Scuderia Ferrari initially intended to bring the first updates for the SF1000 car at the Hungaroring circuit, but in the Racing Department they are currenty working to try to anticipate the debut of some parts already next week. Will we see new wings and a different floor?
It is a race against time. But it will also mean something of #essereFerrari. The intention is to anticipate the developments of the SF1000. The racing department of Ferrari is under pressure because there is a desire to anticipate some changes planned in the Hungaroring package in order to bring them next week for the second Austrian race, as reported today by Motorsport Italy.
In Maranello, therefore, they will try to react after the disappointing outcomet in qualifying with Charles Leclerc seventh and Sebastian Vettel eleventh. The first concrete answers should therefore arrive and solve some of the problems that had emerged in the Barcelona winter tests, as the Italian side is aware of a calendar that could be shorter than expected.
And sending some parts to Spielberg’s second appointment could be useful to evaluate the difference in performance compared to what is being achieved in this opening weekend of the world championship with the SF1000 which has worsened by nine tenths compared to the SF90.
There would be no need to add other words, but Spielberg’s Ferrari is too bad to be true, however “wrong” it is in some parts of the project. Mattia Binotto said that five weeks of work after the lockdown were not enough to “remake” the car, but, according to the rumors that have been collected by Motorsport Italy, a part of the work of Simone Resta, the technician in charge of correcting the errors of the SF1000, it could be one week earlier.
Due to the effects of COVID-19, the Maranello factory respects safety protocols that prevent working at 100% of the potential (many technicians and not only still operate in smart working) yet there is the hope of completing the new wings (front and rear) and a floor of different conception.
They are carbon pieces that have a defined production schedule, but by forcing some processes you can gain those few hours that can make them available to a GP instead of the next one. It would be a half miracle, but in the Racing Department the team is trying everything. The updates for the gearbox will most likely not arrive: obviously the changes to avoid the annoying twists of the rear axle (Vettel complained of the sudden oversteer) for which Ferrari will have to spend the first of the two development tokens granted by the FIA, because the transmission is one of the frozen parts together with the chassis and engine starting from this GP.
The regulatory straps are another aspect that will slow down the possible updates: the Cavallino team has undergone all the development constraints that the FIA has introduced with a Ferrari too supine to the unconditional cost cut. Camilleri and Binotto had won the financial battle for the renewal of the Concordia Pact (which has not yet been signed), but they lost the technical one. There are those who in Sports Management look to 2022 when the new regulation will start. But can Ferrari afford two secondary championships without complete management changes?
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