Ferrari must immediately look to the future after the two disappointing results in the Spanish Grand Prix and on the streets of Monte Carlo, which were certainly not the most technical tracks on the Formula 1 calendar. If in Spain and Monaco, Ferrari confirmed a certain supremacy over the RB18, the Azerbaijan and Canadian GPs will be important to provide indications regarding the on track hierarchy for the rest of the 2022 Formula 1 season. At the moment Ferrari’s F1-75 car, although it performed well in more or less all conditions, will have to face very different tracks compared to Monaco and Spain.
The Azerbaijan GP, the next round of the 2022 world championship, is a track that can be compared to Jeddah and Miami for the type of characteristics but also has many traction straights. Ferrari proved to certainly be strong in the slow sections where mechanical grip counts, as in all of Monaco, and in the slow sectors of Melbourne and Miami. The changes introduced in Spain have reduced the straight-line speed gap that Ferrari had as compared to Red Bull in terms of top speeds, although this gap has not been evaluated with a more low-load rear wing.
The spoon rear wing, which was seen on the Ferrari car in all the races before Barcelona, will return on the F1-75, albeit in a lower downforce specification. We will then have the opportunity to see the low-load wing brought to Miami – and never used at the American track after the Italian team gathered data related to the asphalt and decided to postpone introducing it.
Ferrari has always tended to use a setup based on more downforce than the solutions brought to the track by Red Bull on its RB18, which we have often seen as more neutral in incidence.
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Sure, the Baku track has more low-speed sections than the Canadian track, but at the same time the straights are much longer.
Historically, both of these races are marked by aerodynamic innovations that mostly concern adaptations to the type of circuit. A sidepods update, for example, will be seen in one of the next packages that will be introduced later in the season, most likely in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
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