The Scuderia promises a “completely different Ferrari” for 2024.

Neither of the two Ferraris from the last two Formula 1 years was slow. At full speed and on a lap, notably in the F1-75 in 2022 and more rarely in the SF-23 in 2023, it was on par with – and sometimes won – pole position over the dominant Red Bull RB18 and RB19.

But on Sunday the sequence of laps in the race changed. After the Austrian Grand Prix in 2022, where Charles Leclerc won confidently and which reached its peak this year, Ferrari’s cars showed clear and persistent problems in the handling of each type of tire, putting them against Red Bull – and at times, in this year, against Aston Martin – made it unrivaled and Mercedes, significantly better at tire management.

However, the design of the Ferraris of the last two years is not far behind in absolute one-lap speed and although the Scuderia began making significant progress in tire management last July – as shown by podium finishes at Spa and Monza – the team has decided , to radically change this philosophy in the Cavallino 2024.

The reason is obvious: the Italian team still cannot keep up with Red Bull on Sundays. Last year at Monza he came closer than ever before, albeit on a very low boost track (suitable for the SF-23), and again both Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez had little trouble overtaking Carlos Sainz and giving him one of the to deprive the first two places of the Italian GP in 2023.

Furthermore, both Sainz and Charles Leclerc have repeatedly – ​​and publicly – expressed their view that the SF-23 is a car with very narrow performance margins in its aerodynamic performance. Hence the large performance differences on slow routes (high stroke) compared to fast routes and the instability of its settings.

For these reasons, as Enrico Cardile, head of aerodynamics at Maranello, explains, Ferrari will change the design philosophy of its new car. This means that the 2024 Cavallino will not be a further development of this year’s (and therefore the 2022 F1-75).

After all, this is the first car under the leadership of new team manager Fred Wasser, and more than a few argue that the Scuderia – like Mercedes and like Aston has already done since last year – will turn to Red Bull’s RB19 philosophy.

So the Ferrari of 2024 “It will be very different because when developing this year’s car we realized that the architectural decisions we made were not the right ones,” Cardile explained.

“In particular, they imposed a lot of restrictions on the development (of the car). Next year’s car will not be an evolution of this year’s as this year’s was compared to last year’s. “It will be a completely new car – a different chassis with a different design and a redesigned rear so that the aerodynamics department can better develop it to achieve our goals,” concluded the Italian.