More than two months to go before lights out at the Bahrain International circuit, but the interest in the new single-seaters is already high, especially for Scuderia Ferrari. In a recent article for Racingnews365, Paolo Filisetti provided some details about how the changes that the Maranello team will make for its 2023 Formula 1 car.
Before leaving the Italian side, Mattia Binotto had repeatedly stressed that the Italian single-seater for next season would be an evolution rather than a revolution of the F1-75, especially regarding the basic concept, understood as the structure of the floor and ride heights. However, the fact remains that the new Ferrari will present some innovations, trying to replicate and improve some of Red Bull’s strengths, incorporating them and reinterpreting them according to its own philosophy.
As reported by Paolo Filisetti, the second red ground effect car will be distinguished from its predecessor. However, “the shape of the sidepods will maintain the same ‘carved’ profile on the upper part, with large grilles for heat dissipation, and it will see a profound narrowing towards the rear. In fact, the area commonly described as the ‘coke bottle’ in front of the rear wheels will be slightly further forward, compared to the F1-75, in favour of a less complex air flow management directed towards the rear.”
The 2023 Ferrari Formula 1 car will also have the difficult task of remedying one of the main weaknesses of the F1-75, namely straight-line speed. About 30 extra horsepower from the power unit are rumored to have been unlocked with the reliability updates, but an important contribution will also come from the work of reducing aerodynamic resistance, better known as drag:
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“In essence, the car body of the 675 (as per the internal design code), will be characterised by different volumes compared to the F1-75, in favour of a lower drag. One change, which according to our information should further characterise the new single-seater, concerns the lower profile of the sides. The step between their vertical section and the floor side should appear much more marked. Basically, a sort of channel would be created, which follows the “double floor” principle, masterfully interpreted on the World Champion RB18. In a certain sense, it would be a natural evolution of the previous project, which would not completely disrupt the internal packaging of the cooling system, but would coincide with a different placement of the deformable structures on the sides of the cockpit (anti-intrusion cones). The chassis, in fact, in its lower section on the sides of the cockpit, and in the fuel tank area, will be profoundly different from its predecessor, maintaining, according to rumours, a precise correspondence only in the pick up points of the engine. The work in evolving the location of internal mechanics then involved the total makeover of the gearbox, to allow the adoption of the diffuser characterised by a 10mm elevation of its junction with respect to the Venturi channels.”
However, the most impactful changes in terms of performance will concern the floor and mechanics of the suspension, for which no information has been leaked at the moment.
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