#sf-24?

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Ferrari’s Head of Chassis, Enrico Cardile at Dutch GP

What can you say about the 2024 Ferrari?

"Not a lot, but it will be very different, because developing this year’s car, we realised that some architectural choices we did were not right – it was constraining the development too much. From there, next year’s car will not be an evolution of this year’s car like this year’s car has been compared to last year’s car, but it will be a brand-new car – different chassis with different design, different rear end to allow our aero [department] to better develop the car to achieve their targets."

Having described 2023 as “crucial” for Ferrari to “better understand” their issues, he added:

"For us, it is crystal clear what we did wrong with the car… The weaknesses [are] clear, it’s not a matter of understanding what we should do. Now, for the future, it’s a matter of delivering a good product which will cope with the targets we have. We are not in ‘nowhere land’, we know what we have to do. It’s a matter of doing, it’s a matter of finding the right contents of the car, the right architecture of the car to achieve the target."

Charles in response to Cardile’s comments after quali:

"It’s great to hear that and obviously I can’t wait. First, I’ve got a season to finish in 2023, but we can only go in another direction because at the moment the car is really difficult to drive. It’s just very, very difficult to be on the limit

I think we are particularly struggling this weekend and even more so than what the balance would slow us down, just because we need to be so far off the limit. As soon as you get close to the limit, you just really don’t know what’s going to happen. That’s exactly what happened in my Q3 lap, so it’s a difficult situation."

Source: formula1.com

Just when did they realize their choices were wrong? Obviously, Charles didn't find out until testing.

"Crystal clear what they did wrong." Hopefully this means it's easy enough to get it right then?

He makes it sounds so easy to get it right. Stop giving me hope, Enrico.

Not really earth-shattering news here, but Charles's comments make it very clear he is the one driving this car on the limit, risking it all every time he does.

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📷 Leann Millo

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Japanese GP '24 // SF Full Access

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Well the season ended time to say goodbye to these rot in there rb-20 and sf-24

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leclerc girlies how r we doing😍

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Well, might as well just

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6 TENTHS?!

Charles’ brake issue in Bahrain cost him 6 tenths per lap! 😭 Imagine the race we could have had!

(Source: formu1a.uno)

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First look at SF-24. Spoiler alert: It's red. 🏎

🎥 Scuderia Ferrari

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Charles Leclerc on the grid ahead of the sprint - Qatar, 2024

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A top speeds chart is circulating around Twitter again where Charles has a low number and I feel like I've seen this film so many times before. So much misinformation on that site. It's like people forget about the concept of DRS the moment they see this chart every time.

"How did Charles manage to keep Piastri behind with that difference" almost as if the difference was not there when Oscar didn't have DRS

Sorry, I didn't mean to make this sound so harsh on people on twitter but they do piss me off sometimes with their misinformation.

https://x.com/F1BigData/status/1863316187536388524?s=19

Honestly this is probably too nice to the ppl on twitter, but I digress. Every time the top speed graph comes up we have the same issue.

Max and Charles were the only ones who had no long runs in DRS. Max was at the front the entire time, so of course he was never running DRS. Charles was out of Oscar's DRS most of the race and didn't get any really long runs in it. And after he gained P2 he was never close enough to Max.

You really need a run in DRS to get the high 320 - low 330 speeds we saw on the rest of the field.

This of course isn't reflective of the car's true top speed capabilities on this track(quali would be a better reference for that) or the overall race pace. Both Charles and Max had excellent pace.

SF-24 didn't get us to P2 today for you to call her a tractor.

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Saudi Arabian GP ‘24 // SF Full Access

“Hair okay?”

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JOE BURROW and JA’MARR CHASE @ San Francisco 49ers (October 29, 2023)

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SF-24

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