F1, Ferrari: Melbourne updates to help understand SF-23 development path amid course correction

All happy families look alike; every unhappy family is instead unfortunate in its own way. For Scuderia Ferrari, everything was upside down. Brain freeze, anxieties, worries, restlessness and perplexity. This situation had been going on for some time and was pointed out by many members of the team.

Their cohabitation made no sense and people who met by chance in a bar would have shown a greater unity of purpose. This is the dream scenario erroneously exposed during the last few weeks. A harmful narrative.

Yes, because in these cases, the calm so preached by Fred Vasseur, in addition to assuming a crucial aspect, defines the current status of the Prancing Horse. Very problematic but not in total disarray. “It’s not like everything is going wrong,” – the French manager points out. Then he adds, firmly: “We have to think about the team and how to improve the situation.”

In the idea expressed through the diplomatic approach, there is room for an additional wish. Red Bull flies high, but there’s nowhere written that the Austrian side is not reachable. “It is about pushing and not overthinking if we will be able to close the gap“. This was Frederic Vasseur’s thought on the sidelines of the second round of the 2023 Formula One world championship, as pointed out by F1 expert Alessandro Arcari for funoanalisitecnica.com.

Melbourne 2023: Ferrari’s non-factual updates
On the way up the slope, the time for random chatting does not find space. However, it takes time to understand. Is it about understanding? Well yes. The Mattia Binotto old saying, however disconcerting and worn out, always finds its meaning in Ferrari. At this moment it refers to the adjustment which, once the data has been collected on the track, must be present before proceeding with the introduction of new updates.

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The next updates that we will observe at the 5.278-kilometre Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne, in fact, are designed on the basis of a car that has not worked properly. Logically, fixing through wrong feedback offers no clear hope. The improvement of the management of the SF-23 flows through misleading data, in theory, could not be effective.

Yet the updates on the Ferrari car will arrive. Fred Vasseur himself confirms this. We are talking about small “adjustments” that should improve the performance of Maranello’s latest aero-mechanical engineering work but which, taking into consideration the current technical context, could be of little significance.

Yet there is a silver lining. The effect of the changes made will in any case be studied and at the same time will provide the technicians with confirmation on the corrective design path that should be taken. After all, you learn by making mistakes. You learn and improve. This is the opportunity that the Ferrari Racing Division has every intention of taking full advantage of to fix the new operational course.