Ferrari: Charles Leclerc tested new floor for Silverstone

Ferrari: Charles Leclerc tested new floor for Silverstone. Charles tested new floor for Silverstone.

Ferrari: provato da Leclerc il nuovo fondo per Silverstone

Scuderia Ferrari Team Principal Mattia Binotto had admitted after the French GP that Ferrari is all concentrated on the 2022 single-seater, but this does not mean that in the next Grand Prix we will see some small innovations, the result of a development that had been thought of before the staff directed by Enrico Cardile focused exclusively on next year’s car.

It should therefore come as no surprise that yesterday in the first free practice session of the Styrian GP the Scuderia introduced a modification to the floor on the SF21 driven by Charles Leclerc that was designed not for the Red Bull Ring, but for the British Grand Prix scheduled at Silverstone on the weekend of 18 July.

This is not a big change, given that in the L-cut sidewalk portion the Maranello team’s aerodynamics have introduced three flow deviators that have the task of directing the air towards the outside of the rear wheel, in order to make the floor more efficient.

The solution, available in a single piece for now, was entrusted to Charles Leclerc, while Carlos Sainz worked with the standard version that will be used during the Austrian weekend. The change, in fact, was an advance of the small package that we will see at Silverstone, where the latest innovations applied to the SF21 should appear.

Giorgio Piola’s image also shows us the instrumentation that was mounted on the floor where the Coca Cola area opens up: nine small Pitot tubes were placed in an important area to generate the diffuser load. On the occasion of the eighth round of the 2021 world championship, the usual rakes full of sensors disappeared, demonstrating that the experimental phase on this year’s single-seaters has practically come to an end.

Red Bull did not hesitate to carry out aerodynamic checks with the flo viz paint to compare the data of the diffuser equipped with the serrations on the Gurney flaps with the version that showed shark teeth only in the outermost part in the rear of the floor.