Ferrari suffered the development of the SF-24 in Montreal. The Cavallino team was unable to extract the real potential contained in the car from the red and both Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz complained of a car that was simply not fast.
Fred Vasseur didn’t want to give too many details about the Maranello team’s difficult weekend on the island of Notre Dame, but he also mentioned something about tire pressure. The feeling is that the data that were used to prepare for the trip to North America were not as precise as always (there is new asphalt in Montreal) and the red suffered a serious lack of grip which was not resolved with the inability to “turn on” the tire, as has happened other times this year at the start of the season.
We repeatedly saw Ferrari struggle in the first section of the track and then be competitive in the other two, as soon as the tires entered the operating window. This was not the case in Canada, where the SF-24 did not show known behavior, remaining well below the expected behavior on all three parts of the track, with a performance threshold significantly lower than not only Red Bull and McLaren , but also suffering against Mercedes, Racing Bulls, Aston Martin and Williams.
The different cooling of the Ferrari SF-24 between Monaco and Canada where the red one is much more closed
Picture of: Giorgio Piola
It is obvious that there was something anomalous that penalized the Ferraris. The Maranello technicians do not let any information leak out, but the doubt is that to tackle the Canadian track with an asphalt with very limited grip and the need to attack the curbs of the chicanes to find the times, single-seaters with a height higher from the ground than the aerodynamic map for which they were designed. During the weekend we never saw the cars crashing onto the asphalt, a sign that the general trend was to follow safety measures.
One might say that in these particular conditions the Mercedes suffered less from the loss of aerodynamic load, being the one among the top teams that suffers the lack of it the most. George Russell’s pole shouldn’t be surprising: the Englishman found a mix of situations that favored the W15 and was able to take advantage of it.
Ferrari, on the contrary, could be the single-seater that has suffered the most from working in a compromised aerodynamic window (there is also the threat of rain for the race), leaving more performance on the road than expected. It’s clear that it’s one thing to find the time for a flying lap with an empty tank and another to prepare for the race with over 100 kg of fuel from a full tank.
The two red cars in the sixth row could be less handicapped in race configuration, giving that comeback to the threshold of the podium that was already seen last year with the derelict SF-23…
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