Ferrari’s SF90 hampered by issues replicating windtunnel performance on track. The Maranello team had to re-evaluate their development strategy.

Scuderia Ferrari’s SF90 car has been hampered by issues replicating windtunnel performance on track, the Italian side’s Team Principal Mattia Binotto has admitted.

The Maranello team had to re-evaluate their development strategy for the SF90 at the post-Spanish GP test, as a lack of downforce left them trailing Mercedes with Red Bull also now threatening to overtake. However, while some improvement has been made, it hasn’t been a smooth process with new parts also failing to deliver the anticipated results.

“What we can tell you is that, in specific conditions, there only have been, it’s wrong to say miscorrelations but let me say we didn’t have at the track what we were expecting from the wind tunnel,” Scuderia Ferrari boss Binotto explained at Silverstone last week – “In Paul Ricard, we had a new floor that didn’t work but other components that were left on the car were positive. In Austria, we did some measurements, tried to understand the issue and understand what went wrong with the floor. We are introducing important and significant items from the test itself and now at least we understood why it didn’t work and from now on we obviously need to progress and improve.” – Scuderia Ferrari Team Principal Mattia Binotto concluded last week.