Ferrari pays for having developed car in wrong direction for two years – report. AMuS report.

The 2020 Belgian Grand Prix will be page in the history book which is rarely revisited by Ferrari. The Maranello team finished without points at Spa-Francorchamps and even had to tolerate Kimi Raikkonen in the Alfa Romeo. The situation is going from bad to worse for the team that managed to win convincingly here last year.

However, a scaled-back engine brings the Italian fans to tears and so it is a good thing for Ferrari that those fans cannot be on the track for a while. Yet according to German automobile magazine ‘Auto Motor und Sport’, it is possible that the aerodynamic configuration with minimal downforce which is need for the Monza Circuit next week will suit Scuderia Ferrari a bit more that at Spa. The SF1000 looks especially bad when aerodynamic efficiency is required, so basically when you still need to generate a lot of downforce with smaller rear wings.

As reported earlier today by ‘Auto Motor und Sport’, Scuderia Ferrari pays for having developed the car in the wrong direction for the last two years. Rival teams say: “If I have 60 to 70 hp more than others, I base my aerodynamic concept on that. Then I don’t mind inefficient downforce. And this is what happened at Ferrari. Now that Ferrari lack this performance cushion, they would have to swap over the other extreme. And that is not possible in such a short time…”