Crucial_Xtreme wrote:It seems to me with the new Reg changes & PU changes the team is taking a bit of a conservative approach to testing. Which is understandable with the Aero problems that has plagued the team in recent years. What's different is we have not seen the team this cautious and this deliberate in years. Allison has a plan and is sticking to it. When have we seen Ferrari completely Aero map the entire car like we have with the F14 T? Haven't. Obviously it's for help/confirmation of correlation but also performance. The team, the car is different this year. So will be the results.
Having talked to a team member, it seems that this is the case, indeed, although not directly confirmed by him.
Certainly, we cannot tell Ferrari what to do, as they are the seasoned professionals
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But we can analyze.
Jerez:
- Flow-viz on the entire nose plus front wing - makes a lot of sense, as there are prominent changes
- Immediate small aero rake behind front wheels, supposedly to check tire wake flow and respectively interaction with front wing end plates plus FW reduced size. Correlation type testing set, as this is already done in the wind tunnel and with CFD.
- Next was flow-viz of front brake ducts
- Aero rake at central section, again:
- Flow viz on the rear wing
(I may be missing something here...)
Bahrain:
- Aero rake on the rear wing
- Aero rake behind the diffuser
- Large aero rake at the side central section of the car, different than Jerez:
- Completely new front wing.
Put this way, it looks like a systematic effort. The car obviously need some more raw pace, or at least that's the way I decrypt Alonso's comments from yesterday:
"We really need to exploit the potential of the car. I think right now we are missing something."
While Alonso wants to see more performance from his car, after he "found one setup that did work and two things that didn't", he believes that his and Ferrari's mileage so far leaves him in a good position.
On the plus side, the race simulation is successful.