Ferrari unveil their heavily-modified 2024 F1 challenger

Ferrari have develop into the newest Formula One group to indicate off their 2024 F1 automotive with the Italian group revealing their brand-new SF-24 in a brief on-line video.

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

The new automotive will bear the title SF-24 which continues the custom that the Scuderia established initially 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 group collectively for the final time earlier than seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton joins Ferrari in 2025.

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

While a number of rivals which have already proven off their new automotive 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 new automotive sports activities a better 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 tough and unpredictable to driver, the Maranello-based squad said that the intention was to offer the 2 drivers “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.”

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

“We have reworked the indications of the drivers into engineering greatnesses and have accommodated their must have a automotive that’s simpler to drive and due to this fact to take advantage of and take to the restrict.

“We have not set ourselves any design constraints other than to obtain a robust and sincere single-seater, which also does on the track what we see in the wind tunnel, taking as a point of reference the direction of development that we had adopted last year and that at the end of the season had made us take a leap forward in terms of competitiveness”.

Ferrari’s 2024 F1 automotive is the primary one which Team 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 automotive to the world for the primary time is at all times a really thrilling second for me and the drivers, even when we’re all already interested by the second we are going to go face to face with our rivals on monitor. This 12 months, we should begin off the place we left off on the finish of final season, after we had been constant entrance runners, with a view to continuously bettering in all areas.

“The longest ever Formula 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, so as to get the very best consequence at each Grand Prix. It’s typically mentioned that your followers may give you an additional gear and that can positively be true in what might be a really carefully contested championship and we’re proud to know we are able to rely on our “tifosi” from all over the world.”