TOhour It’s Ferrari’s turn to hit back. After the evolution of Red Bull in China and McLaren in Miamithe Scudería receives its first big package of parts so far in 2024. It will be in Imola the following weekend (May 17-19) when SF-24 catches up with a redesign of the car that can allow it to start fighting with Red Bull and once again surpass McLaren as the second team on the grid in a consolidated way
The circuit of Fionano It is reserved for this Thursday and Friday. Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc will complete the second of the Fiming Days of this year, of 200 km (it was expanded by the FIA), where in addition to recording the promotional spots from the new main sponsor, HP, They will have a really important added job.
The team led by Fred Vasseur aims to evaluate the correlation of the ‘new’ SF-24 between the data coming out of the wind tunnel and the runway. Information is sought, as detailed as possible on the real potential of the first of the three update packages planned for this season and which will change the appearance of the ‘rosso’ car in a very obvious way, as reported by ‘Motorsport.it’. ‘
It will also be given to the young man Oliver Bearmanauthor of his first points in F1 in Arabia, when he replaced Carlos Sainz due to his appendicitis in Jeddah, the opportunity to train for his first test with the Haas VF-24, which will take place in Free Practice 1 of the Emilia Romagna GP .
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The team will introduce several new features, so it will not be easy to understand what works best and the opportunity to race in Fiorano helps them to realize an important preliminary work that could be essential to define the final configuration. The FIA allows this type of testing with new parts on Filming Days, which are however carried out with a few tires from Pirelli that They are not the ones usually used in grand prix of 2024, so that the equivalence is not complete.
The new parts
As published, Sainz and Leclerc’s car It will have new inverted radiator inlets, very similar to those of the Red Bull RB20, something that will significantly change the appearance of the pontoons, with an upper wing to channel the air flow, instead of underneath, as until now.
Additionally, it seems that a small improvement will be made to the front wing and the deflectors will be modified (those in the image above) that are on the sides of the cabin, with which the season began… But it seems that there will be some more pieces that have not yet been revealed.
