TECH WEEKLY: How Ferrari's Monza upgrades helped the team to address a key problem


Ferrari’s Monza victory coincided with a significant update – just as McLaren’s decisive win at Zandvoort did before it. But, as with McLaren a week earlier, the circuit characteristics were a good match with the traits of the winning car regardless of updates, so we should be cautious about aligning correlation with causation in both cases.
The SF-24's new floor has been targeted very much at giving better control of the bouncing problem introduced in the car with its Barcelona upgrade earlier in the season. At Monza, Ferrari’s chief performance engineer Jock Clear explained the team’s approach.
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