copperdrifter26 said:Man, you’ve really gone down a rabbit hole here... So, if the SF15 was such a masterpiece, why did it only snag three wins? If Red Bull had used a Ferrari engine, they wouldn't have won a single one—and Ferrari would be sitting right where they've been for the last five or six years. Third. Based on some of these posts, it seems like they should have just stuck to their old ways. Conservative and playing it "safe." They aren't Williams after all...
Aside from the hideous livery, this year's car is actually stunning. It's a massive step up from last year's McLaren junk that basically put all its eggs in one basket. The rear end is incredibly narrow now (to get more airflow to the diffuser), the sidepods are among the smallest on the grid—which implies great cooling—and the gearbox has been completely redesigned; it practically "floats" now (just look at the space under the gearbox housing), which also creates a huge domino effect for the rear aerodynamics. They’ve got a new nose (which might still change?), a redesigned power unit, and they've moved the MGUK and intercooler toward the center of the chassis to optimize the center of gravity.
Basically, the Italians seem to have done a killer job. It looks like they took advantage of that Haas loophole and those 24-hour wind tunnel sessions to pull off some incredibly fine and aggressive aero cuts. I'm calling it now: we'll see them trailing Mercedes by about .2 seconds in Melbourne. Mark my words.
It’s such a shame an expert like you wastes your time on some obscure forum with trolls instead of being featured in prestige magazines or on major TV networks...
What's the point of acting like your personal opinion is somehow superior to mine?
Well, let me try to level the playing field a bit:
1. The SF15 only won three times because last year's car was a total Miss World winner that grabbed 16 victories...
2. How can a machine be "wonderful" if the paint job is ugly? Does it have "inner beauty"?... It's funny how 90% of Ferrari fans—especially the die-hard ones in Italy—refuse to acknowledge anything outside of Ferrari by default...
3. What does last year's McLaren have to do with this year's Ferrari?
4. The rear end is twice as narrow as last year. That's exactly why it's going to hurt twice as much when Ferrari starts backing off or slowing down due to overheating...
5. If the Ferrari is "floating," is it a bird or a plane?... What "floating"? Honestly, sounds like you might have indulged in a little too much greenery today...
6. Why would they bother changing the nose again if the lead designer, Sergio Costa, says the car has been worked on for nearly a full year? I guess they finally hit some data in the wind tunnel that gives an edge to the "nose guys"...
7. All this just confirms my point: Ferrari has undergone a total overhaul compared to last year!
8. The gap to Mercedes will be more than a second... Mercedes has spent three years straight just fine-tuning, while Ferrari spends eight years doing radical concept shifts every single season...
9. By race four or five, the talk will already start about how they need to focus on the 2017 car...
