Ferrari’s senior efficiency engineer Jock Clear says that the crew “hasn’t modified something” regardless of murmurings over inner modifications to its entrance wing to profit from larger flexing.
The Italian squad had been one of many groups to lodge a question with the FIA over the entrance wings of Mercedes and McLaren, underneath the idea that these had been flexing past a permissible quantity regardless of passing the governing physique’s rigidity checks.
After the FIA supplied clarification, it opened the door for different groups to pursue an identical design, with Ferrari understood to have pressed its personal model into service. This was thought of as a possible contributor to the crew’s dominant 1-2 at the US Grand Prix final weekend.
However Clear said that it was “questionable” to debate how the opposite groups had been progressing with their very own designs, and that the FIA was pleased with Ferrari’s adherence to the rules.
In response to a query about lead instances for flexing entrance wings following the FIA’s clarification, Clear stated: “I believe that what you are speaking about there may be particularly a reasonably questionable dialogue.
“We do not know what different groups are doing. We solely know what we’re doing on our automobile. We interpret the principles in the way in which that we predict is the proper interpretation and the FIA have by no means questioned any of our interpretation of the principles.
“We proceed to develop as a lot as we are able to and as quick as we are able to inside the scope of the principles. We’ve not modified something.Â
Jock Clear, Senior Efficiency Engineer, Scuderia Ferrari
Photograph by: Andreas Beil
“If we have a look at what different folks do, we are able to solely guess what truly is happening. We will not do bodily checks on it. We might solely work on our personal automobile and we’re comfy with the event, just about since Austria.
“And for the reason that summer time break, we have actually received a grip of what course to go in, each on the event and on the set-up.”
Clear defined that Ferrari’s kind at Austin got here from its personal understanding of the way it missed the mark on the Austrian Grand Prix in June, noting the similarity between the 2 venues.
He added Austin additionally proved that Ferrari’s upgrades on the finish of the European season had labored to alleviate its mid-season stoop following a misfiring Barcelona replace bundle.
“There have been issues we did on the set-up; I believe we received it improper in Austria, which is a really comparable circuit to Austin, funnily sufficient.Â
“Not completely true, however the features of Austin that labored for us had been a results of what we did not get working in Austria.
“So successfully, the bundle was very comparable. Clearly, we introduced upgrades in Singapore, we introduced upgrades in Italy that had been generic [not track-specific].
“I believe Austin was a proof of that bundle. However greater than that, what we did accurately in Austin was correcting the errors we made in Austria when it comes to set-up.”
