The Ferrari SF-24 was launched in front of a small audience of guests today, while the rest of the world watched online. It is the 70th car the company has built to take part in the Formula 1 World Championship. Attending the presentation at the Fiorano track were President John Elkann, CEO Benedetto Vigna and Vice-President Piero Ferrari, along with representatives of the partners, as well as team members, starting with Team Principal Fred Vasseur and the drivers Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz. The busiest season ever, with no fewer than 24 races, gets underway next week in Bahrain with the only pre-season three-day test session, followed by the first grand prix at the same venue, on Saturday 2 March.
The SF-24 is the third car of the new Formula 1 ground effect generation, but it breaks with the tradition of the past two years, starting with the look of it. The design group, led by Enrico Cardile, aimed to give Charles and Carlos a car that is easy to drive and that reacts predictably, with as a starting point, the positive feeling the drivers had in the cockpit over the final few races of last season. The goal is to allow them to make the most of the power unit’s potential, combined with their undoubted skill behind the wheel.
The SF-24 is the third car of the new Formula 1 ground effect generation, but it breaks with the tradition of the past two years, starting with the look of it. The design group, led by Enrico Cardile, aimed to give Charles and Carlos a car that is easy to drive and that reacts predictably, with as a starting point, the positive feeling the drivers had in the cockpit over the final few races of last season. The goal is to allow them to make the most of the power unit’s potential, combined with their undoubted skill behind the wheel.
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00:00 [WHOOSHING]
00:03 The main targets we give to us developing the SF24
00:17 has been to enhance the drivability of our car
00:21 to allow our drivers to exploit all the potential.
00:25 The other target has been to have a robust platform
00:29 in terms of delivery on track to make sure
00:32 that all the performance developed in wind tunnel
00:35 will be present also on track.
00:36 Designing the SF24, we didn't give us any constraint.
00:47 It was important to unlock all the performance available.
00:52 For that reason, all the areas of the car
00:54 has been interested to a complete revamp.
00:58 The target we had for developing the SF24
01:09 has been the same we gave us during the season
01:14 development of the SF23.
01:16 So in terms of a general target, the SF24
01:20 is in continuity with what we tried
01:23 to achieve with the SF23 during the season,
01:26 but it's a big departure compared
01:28 to what we did in '22 and '23.
01:31 To have a clear idea on how to develop the car
01:42 means for us to have understood the comments of our drivers
01:47 and to have translated them into engineering
01:51 logistics parameters.
01:53 So the drivers are the pivot of our development,
01:57 and as engineers, our duty is to understand
02:02 what to do, how to develop the car to make them happy on track.
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