“That's my personal judgement,” he explains. but you can also move what you can: toe, camber, stiffness, weight distribution, weight balance, aero balance, to see if you can somehow try to replicate the situation in terms of tyre wear. So you've got a car, which is what it is in terms of setup in terms of design, etc. Photo by: Mark Sutton / Motorsport Images
F1 2021 FRANCE SETUP DRIVER
“We made various simulations, off track simulation and driver simulator, and tried to map what is the influence of car design into the tyre wear, and are we capable of somehow trying to replicate what was the tyre wear we had in France by moving the car design concepts.Ĭarlos Sainz Jr., Ferrari SF21, Pierre Gasly, AlphaTauri AT02, and Charles Leclerc, Ferrari SF21
“So what we did at the time is tried to move the parameters of the car concept, like suspension geometries, weight distribution, or whatever you may have. So was that due to a car concept, or was it due to more car setup, or was it, tyre management, and driver style? “If we look at not only France, but all the races just before France, on average compared to the entire grid, we were the ones that were somehow wearing the most on the front. “We tried back at Maranello to approach the exercise in terms of: do we have an issue on our car, in terms of concept, which as a consequence is bringing that type of tyre wear?,” says Binotto. But I think lacking only in one area, that would be even worse because it means that you need to recover a lot in a single area which can be more difficult. “I also don't think we are lacking only in one area. It is a sum of various areas, so it is a sum of certainly aerodynamics, power unit, and overall systems on the car. I think that 0.7s not only comes from one single area.
F1 2021 FRANCE SETUP UPGRADE
With 163 points to its name after the first ten rounds this year, making it joint third in the standings with McLaren, Ferrari has already easily eclipsed the 131 that it scored during 2020.Ī halving of the gap to Mercedes and Red Bull is certainly a good step in the right direction, and Binotto thinks it is 60% down to an improvement with the power unit and 40% down to the chassis.īut however good a halving of the gap to the front is, the reality is also that it shows there is still as big a jump again if it is to be in a position to beat Mercedes and Red Bull in pure pace terms.įerrari hopes of doing that will be boosted by a ‘significant’ engine upgrade that is coming in the second half of the campaign, but progress on the car front will be down to incremental improvements rather than there being a magic bullet.īinotto adds: “There are still gaps to the best, as we've said, 0.7s in the quali.
On points terms the step forward can be seen by everybody. And it is these figures that have left him pretty chuffed with where things are going. Sure, there are some obvious front of stage performances, like Charles Leclerc’s pole positions in Monaco and Baku this year, that show it’s on the right path.īut Binotto prefers digging into more detailed numbers to evaluate just where Ferrari is at right now. Time and again this season, Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto has been clear on that point: saying that it is ‘progression’ that matters far more than the final result in the 2021 constructors’ championship standings.īut judging progression can sometimes be a subjective thing, which makes it hard for those outside of Ferrari’s senior management to understand just where the team is stacking up in its quest to get back to the front.
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