2026 Scuderia Ferrari HP F1 Team

[mzso]

Single point of failure system - if the steering system leaks then the hydraulic system leaks. It's one system for steering, gears, etc., and the rear portion of the braking system controlled by the car (hydraulically).

Even if that is the case. It's the team's responsibility to give a driver a functioning car. Not that I see how breaking the front wing would cause a failure like this. We must have seen a hundred crashes that are like this or worse in a year, without anyone having a hydraulics failure.

So the team are deliberately breaking Charles's car are they? Because that's the alternative.

There are countless alternatives. But it's more likely they're incompetent. Either didn't fix something, or was flawed to begin with.
Not that I didn't suspect internal sabotage at Ferrari during the years. Particularly when the favorite at the time had no technical issues for many months, while the other driver suffered a technical DNF every few events. I don't think at this stage they can afford such things.

I was under the impression that once your fuel was homologated that was it for the season.

Fuel can be updated with ADUO

ADUO is irrelevant. They can update it freely. It requires that lengthy homologation process though.

[karana]

I was under the impression that once your fuel was homologated that was it for the season.

Fuel can be updated with ADUO

ADUO is irrelevant. They can update it freely. It requires that lengthy homologation process though.

I'd say Appendix C5 and Appendix C4 make it very clear that that's not true. According to the table in Appendix C4 fuel can only be upgraded for the 2027 and 2029 seasons and additionaly with ADUO .

[dans79]

There are countless alternatives. But it's more likely they're incompetent. Either didn't fix something, or was flawed to begin with.

Since we don't know what specifically failed, it could be something as simple as the crash on Saturday caused an internal crack in a rigid hydraulic line.

The line might have looked fine, but if they had run a ultrasonic test (not common at all) on it they would have seen that it has an internal fracture of some kind.

During the race the part would fatigue at an increased rate until ultimately it failed.

[dans79]

I'd say Appendix C5 and Appendix C4 make it very clear that that's not true. According to the table in Appendix C4 fuel can only be upgraded for the 2027 and 2029 seasons and additionaly with ADUO .

Since you are so sure, please cite the specific regulations.

[karana]

I'd say Appendix C5 and Appendix C4 make it very clear that that's not true. According to the table in Appendix C4 fuel can only be upgraded for the 2027 and 2029 seasons and additionaly with ADUO .

Since you are so sure, please cite the specific regulations.

It's row 79 of the table on page 234 in Appendix C4 of the technical regulations.

Article 3.3 of Appendix C5:

For the years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030, upgrades to the components marked with a “check” in the
table of Appendix C4, in the relevant column for each year, may be carried out. Irrespective of
changes permitted under ADUO according to Article 3.3 of this Appendix, such upgrades must be
introduced for the first Competition of the year when they are allowed and used for the whole
Championship season.

https://www.fia.com/system/files/docume ... -05-07.pdf

[sucof]

Highly interesting sentence in Autosport article:
"Ferrari's engineers are trying to identify the cause of the issue, with it suggested that Leclerc's incident at Antony Noghes in Monaco may have had similarities to the failure experienced in Spain."

Suggesting, the same electronical failure happened in Monaco and Spain during both of Leclerc's DNF's.