Ferrari unveil their heavily-modified 2024 F1 challenger

Ferrari have grow to be the most recent Method One crew to indicate off their 2024 F1 automobile with the Italian crew revealing their brand-new SF-24 in a brief on-line video.

The Maranello-based F1 outfit offered its new automobile a day earlier in comparison with final 12 months because it wished to offer itself a further day to arrange itself for the upcoming pre-season testing that takes place subsequent week in Bahrain.

The brand new automobile will bear the identify SF-24 which continues the custom that the Scuderia established firstly of the brand new hybrid period in 2014. The Italian outfit will race with an unchanged driver line-up with Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc set to drive for the crew collectively for the final time earlier than seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton joins Ferrari in 2025.

Following a troublesome 2023 F1 marketing campaign that noticed Ferrari clinch a single victory courtesy of Carlos Sainz, the crew has revised its final 12 months’s automobile in each side, claiming that the 2024 F1 machine is “95% new” in comparison with its predecessor.

Whereas a number of rivals which have already proven off their new automobile opted for a primarily black livery for weight saving, Ferrari have hardly modified the color scheme of their new SF-24 in comparison with its predecessor. The brand new automobile sports activities the next proportion of black colouring with parallel yellow and white stripes operating alongside the size of the sidepod and on the nostril cone.

With final 12 months’s SF-23 having proved troublesome and unpredictable to driver, the Maranello-based squad acknowledged that the purpose was to offer the 2 drivers “a automobile that’s simple to drive and that reacts predictably, with as a place to begin, the optimistic feeling the drivers had within the cockpit over the ultimate few races of final season. The purpose is to permit them to benefit from the ability unit’s potential, mixed with their undoubted ability behind the wheel.”

“With the SF-24 we wished to create a complete new platform,” Enrico Cardile, technical director chassis, defined. “In truth, it may be stated that each space of the automobile has been redesigned.

“Now we have reworked the indications of the drivers into engineering greatnesses and have accommodated their must have a automobile that’s simpler to drive and subsequently to take advantage of and take to the restrict.

“Now we have not set ourselves any design constraints apart from to acquire a strong and honest single-seater, which additionally does on the observe what we see within the wind tunnel, taking as some extent of reference the course of improvement that we had adopted final 12 months and that on the finish of the season had made us take a leap ahead when it comes to competitiveness”.

Ferrari’s 2024 F1 automobile is the primary one which Workforce Principal Fred Vasseur has correctly overseen the event of, having began in his function in January final 12 months when work on the SF-23 was primarily full.

The Frenchman commented: “Presenting a brand new automobile to the world for the primary time is all the time a really thrilling second for me and the drivers, even when we’re all already excited about the second we’ll go face to face with our rivals on observe. This 12 months, we should begin off the place we left off on the finish of final season, after we have been constant entrance runners, with a view to always enhancing in all areas.

“The longest ever Method 1 season awaits us and Charles, Carlos and I all agree, we have to be extra medical and efficient in how we handle the races, making daring decisions, in an effort to get the very best end result at each Grand Prix. It’s usually stated that your followers may give you an additional gear and that can positively be true in what will probably be a really intently contested championship and we’re proud to know we are able to depend on our “tifosi” from around the globe.”

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