15/07/2025 09:15
Ferrari feels its next set of F1 upgrades must address the car
balance of the SF-25 after a positive step forward in Austria. In
Spielberg, the Scuderia deployed fresh floor and diffuser upgrades,
as the new parts contributed to the team's best weekend of the
season with a three-four finish, albeit Charles Leclerc was 20
seconds behind the McLaren one-two spearheaded by Lando Norris.
Lewis Hamilton has called for a more consistent balance from his
car as he looks to claim a first grand prix podium for his new
team, with deputy team boss Jerome D'Ambrosio explaining how this
is an area which needs to be targeted with the next set of
updates. "It is obviously about correlation to the wind-tunnel and
there are different layers you get," D'Ambrosio told the media,
including RacingNews365. "You have CFD [computational fluid
dynamics], and then try to bring that to the tunnel and have
different layers of validation and correlation and then obviously,
the last one is putting it on the track. "You get your numbers in
the tunnel and then put it [the car] on track and hope to see what
you expected, and that is what happened with us [in Austria], so it
is a good thing. "We are definitely trying to work on improving the
car balance to help the drivers, and there is performance in that,
but it is sometimes difficult to predict the amount of performance
you will bring to the track. "There are aspects of car balance
which are also driver preference, driver comfort, driving style and
so on, which are taken into consideration to get the car into a
better place, but overall, you are not considering one driver or
the other. "You are just trying to put the car into a better
balance, and there is an objective point which will bring
performance to the team. "In the end, we have objective metrics
and objective targets of how to bring performance to the car."
