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Ferrari is breaking all records. But the negatives. The fall of Red does not stop. Spa-Francorchamps was expected to mark the point of no return, but evidently the barrel has not yet been scraped. In the last two GPs the SF1000 did not score and in the Constructors’ World Championship it fell to sixth place, also surpassed by Racing Point, which achieved a podium with Lance Stroll and a point also with Sergio Pérez.
The Ferraris were forced to withdraw: Sebastian Vettel due to a problem with the rear brakes that forced the German to brake on the sixth lap, while Charles Leclerc paid for excessive reliance on a Red “traitor” who knocked him down in full acceleration phase when he had already released the parabolic rope on lap 25.
Two different problems with the same result: zero points. Vettel’s car-grabbing sequence is impressive. The German is also unlucky: he remedies one scare a day. At the hit between the two Lesmo curves on Friday, there is the fear of having run out of brakes in the First Variation: at the only point on the track where there was a very long escape route.
“Today’s double withdrawal is the worst conclusion of a very difficult weekend – explained Mattia Binotto -. After Belgium we knew that we would be in big trouble here too and it was, as we saw yesterday in qualifying, but not seeing the checkered flag with either car hurts ”.
“It is even more regrettable that one of the two recalls, Sebastian’s, was caused by a problem with the reliability of the car: situations like this, in this case a breakdown of the brake system, should not happen. It is a very tough season but it is in difficulties where we become stronger ”.
The team manager overlooks it, but Vettel has inverted the Styrofoam cubes in the First Variation escape route without being able to follow the planned switchbacks. The German had a serious problem in the left rear corner. Before the Parabolica stopped, a piece of carbon had been seen moving away from the rear.
Most likely, a part of the basket that covered the brake system came off and began to crawl up the rim, causing overheating that literally burned out the rear brakes, causing the SF1000 to subsequently pop out at the end of the race. final stretch.
Vettel managed to take the Red to the pits, while tongues of fire came out of the left rear wheel, highlighting the severity of the damage that led to the final stop. The entire brake system has been disassembled and will be sent to Brembo, who will carry out tests on its dynamic bench to study the causes that may have put the system in crisis.
Telemetry pointed out that the rear wheel under examination had much higher temperatures than normal, a sign that something had happened: in the next few days the tests should give full answers about what may have happened to the Red.
Charles Leclerc, on the other hand, had risen to an unexpected fourth place thanks to prodigious overtaking and a cunning tactic: the Monegasque got used to driving over the limit of his car, trying to achieve what the SF1000 cannot. . The result is a terrifying explosion at a point on the track where no one ever leaves.
Leclerc planted himself in the outer fenders with the nose and left side of the car at an estimated speed of around 220 km / h, after a sudden oversteer that the young driver was unable to resume due to reduced downforce.
The boy was carried away by the enthusiasm “sniffing” the possibility of capturing a result that would cancel out the negative vein. Instead, you’ve fixed a serious bug that will undoubtedly take away some confidence from this treacherous SF1000.
Charles was sure to get carried away, but his Ferrari went crazy, just like Sebastian Vettel did on Friday between the two Lesmo corners, another point where it’s rare to crash when cars are accelerating. And so doubts that the hydraulic rear suspension won’t respond to the height changes dictated by the Rake’s tuning are more than suspicion.
In short, no matter where you look, this Ferrari accumulates problems and breaks. This is clearly the litmus test of something not working properly in the Racing Department. It is one thing for pilots to make a fool of themselves with the wrong SF1000 and another thing is that they are at risk of bad hits because something is not working properly or gives way.
Mugello arrives next week. Ferrari will celebrate its GP 1000 at its local track and it will be reasonable to expect something special for a historic day. The track will be more favorable for the Reds and the Scuderia had a chance to test after the lockout with a 2018 car, so they will have a small advantage to assert. As Laurent Mekies says, we have to turn the page. Let’s hope the French sports director is right …
