Ferrari will face the problem of the SF-24 in the upcoming Hungarian Formula 1 Grand Prix, but boss Frederic Vasseur has allayed concerns surrounding the car’s upgrade. A package of solutions introduced by Scuderia in Spain did not have the desired effect when the team had a poor performance in the last four races, including a double DNF in Canada and two no points. by Charles Leclerc in Austria and England.

The car’s problem lies in aerodynamics, as the wobble phenomenon reappears in racing teams, especially in Spain, where it affects Leclerc and Carlos Sainz. For British Formula 1, Ferrari scaled back the upgrades and spent a week testing successive packages to find a solution, which Leclerc felt was effective. When asked about the car’s performance, team director Vasseur praised the pace of Ferrari’s upgrades during his tenure and added that he felt the team was on the brink of a breakthrough in terms of understanding. “It is true that it is an aerodynamic problem, because we changed the aerodynamic parts and the bouncing phenomenon appeared in Spain,” Vasseur responded to the media, including RacingNews365.

“To fix it, you have a lot of solutions, solutions that may or may not affect performance, or develop a package and I think we have the solution already. “We will have to solve this problem at the next race with the current car and we will release an upgrade with less bounce as soon as possible. “Honestly, I can’t talk about 2020, 2021 or 1994, but over the last 16 months, all of the upgrades that we brought in correlated very, very well with what we did in the wind tunnel. “One of the team’s strengths last year was delivering smaller upgrades and delivering efficiency each time, but this time, we ran into problems.”

Ferrari’s tough call was ‘right’
Ferrari’s hopes of back-to-back testing at Silverstone have been slightly affected by the weather, with cold and wet conditions throughout the week, and Vasseur called the decision to “sacrifice” Friday practice “difficult.” towel”. However, he felt that the call to focus not on normal performance but on understanding the SF-24’s problems was the right decision. “Compromising or sacrificing Friday study sessions when you know you’ll lose time over the weekend, that it’s okay to forget FP1, FP2 to focus on midterms, this is a decision.” The decision was very difficult for the whole group,” he said.

“You start the weekend, and things are even worse at Silverstone because of the weather, and we’ve put ourselves in a difficult situation, but at least we knew in advance. We made the decision decided before the weekend and I think it was the right decision. “Correlation is fine, downforce and correlation are fine. I think it’s still a question for people that sometimes bounce occurs, and it’s quite difficult to correlate because you don’t have bounce in wind tunnel. “I don’t want to get into the details, but we all have the numbers and you can’t predict that you’ll have more changes with one upgrade path than another, but knowing if it will Whether it negatively impacts performance or not is another story.”