2026 Scuderia Ferrari HP F1 Team

[Fakepivot]

he had traffic.. but ferrari looking good, lets see what happens tomorow, but good friday..

[j_ste]

What we would all give to hear them both say tomorrow “ the car felt fine on Friday and it was even better today!”

[matt_b]

Both drivers were in a lot of traffic during their long runs, it comical looking at the driver tracker, meanwhile Kimi had clean air every lap bar one. Overall a solid day for the team but I know Mercedes will suddenly be up there tomorrow just like Monaco so they need to keep pushing.

[f1Follower]

Is there any race simulation done in FP2. Usually in FP2 teams does race simulation

[SB15]

Is there any race simulation done in FP2. Usually in FP2 teams does race simulation

Leclerc was running similar times to Kimi but that's still scary pace from Kimi is an unbalanced car

[dans79]

Leclerc was running similar times to Kimi but that's still scary pace from Kimi is an unbalanced car
https://preview.redd.it/2026-hungarian- ... 9d58fdf591

Driving an unbalanced car is substantially easier when you are several seconds slower than the car's ultimate capability. We also don't know the fuel load.

[avada]

I always felt he is overhyped, and that the overall team of the engineers and testing, correlating etc, is a lot more forceful entity than one person. And how these people work together is also super important factor.
I think this is what Vasseur said too, and He is probably right. Yet, on top of such a good system a good leader is golden.

I think it's very much necessary to be brilliant and to have an overall understanding of car design.
Newey is pretty much unique these days. He worked as a race engineer, a car designer, he drove cars, and I think he has an overall understanding of mechanics, chassis and aero. So he can be the top engineer keeping a holistic view to great effect.

This is not unique to him, most if not all top engineers in F1 went through the ladder and worked on many aspects of cars and design. This is a trait of most good engineer.
I personally hold Rory Bryne in a much higher regard than Newey, just look at his achievements, you will be surprised. He always tried to stay out of the limelight, and hidden, which speaks about his personality too.
Or Ross Brawn, etc.

I don't think many have deep understanding about multiple aspects of a car. And no-one else has racing experience with cars.
I don't know much about Byrne, other than his cars won for 5 years in a row. And in a less dominant fashion twice in the nineties.
Brawn was last a designer in the 80s I believe. With no particularly successful design that I remember.
But he did manage technical departments well, at Ferrari, and then laying the foundation for Mercedes' success.

[Artur Craft]

Antonelli probably didn’t show his true one lap pace. He is faster than leclerc on the soft long runs. Still the man to beat unfortunately. Of course others are gonna improve tomorrow. I doubt pole will be easy.

Smart man. Don´t let Mercedes fool you again like they did in Monaco with their massive pace hiding. Ferrari could still lock the front row but Mercedes can be a serious threat indeed.

[Just_a_fan]

Brawn was last a designer in the 80s I believe. With no particularly successful design that I remember.

XJR-14 which took F1 aero in to sportscars. Although he was part of a team including John Piper who helped design the 6R4 and other successful racing cars. I think Brawn's skill was in management and, perhaps, self-promotion. He certainly rose from simple machinist pretty quickly.

[SSJ4]

Mechanical grip in the final sector is insane. Props to the Ferrari engineers.

[Artur Craft]

I´m starting to smell some sorrow here after QLF. Norris and Antonelli look way too quick....

[PlatinumZealot]

They really need to outlaw machine learning or any other kind of algorithm that determines the deployment and have it purely as a response to a driver command (i would favour some kind of button but could be mapped to the throttle per Gary Anderson’s suggestion).

They aren't running anything fancy, because realistically they can't. The MCU is equivalent to a Raspberry Pi 4B with regard to processing power. In my opinion, they are likely using multi-dimensional lookup tables/maps to try and determine where they are on the track and thus how they should regen and deploy. However, unlike the previous regulation set, the electrical system is ~50% of the total power output, so any issue, even a momentary one, is glaringly apparent.

I agree. They are seriously limited in the car by the electronics they have.
The problems which appear at every team shows, they have problems in determining where is the car on the track.
The relatively simple system can be fooled by the driver taking a corner differently, driving differently basically confuses the system, so the power deployment will be inappropriate to the current location of the car.
However I think they still have a method to reset in every lap, as I see they mostly have such problems for less than a lap.

Still, I do not think that the sport, and especially the viewer needs this kind of complexity. This is simply useless from this point of view.
I would love if F1 would take out all such driver aid electronics. It would even work with the current regulation, drivers could use electrical power and charging by their own, using buttons or pedals...
I do not understand why the FIA does not realise, they only need to have anything if it benefits the viewer and the purity of racing.

If the energy recharge limits were removed it would solve all of this crap. Keep the deploy limits.. Which is easy for the ECU to meter and remove the recharge limits. The teams use the car's position on the track to help the ECU chose the most opitmal way to recharge becauae it's a limited resource. This is the problem IMO when it comes to the regen mapping. Just remove it all together.

[PlatinumZealot]

Sublime braking by Lewis in sector 3. Charles not able to replicate that magic sector 2.

[CRazyLemon]

There's hope it is an FP3 undercook from Ferrari as they've done for the past few races.

[Fakepivot]

ferrari saving 1 soft for race tomorow.. are medium bad race tyre?