2026 Scuderia Ferrari HP F1 Team

[Venturiation]

D'Ambrosio confirms Hamilton's suspicions: the Ferrari simulator doesn't read reality as it should. The inaccuracies in the mathematical models betray the SF-26, sending it outside its operational window.

[rifrafs2kees]

Don't know the full truth but that it took Hamilton's initiative to move the needle on this issue is damning if true. How long have they known about this is issue, and isn't the solution a low hanging fruit as far as f1 tech goes?

Ferrari's failure at achieving WDC/constructor's has poor team culture as one of the key contributors.

[Luscion]

from Autoracer's livestream

The team have already identified the problem that occurred on Charles Leclerc's car during the Monaco Grand Prix. But it's unlikely that it will be made public. Starting from Barcelona, Leclerc will go in Lewis's direction by also using Carbon Industries discs. We hope this will help him, but it's not guaranteed. Another piece of information, no update was made in Canada on the brakes, so nothing has changed on that part of the SF-26.

It seems that Loïc Serra (technical director) has also been requesting the brake disc change for a long time. Coming from Mercedes, he is very familiar with Carbone Industrie's brakes discs, and the fact that this request from Loïc, combined with Lewis’ pushed Fred to agree to it.

Charles is fed up with Brembo and it seems he will no longer use Brembo discs; he wants to try these new CI brakes discs in Barcelona.

[ginobeppe]

from autoracer live: Ferrari should be in the 6-8% category and the offical results are being held because RBPT is not happy with the results

[Luscion]

from autoracer live: Ferrari should be in the 6-8% category and the offical results are being held because RBPT is not happy with the results

To add to that, regarding when they introduce the engine upgrades, the circuits of Austria, Spa, Monza, and Zandvoort are mentioned.

[PlatinumZealot]

ok you just said a whole bunch of nothing. That doesn't tell anyone how they are determining who is first second 3rd

In other words they measure the brake horsepower and an estimate of the indicated horsepower (ie before losses). That's all you can do with the ICE.

so you think they just look at the max power output?

No. Why would someone chose one peak number?

They could do something like measure the power over time as the cars exit through corners and other things. At the end of the day they will define what engine performance metrics tied to laptime and measure and compare those.

[gearboxtrouble]

from autoracer live: Ferrari should be in the 6-8% category and the offical results are being held because RBPT is not happy with the results

That just not possible. We're talking ~50hp assuming 575-600 for the RBPT. I don't think it is realistic that Ferrari would be that far behind. Based on the (limited) wheel to wheel action we've seen between a RBPT engined car and a Ferrari engined car the RBPT car does seem faster down the straights but its not that level of gap. Either the FIA has messed up the test in a way thats overrating the RBPT engine or RBPT are running it below its potential for reliability reasons.