Cardile, head of the chassis departmentwith SF24 no longer dipping on Sundays and expected to take another important step forward Imola. Good news for Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc.

Today, these improvements on which Ferrari has placed so much hope have been tested for the first time on its track. Maranelloin the circuit of Fioranotaking advantage of a ‘filming day’ that the ‘Scuderia del Cavallino Rampante’ is available. All with the aim of checking that there are no assembly errors and understanding the first correlation data between the track and the simulations.

In these Ferrari evolutions, obtained by the specialized Italian portal ‘Formu1a.uno’, the lateral cooling inlet of the sidepods stands out. Ferrari started the year with a spoon-shaped entrance, with a more elongated base at the bottom. Now, that concept has been completely turned on its head. The spoon becomes upside down, with an extended upper lip, in the purest Red Bull style, thus applying the dominant car concept it created and implemented. Adrian Newey within RB20 of this year.

The previous pontoon:

The new pontoon

In addition, there is a rearrangement of the sidepods with narrower radiator holes. In addition, the car must also have a new bottom, the element that gives the greatest aerodynamic load to the whole car, but is not visible because it is attached to the asphalt. With this new background, the Italian team is looking for better performance and better balance from a car that has already competed on several tracks at the beginning of the season. Ferrari wanted to respond to the great package of improvements it presented McLaren in Miami and he in turn approached a red bull that in the American track it is diluted but that in Imola It is expected to return to the maximum.

In addition, Ferrari will bring minor changes to the front and rear spoilers. Also in the small aerodynamic details located next to the pilot’s head, near the cockpit.

Apparently, according to the aforementioned portal, Ferrari was planning to introduce pontoons with more than just style red bull from late last year or in style Aston Martinbut the red team could have found another direction, avoiding that intermediate step, thus saving a large amount of money thinking about the budget limit, which could have gone directly to these new pontoons that put in Imolain the seventh race of the year.