But the dependence on Maranello is also a curse for the American blended family. Of course, the Haas engineers also took their technical partner as a guide when it came to the parts that they had to develop themselves. It's no coincidence that the Haas VF-23 looked similar to the Ferrari SF-23. And it shouldn't be surprising that Ferrari also had problems with tire management, but was able to get the problem under control better because there are three times as many people working on the solution. "When things go well at Ferrari, our dependence is a strength. Conversely, we inherit the weaknesses."
Haas is one of the teams that will compete in 2024 with a completely different car architecture in order to exploit the aerodynamics in a similar way to Red Bull. To achieve this, the chassis will be longer, the gearbox shorter and both will be cut like a kayak on the underside. This creates more freedom for the front Venturi channels and the diffuser in the rear. The ramp-shaped sidepods are a departure from the inwash to the downwash principle, where you can better control the extremely critical flow between the rear wheels and the floor pan. Steiner is also convinced that Ferrari will make the right move when it comes to the chassis. “They understood what went wrong and what we need to keep the tires in better condition in 2024.”
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Did the tire problem in the race have more to do with aerodynamics or mechanics?
Nico Hülkenberg: The majority is aerodynamics. In the race we try to fight with cars that have more downforce. But they inherently drive faster with less effort and stress on the tires. We have to give it our all, and you immediately enter this vicious circle in which the tire overheats, you slip even more and you can't get out of the spiral.Are you going into the race with a completely different plan?NH: It's actually like that. We often stayed out of duels as much as possible in the starting phase because the problem got worse in traffic. You would have immediately destroyed your tire and would have had your back against the wall with that strategy.Have you ever had a car with two different faces in your career?NH: I've had it before, but not as bad as this season. The 2017 Renault was pretty similar. It's always the car in connection with the tire.Haas put a lot of effort into building a B Spec car. What did it achieve?NH: Nothing.That sounds sobering.NH: Sobering and alarming. You can't hide that. We have to be honest with ourselves and admit that it doesn't meet our needs if we put so much work into converting the car and then the end result is almost the same. It's our job to do better next year.Have you at least learned enough to do better next year?NH: We have to prove that first. I can't answer that with confidence now. We probably have to position ourselves a little differently internally so that the same thing doesn't happen again.How can it be that your colleague Magnussen prefers to drive the new car, but you prefer the old one?NH: That's to some extent personal preference. The old car has more downforce in fast corners. The data also proves this. Kevin probably made the better choice in Las Vegas. We'd never driven the new package in the low-downforce configuration before, and it worked surprisingly well. In Abu Dhabi the pendulum has swung back towards old cars.Was the B spec not given enough time?NH: The upgrade was a bit out of necessity. We had a modification to the underbody in Miami, but it was nothing major. Then nothing happened for a long time. The Sunday problems got bigger and bigger. The pressure on the engineers also increased, and this resulted in this B version. Also of course because we have seen that all good cars have switched to the Red Bull philosophy, including Ferrari. It made sense to jump on this bandwagon too. We did it, but I don't think we understood it. The wind tunnel has already shown that the values are not improving. The hope was that we could get rid of these so-called "delta-to-map" problems. But there are still big discrepancies between what the wind tunnel promises and what the race track delivers.
Junaid has posted the whole interview, but he hasn't merged all tweets into one thread. If you are going to find all of them, just look for Dec 19, 2023.
“It might be hard for you to believe, but we didn’t expect it to be better,” Magnussen insisted.
“I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t hoping something unexpected would come from it. It didn’t, but that was expected.“We took a lot of learning from this. Both me and Nico got a good feeling with this concept of car and there’s some interesting things like the consistency of the front end.“And with this concept it’s got a lot less downforce, so the fact I can actually qualify not that far from him with the amount of downforce we are missing, on that package, it shows that some other parts are good.“We can work with that and hopefully take a big step next year.”
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2024 Ferrari F1 car will be "95%" new, claims Vasseur
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Will Haas be able to reverse their fortunes this year?
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