Recently, relevant foreign F1 fans released a conjecture map of Ferrari's 2024 car on Twitter, from which it can be seen that it is basically in line with the general analysis of the content of the previous issues, and the chassis of the overall 676 project is very similar to the concept of Red Bull. This can't help but spark heated discussions among fans in the comment section, and some fans even think that Ferrari may be the only team that can challenge Red Bull this year, and if so, then most of the Iron Buddha Temple will be excited.
In fact, from the second half of the 2023 season, Ferrari has already highlighted the trend of recovery, especially after the final round of upgrades in Japan, the car's long-distance performance has improved by leaps and bounds, thanks to the overheating of the rear wheels, Ferrari is currently undergoing intensive bench endurance tests and assembly of the whole car at its headquarters in Maranello, and we will see the new car in three weeks.
The main problem of last year's SF23 was the lack of downforce at the rear of the car, too much rear wheel slippage directly led to the consistency of the car's long-distance rhythm, especially the lack of downforce in the middle and high-speed corners, in order to increase downforce to the SF23, the Maranello team brought some upgrades, but the inherent stubbornness of the racing chassis made these upgrades only 50% of the power, so the change in the position of the lateral impact crossbar will inevitably become a mandatory change for the 2024 new car, which is clearly visible from the conjecture map flowing on the Internet.
As for the changes to the floor, the team brought a completely new design of the skirt grille layout in Suzuka, Japan, which is more forward than the old skirt grille to prevent the front wheel wake from flowing under the floor as much as possible.
In addition, at the edge of the middle and rear floors, near the front of the rear wheels, Ferrari abandoned the previous upturned design similar to the diffuser in favor of a bulge design, and equipped with two new vortex generators in the middle, all of which were undoubtedly aimed at creating a stronger seal at the edges of the baseplate, and the result was an increase in the aerodynamic efficiency of the middle and rear floors, thereby indirectly increasing the downforce output of the baseplate, as we can see from the conjecture diagram, the same design has been retained.
In Austria last year, Ferrari brought a new front wing, the new front wing compared with the past, the area and angle of attack of the three layers of flaps have been reduced, the profile is also closer to the design of Red Bull, the specific characteristics are that the front wing flaps to the vertical end plate transition is steeper, in order to increase the airflow outside the area of the wash effect, in addition, the flatter front wing will make the car lose some of the downforce, but the new front wing improves the quality of the air flow into the underside and side compartment undercut area, thereby increasing the proportion of downforce output from the floor, which is equivalent to indirectly improving the overall balance of the car。
In addition, we can also see the huge undercut of the side compartment and the tail underwash that fans are thinking about in the conjecture picture, which is very similar to the Red Bull, but the picture does not show whether Ferrari will adopt the smooth design of the Red Bull or the sliding slide design of Aston Martin, but like them, in order to match the new side compartment concept, Ferrari has deployed a "cannon" design with a huge cooling opening above the rear Coke bottle, which is about the same as our previous prediction.
But unlike our prediction, foreign fans seem to be more inclined to let the new Ferrari 2024 model car also copy Red Bull's pull-back layout in the front and rear suspension design, but many netizens believe that Ferrari will still use the previous traditional layout of push-back and pull in 2024, but it will significantly increase the anti-pitch performance of the front and rear suspension, so the upper wishbone behind the front suspension and the upper wishbone in front of the rear suspension will definitely be installed in a lower position with the chassis.
Regardless of the changes, one thing is certain, and that is that Ferrari will pay more attention to the stability of the chassis mechanical platform and the coupling between the different aerodynamic packages this year to achieve predictability and consistency of downforce on the floor, which is the key to our inference that Ferrari will be able to challenge Red Bull this year.