2026 Scuderia Ferrari HP F1 Team

[AR3-GP]

Ferrari were only 4th best car just last race weekend on Sunday.

I think that Ferrari experienced a circuit specific cooling problem in Austria.

[deadhead]

Are Ferrari expected to run the same low downforce package at Spa as they did at Silverstone?

[PlatinumZealot]

I don't think it was a software change. Per Leclerc it sounds like setup and then changing how he takes corners:

Q: How is it possible for things to change so much in the car? Yesterday you talked about philosophical changes but as far as I'm concerned, I don't know of any philosophy that can make the car go faster.

Leclerc: When I say philosophical, I mean more about the small changes I can make to my driving style, to drive a little better in different phases of cornering. I don't want to go into too much detail, but there's a few things I saw on the data on Friday night and went "OK, so those things might not be suitable for my driving style." And then we changed our approach from the sprint to qualifying and performed better. The change wasn't black and white, it wasn't the type where you look at the data and know for sure that you need to change something. It's more intuition and feeling and making changes suitable for my style. We decided to just go for it and it turned out to be the right direction.

Glad that the drivers are being pushed to their abosulte limits and have to dig deep. Competitive drivers are great for development.

[f1316]

I hope now the FiA does not ban the wing as RB rear wing failed.

Yeah, I had the same concern - it’s the type of thing you can imagine them doing.

It wouldn’t make a lot of sense because (a) the regular “DRS style” wing can also fail and used to more frequently in the early days (it took a bit of time to iron out all the bugs) (b) it’s in the FIA’s interest for teams to reduce drag as much as possible (in order to make up for the lack of battery power).