The new Ferrari is still to be fully discovered: the package of updates introduced on the SF-23 deserves to be analyzed in detail as they are captured by the keen eye of Motorsport F1 journalist Giorgio Piola. We talked yesterday about the new side pods that no longer have the traditional upper bathtub design and feature a trailing edge instead, right after the mechanics assembled Carlos Sainz’s red car.
Now after the first free practice session for the Spanish Grand Prix we are able to analyze a few more details that reveal a careful study of micro-aerodynamics by Diego Tondi’s team: the SF-23 has not given up on the S-duct. On the sides of the cockpit, we can observe a small flap slightly arched upward that channels the flow exiting the periscope and directs it towards the vertical gills from which the hot air from the radiators is extracted.
The aim is to achieve the upwash effect to move the “leaks” to the highest part of the engine cover. In Barcelona, Carlos Sainz’s red car ran with asymmetric vents: three on the right and even seven on the left.
We have already mentioned the less streamlined rearview mirror with a C-shaped support structure, while the appearance of a new sinuous element is striking. It emerges on the sides of the airbox, below the “horns,” and with a sinuous shape, it attaches to the edge of the engine cover at its widest point. It is a flow conditioner.
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