Smouldering Hungaroring!
Sportstar|August 19, 2017

There’s a lot of interesting stuff for Ferrari to analyse because there’s a clear trend here: when there’s a circuit that requires a high amount of down-force and has a lot of corners where one leads into the other, the FERRARI IS RIGHT THERE, and if anything, is quicker than the Mercedes.

Smouldering Hungaroring!

The Hungarian Grand Prix was boiling, boiling hot. It all started off with thunder storms on Wednesday (July 26) and Thursday (July 27), but as the weekend went along it got hotter and hotter. Track temperatures were into the low 50s at one point, so it was an absolutely scorching weekend.

Ferrari continues the trend

There is plenty to talk about, despite the fact that the race wasn’t one with a lot of overtaking. There were lots of stories, all the way up and down the pit-lane. Once again, on a track where dirty down-force is important, Ferrari came to the fore. What I mean by that is when a team aims for a high amount of down-force without considering a penalty for drag, because there aren’t really any long straights. They really managed to suss that out.When the car is producing a really good amount of down-force, it’s the straight-line speed that the team needs to address.

If we look at the trend in Monaco, they were particularly strong. Here, they were very strong. When you look at tracks like Silverstone, Baku and even Montreal, the Ferraris couldn’t really challenge the Mercedes cars. I’ll be interested to see during this summer break whether they work on efficiency of the chassis or just outright power from the power unit, in terms of the IC and the ERS side as well. I think there’s

a lot of interesting stuff for Ferrari to analyse because there’s a clear trend here: when there’s a circuit that requires a high amount of down-force and has a lot of corners where one leads into the other, the Ferrari is right there, and if anything, is quicker than the Mercedes.

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