26 points and fourth place in the constructors’ championship. This is the overall result from the first three races of the 2023 Formula 1 season for Scuderia Ferrari.
We are certainly talking about a very poor start to the championship, well below what we saw one year ago, when the Maranello team secured two race wins out of the first three races and the leading role in the constructors’ standings at that stage of the F1 campaign.
Without a shadow of a doubt, the misfortunes of the Australian Grand Prix have a heavy impact on this balance, but even net of these recent events, it seems clear that something went wrong in Maranello during the winter.
In fact, the SF-23 was expected to challenge Red Bull for the 2023 F1 titles as Ferrari had focused a lot on fixing the power unit reliability issues that had limited the potential of the F1-75 last season. However, it seems that the 2023 Ferrari F1 single-seater has fallen back in terms of performance. It is therefore natural to start wondering about the technical issues that have affected the SF-23 car. With this in mind, engineer Gabriele Tredozi, who was active in Formula 1 first with Minardi and then with the HRT Team, shared his thoughts on the Maranello team’s difficult moment in a discussion for the Pit Talk podcast.
In the experience of the engineer, focusing on a particular performance aspect of the car turns out to be an obsolete approach that is ill-suited to the complexity reached by current Formula 1 cars. In other words, there is no single area of intervention that needs to be improved.
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The search for performance is, on the other hand, the result of a mix of small details and improvements that only together can increase the overall pace and performance of the car. According to engineer Gabriele Tredozi, the research for performance passes from weight reduction to be able to manage the balance, to the search for more rigidity, passing through the management of the suspensions and so on.
There is therefore no “one component that overturns the car”, since for a real upheaval it would be necessary to completely redesign the car.
Gabriele Tredozi suggests that, therefore, Scuderia Ferrari should more simply embark on a process of constant development of its SF-23 single-seater that is not made up of revolutions but of evolutions, in the hope of being able to extract a greater performance than that expressed on the track so far.
The engineer concludes by referring to the much-discussed lack of correlation between the encouraging simulation data from the Scuderia and the actual performance. According to Gabriele Tredozi this should be the main goal that the Maranello team must set itself in closing the gap to Red Bull.
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