2026 Scuderia Ferrari HP F1 Team

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Xyz22 wrote:
29 Jun 2026, 11:52
This is the first year in a long time that Ferrari has a driver problem. Leclerc is performing like Massa at the end of his career, absolutely awful. This makes Hamilton look decent but he is miles slower than Antonelli and Max.

Not looking good. This is going another very long and disappointing season.
LOL you need to calm down. He had like 4 bad results in a completely new formula, possibly driving with a new brake setup and just qualified P2 at the last GP.

Mercedes was always going to run away with it. The team is losing on politics, not due to the drivers IMO.

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This is another unnecessary complication that needs rethinking. The SM rear wing is slow to rotate so they can’t rely on the brake pedal to re-engage and have to do it early & manually; and with that comes the inevitable mistake. Good catch by HAM

Team ANTI-HYPE. Prove it, then I’ll anoint you.

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Ferrari bringing an updated macarena wing, low drag diffuser and revised ftm to Silverstone

https://autoracer.it/ferrari-spielberg- ... lori-aduo/

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aMessageToCharlie wrote:
29 Jun 2026, 12:27
Xyz22 wrote:
29 Jun 2026, 11:52
This is the first year in a long time that Ferrari has a driver problem. Leclerc is performing like Massa at the end of his career, absolutely awful. This makes Hamilton look decent but he is miles slower than Antonelli and Max.

Not looking good. This is going another very long and disappointing season.
LOL you need to calm down. He had like 4 bad results in a completely new formula, possibly driving with a new brake setup and just qualified P2 at the last GP.

Mercedes was always going to run away with it. The team is losing on politics, not due to the drivers IMO.
4 bad results is a colossal amount. Hamilton was only slightly better this weekend, which doesn’t really bode well at all considering Leclerc actual level.

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Xyz22 wrote:
29 Jun 2026, 12:47
aMessageToCharlie wrote:
29 Jun 2026, 12:27
Xyz22 wrote:
29 Jun 2026, 11:52
This is the first year in a long time that Ferrari has a driver problem. Leclerc is performing like Massa at the end of his career, absolutely awful. This makes Hamilton look decent but he is miles slower than Antonelli and Max.

Not looking good. This is going another very long and disappointing season.
LOL you need to calm down. He had like 4 bad results in a completely new formula, possibly driving with a new brake setup and just qualified P2 at the last GP.

Mercedes was always going to run away with it. The team is losing on politics, not due to the drivers IMO.
4 bad results is a colossal amount. Hamilton was only slightly better this weekend, which doesn’t really bode well at all considering Leclerc actual level.
I hope the modes scrub this trash off the site. Zero value add. This driver x vs y is getting tiring,

You could've searched the web for possible causes of their collapse. E.g. Lando thought Ferrari was pushing too hard in the corners to achieve lap time due to deployment handicap.

For you none of the millions of hours of technical homework matters, however. It's all down to terrible drivers because they must deliver stellar results regardless of conditions. Thanks Einstein.

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Luscion wrote:
29 Jun 2026, 12:35
Ferrari bringing an updated macarena wing, low drag diffuser and revised ftm to Silverstone

https://autoracer.it/ferrari-spielberg- ... lori-aduo/
Will deg in Silverstone be as bad as Spain?Ferrari can make a 3 stop work in Silverstone no?

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Jdn1327 wrote:
29 Jun 2026, 15:23

Will deg in Silverstone be as bad as Spain?Ferrari can make a 3 stop work in Silverstone no?
Temperatures likely to be 26-28deg C for Saturday and Sunday with no rain currently forecast. Could be a stiff breeze from the West which is a tail wind in the high speed Abbey (T1) and Copse (T9) corners. Will that temperature be enough to cause high deg? Tyres will be C1, C2, C3 rather than Austria's C3, C4, C5 so we'll have to wait and see what happens.

Edit: have seen C2, C3, C4 for Silverstone which might make it more tricky if temperatures get a bit higher.
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Just_a_fan wrote:
29 Jun 2026, 17:53
Jdn1327 wrote:
29 Jun 2026, 15:23

Will deg in Silverstone be as bad as Spain?Ferrari can make a 3 stop work in Silverstone no?
Temperatures likely to be 26-28deg C for Saturday and Sunday with no rain currently forecast. Could be a stiff breeze from the West which is a tail wind in the high speed Abbey (T1) and Copse (T9) corners. Will that temperature be enough to cause high deg? Tyres will be C1, C2, C3 rather than Austria's C3, C4, C5 so we'll have to wait and see what happens.

Edit: have seen C2, C3, C4 for Silverstone which might make it more tricky if temperatures get a bit higher.
I think the issue is that Silverstone has fewer braking zones than Barcelona - even though both circuits have a lot of fast corners, they’re not as similar as we sometimes think. So deployment will probably be a particular problem.

Can the high speed corner performance + some kind of tyre deg advantage for that kind of corner cancel that out? Tough to say but I doubt it.

My hope is that perhaps they haven’t optimised the deployment software for the ADUO upgrade - so while Hamilton said the “grunt” out of a corner felt good, they ran out of deployment too soon - and maybe there’s more potential there? But that’s just wishful thinking, not necessarily based on anything.

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Interesting analysis of performances by team and driver:

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Just_a_fan wrote:
29 Jun 2026, 17:53
Jdn1327 wrote:
29 Jun 2026, 15:23

Will deg in Silverstone be as bad as Spain?Ferrari can make a 3 stop work in Silverstone no?
Edit: have seen C2, C3, C4 for Silverstone which might make it more tricky if temperatures get a bit higher.
I would ignore what you saw in the race thread. Pirelli are bringing the hardest compounds in their range - C1, C2 and C3.

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1 time is a fluke.
2 times is a concern.
3 times is a problem.
4 times is a disaster.
I am honestly shocked at the drop off from Chuck. If he does not get it right in Silverstone, it has to be asked what has happened. Commenting that 4 adolescent accidents is driver yin-yang is based. This is the highest paid driver pairing, likely by many miles, and if one of them does something like this, repeatedly/consecutively, it’s worthy of accounting in the team thread. Chuck needs to pull his $#it together. The end. No more excuses. A driver worthy of a championship should be able to adjust to any decent car without a lot of mistakes just like Max does…especially at the pay grade Chuck is enjoying (Didn’t he just upgrade his yacht again?).
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f1316 wrote:
29 Jun 2026, 19:18
Just_a_fan wrote:
29 Jun 2026, 17:53
Jdn1327 wrote:
29 Jun 2026, 15:23

Will deg in Silverstone be as bad as Spain?Ferrari can make a 3 stop work in Silverstone no?
Temperatures likely to be 26-28deg C for Saturday and Sunday with no rain currently forecast. Could be a stiff breeze from the West which is a tail wind in the high speed Abbey (T1) and Copse (T9) corners. Will that temperature be enough to cause high deg? Tyres will be C1, C2, C3 rather than Austria's C3, C4, C5 so we'll have to wait and see what happens.

Edit: have seen C2, C3, C4 for Silverstone which might make it more tricky if temperatures get a bit higher.
I think the issue is that Silverstone has fewer braking zones than Barcelona - even though both circuits have a lot of fast corners, they’re not as similar as we sometimes think. So deployment will probably be a particular problem.

Can the high speed corner performance + some kind of tyre deg advantage for that kind of corner cancel that out? Tough to say but I doubt it.

My hope is that perhaps they haven’t optimised the deployment software for the ADUO upgrade - so while Hamilton said the “grunt” out of a corner felt good, they ran out of deployment too soon - and maybe there’s more potential there? But that’s just wishful thinking, not necessarily based on anything.
Good points but not about tyre deg which is what was being discussed. :)
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LEC vs RUS Austria quali.Image

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Chuckjr wrote:
30 Jun 2026, 11:00
1 time is a fluke.
2 times is a concern.
3 times is a problem.
4 times is a disaster.
I am honestly shocked at the drop off from Chuck. If he does not get it right in Silverstone, it has to be asked what has happened. Commenting that 4 adolescent accidents is driver yin-yang is based. This is the highest paid driver pairing, likely by many miles, and if one of them does something like this, repeatedly/consecutively, it’s worthy of accounting in the team thread. Chuck needs to pull his $#it together. The end. No more excuses. A driver worthy of a championship should be able to adjust to any decent car without a lot of mistakes just like Max does…especially at the pay grade Chuck is enjoying (Didn’t he just upgrade his yacht again?).
There is absolutely no light at the end of the tunnel. He is just extremely slow and doesn’t know why as he said so himself in the interviews. Both him and Ferrari should have decided to part away at the end of 2025. At least Leclerc got a massive salary, Ferrari is completely ---, but it’s also on them not being able to help Leclerc. Now they have to rely on Hamilton who as i said looks ok only because Leclerc current abysmal level. Good luck to Ferrari for the rest of the season and next year. If they want to fire Leclerc they will have to give him like 150M.

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I would like to remember everyone that Leclerc is the driver we considered the embodiment of Ferrari spirit for the last 7 years.
He has been a great driver and he still is. There is something in the car that prevents him from driving like he does.
He and the team will figure this out and we all will move on, very soon.