Bojan Vrbnjak
How strong it can be Ferrari improves in season 2021? The question asked by many experts, and even more so of course the loyal fans of the Reds from Maranella, famous typhoid. No one expects big steps as it will be new SF21 direct successor SF1000, which was a single disappointment. A pri Ferrari they want to eliminate at least "genetic defects“Which hampered both racers Leclerc and Vettl this season.
Mattia binotto, the head of the team, does not want to promise much before the coming year, but wants to finish the season on third place for Mercedes and Red Bullom. "We have to be realistic. We cannot make up for the deficit in capacity that exists between us and the best today. The time for this is short and the technical situation is too complicated.“Because the race cars are for next year to a large extent frozen. Otherwise, the development of aerodynamics is allowed, but the basic chassis remains the same. Each team has only one at their disposal two tokens to improve the car. “But even in the field of aerodynamics, where there are no limits, we will have little room for development because the available time in the wind tunnel and simulations has been reduced to 60 percent,”He says binotto.
Still, it’s in sight new car optimistic. “In addition to the new engine, we will have significantly redesigned aerodynamics in the 2021 season, thanks to which we should solve most of the important problems of the 2020 season car.“It’s no secret that both development tokens will be spent on the rear of the SF21 race car, which is supposed to get a more compact and thus more stable power transmission. This gives them two advantages: Once aerodynamic in nature and a second adjustment rear hangers, where the gearbox housing will also be adjusted. To this it must be said that Ferrari basically had no reliability issues in this area, but in Maranello they are confident that they will be able to s body and diffuser achieve more vacuum, even more than with wings.
With a new one power transmission will be able to elements with hydraulic steering moved to the rear suspension, which was too unstable due to the inclination angle at different heights. Suddenly vacuum losses they made the ass very unstable, all the way to the point where the car was for a racer like Sebastian Vettel almost impassable. The German gives preference to a race car that is almost glued to the track. A new, more streamlined element will force engine engineers to change exhaust, which will need to be more compact. This is a complicated but necessary matter, because they want to reduce it at least in part aerodynamic blockage of refrigerators. So far, hot air has been coming out of the car too slowly, which has forced Ferrari to install larger cooling vents, which, however, have affected the aerodynamic effect. Due to this air resistance the car SF1000 nor could he reach top speeds.
And while he wants to Ferrari to bring the problems in this important area under control, however, is not yet going so smoothly. A new exhaust on the test bench says reliability problem. So there are still some hurdles they need to overcome until the first test in Barcelona, also due to the fact that the new rules FIA limit the maximum number of experiments on the test bench. The new internal combustion engine is already delivering 15 horses more than the 2020 variant. The goal is to date homologation they find 30 horses and they are supposed to succeed with new refrigerator and improvements to MGU-K components. The latter is supposed to emit electricity for a longer cycle. Will be the successor to the race car SF1000 despite all the similarities, he had more success, the 2021 season will show.
