The recent statements made by Scuderia Ferrari Team Principal Mattia Binotto before the summer break have created a certain positive sensation among the fans and media: the Italian side’s boss spoke in no uncertain terms about the 065/6 engine that was developed by the engineers directed by Enrico Gualtieri and which will arrive on track after Monza.
“From now to the end of the season – said Mattia Binotto – we will bring an evolution of the engine, this year’s regulation allows us to bring a completely new power unit in all its elements. At the beginning of the season we brought some elements, but not the entire power unit. So there will be some new elements, developed in the second half of the season, which we believe can give us a small contribution on the performance front, indeed, not too small, it will be significant”.
According to rumors, there is talk of maybe a dozen more horsepower as a result of detailed work on fuel, lubricant, combustion chamber and some hybrid details.
An evolution that focuses on two very important factors: reducing consumption and increasing power with greater pressure in the combustion chamber. Shell, the Scuderia’s “innovation partner” contributes significantly to this step, which is not only a supplier but also works alongside the Maranello team in research work.
There will also be an update in the hybrid part to improve the management of electric power over the lap.
Tests that will also be very useful for the development of the power unit 2022 which will have to be approved in December for a period of three years and which will be known as “Superfast”.
The 2021 technical regulation of Formula 1 in the notes of Appendix 2 reads:
“In 2020 the specifications of the first race had to be maintained throughout the season, while from 2021 it is possible to update the specifications between the end of the previous season and the end of the current season”.
The specifications that could be updated this year are: combustion engine, turbo, MGU-H, exhausts, fuel and oil, while the MGU-K, battery and control unit were able to take advantage of only one evolution in the two-year period 2020-2021.
Ferrari therefore plans to reduce the performance gap as compared to the power units of Mercedes and Red Bull, given that in Mattia Binotto’s opinion 60 percent of the SF21’s seven tenths deficit in the Hungarian Grand Prix is still cause by the engine.
