Comparing the Ferrari F1-75 front and rear wings in Miami

Formula 1 has yet to hit the track in the highly anticipated Miami Grand Prix, but the circuit facilities are already abundantly animated by the experts. During Thursday, the first images from the pit lane began to arrive, providing a glimpse of the aerodynamic configurations brought by the teams at the Miami International Autodrome and any updates. In this regard, ahead of the Miami weekend, there was great anticipation around the Maranello team, which is currently leading both world championships: in the debriefing following the Imola race, Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto had in fact confirmed some aerodynamic innovations on F1- 75, embodied in particular by a new rear wing.

The goal is to adapt the car as best as possible on a track with three long straights such as the one in Miami. The top speed in fact emerged as one of Ferrari’s critical points in the comparison with Red Bull, although a different strategy of using the Maranello power unit also contributes to a similar gap, which makes extensive use of clipping, cutting the electric power in the final part of the straight to preserve it for the traction phases. In spite of the numerous straights, the average speed in Florida is however relatively low, around 220 km / h, the second lowest value among the tracks visited so far. The straights are in fact interspersed with high-mileage corners, in particular in the first sector, and a tight sequence of low-speed changes of direction in the central part of the circuit, areas that both require high levels of downforce. The Florida racetrack thus becomes a medium-low load track without resulting in extreme solutions, which on the contrary could be replaced by compromise choices.

According to what leaked from the Scuderia’s pits and was reported by formulapassion.it, the two front wings that have always been available to the team up to now have been confirmed. The more loaded version is accompanied by the lighter specification, with the differences concentrated in the dimensions of the last upper profile, characterized by a different string pattern. As seen on previous occasions, the double wing allows greater freedom of intervention on the car’s aerodynamic balance, also in reaction to any rear wing changes.

At the rear, on the other hand, in Miami so far only the rear wing has been seen in its old configuration, characterized by an accentuated downward spoon shape of the main profile. This is a derivative setting in two specifications with different downforce levels, alternated so far by the Scuderia in the first four races of the 2022 Formula 1 season. Still no trace therefore of the new rear wing, which could be unveiled directly in the testing sessions or could be introduced in Barcelona together with the main package of updates being developed in Maranello.