Scuderia Ferrari presented their 2022 Formula 1 race car by revealing an old-school inspired livery to celebrate the manufacturer’s 75th anniversary.
The Ferrari F1-75 was unveiled by the team at its Maranello headquarters, making it the seventh team to formally launch its new car for the upcoming season.
It’s finally here ?
Introducing our 2022 fighter, F1-75 ?#essereFerrari ? pic.twitter.com/v6Uw8YE87q
— Scuderia Ferrari (@ScuderiaFerrari) February 17, 2022
Following the exit of long-serving major sponsor Philip Morris and its Mission Winnow branding that featured on the car last year, Ferrari has switched to a red and black design for the 2022 championship.
The new livery features black front and rear wings, as well as a black Halo and black numbering on both the nose and the engine cover. The car also features a logo celebrating 75 years since the first Ferrari production car was released.
Drivers Carlos Sainz Jr. and Charles Leclerc were on hand for the launch event ahead of the season that will see both look to build on a year of momentum for Ferrari in 2021.
The team bounced back from its worst campaign in 40 years in 2020 to finish third in the constructors’ championship last year, scoring one pole position and four podiums.
The regulation change for 2022 is set to give Ferrari the chance to fight for its first world championship since 2008, having struggled to compete with Mercedes and Red Bull Racing over the past couple of years.
The livery looks beautiful and it’s a nice callback to classic 1990s Ferraris that have black wings. Kudos Scuderia!
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Ferrari unveil their 2022 challenger, the F1-75. Formula1.com provides the story.
Ferrari have unveiled their interpretation of the revolutionary technical regulations introduced for 2022 with a digital launch of the F1-75.
Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc, who finished fifth and seventh in the drivers’ standings respectively last year, will once again make up the team’s driver line-up.
The Scuderia rebounded from their worst season for 40 years with a competitive campaign in 2021 that yielded third place in the constructors’ championship.
“This is an important day for us as we launch our car, the Ferrari F1-75. I must admit that personally, I’m excited about it, as this car is a product of the effort, dedication and passion of each one of us. It’s down to the work of a group of people who have invested everything in this car, working with courage, creativity and team spirit,” said Team Principal Mattia Binotto.
“We have a good team of people here who have gone from strength to strength, investing all their skills in this project and I am proud of them. We have tackled the challenged of this project with an innovative approach, because, apart from the requirements of the completely new technical regulations, we believe that we had to take on this exercise with an open mind.”
“Yes, I’m more than ready for this season,” said Sainz. “2021 was a great year for me because I managed to learn how the team works on the inside, to adapt to a new environment, but also mainly to learn about the Ferrari brand and how everything works from here and it was a great experience for me. Now it’s time to take the team to a different level, take it to a different step, and as drivers and the team together we want more things and more success in 2022 – so let’s go and get it.”
“I really, really like it. I think I’ll love it even more if it’s fast on track but I absolutely love the look,” added Leclerc. “I think it fits perfectly. It’s a bit of a darker red. It looks a bit more aggressive but for a car like this, I think it fits perfectly.”
They switched attention early to 2022, even introducing a hybrid system late last year that was originally earmarked for its debut this season, and which performed very strongly.
Ferrari are the seventh team to reveal their 2022 challenger. World champions Mercedes will launch their season on Friday, with Alpine following suit on Monday.
The cars will hit the track in anger for the first time next week in Spain, when three days of pre-season running takes place at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
News stories:
https://the-race.com/formula-1/ferrari-unveils-2022-f1-car-with-revised-livery/
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/revealed-ferrari-radical-f1-2022-nose/8253654/
https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12474/12544271/ferrari-reveal-fierce-new-car-for-2022-formula-1-season-as-scuderia-bid-to-return-to-winning-ways
https://www.racefans.net/2022/02/17/ferrari-expect-to-fight-for-victory-at-every-race-with-brave-f1-75-binotto/
In a launch season characterised by the quite dramatic visual differences between cars, the new Ferrari F1-75 represents yet another unique way of configuring the bodywork under the new aero regulations.
Slats and scallops
The Ferrari designers have opted for a sidepod arrangement which ramps gently down in its lower regions, but which has an upward ramp where the sidepods merge into the engine cover and with a scalloped-out section in that transition. Like the Aston Martin, it has cooling slats on the sidepod top surface.
The upward profile of the upper bodywork above the sidepod strongly suggests that the radiators have been laid out almost horizontally, with the cooling tunnels sweeping upwards past the engine cam covers rather in the way of last year’s Williams.
This has given a sidepod shape which is heavily undercut at the very front beneath the small slat-like radiator inlet, but which quickly merges with a flat, slab side before then heavily undercutting once more as it merges into the coke bottle section at the rear.
Because the new regulations have taken a lot of forward sidepod area up with the floor venturi tunnels and the wheelbases have been shortened to a maximum of 3600mm (shorter than last year’s shortest car), it has led to a re-assessment of what the optimum aerodynamic solution is for the cooling architecture and therefore the sidepod and engine cover shapes. Hence the great variation between teams.
Aero challenges
The big aerodynamic challenge in this area of the car remains how to maximise the speed of the airflow into the floor (now via the tunnel inlets) and down the sides and what the most efficient trade-off is between those separate flows.
The effectiveness of the venturi tunnel shape in lowering the air pressure of the underside (and therefore increasing the downforce) will determine how strongly the airflow is pulled into those venturi inlets. The sizing and shape of those inlets is therefore crucial. The cooling arrangement has to be configured around that aerodynamic requirement.
Whereas McLaren have opted for a very bluff sidepod shape when viewed from head-on, creating a high-pressure area there which will help give a more powerful outwash away from the floor, Ferrari have used only the top leading edge to do that and instead hollowed out a big undercut area beneath. These are just different ways of making that trade-off.
Just ahead of those undercuts, Ferrari appear to have made the same ‘double tea tray’ ruse as Aston Martin, initiating the airflow into splitting into separate flows with one feeding to the venturi inlets, the other around the bodywork sides. Underneath that distinctive engine cover is an all-new power unit on which much of Ferrari’s hopes rest.
Team boss Mattia Binotto confirmed this has given a useful performance boost over the previous unit and is combined with the new energy recovery system that was introduced in the latter part of last season.
The architecture of the engine is quite different, though it is believed to retain the combined turbine/compressor turbo which, now that Alpine have switched to the split layout, makes the Ferrari unique in that respect.
Up front, the wing elements are clearly not the real ones as they have no aerofoil profile, but the nose shape can be seen to have a pronounced hollowed out section beneath which will reduce the air pressure and thereby enhance downforce. The front suspension remains pushrod and the rear pullrod.
Source: Formula1.com
‘Brave’ Ferrari are riding high on confidence as they hunt for championships. Formula1.com feature story.
Ferrari exist to go racing and win world championships. That lofty ambition has been a step too far in the last decade or so, but the Prancing Horse’s loyal fanbase can be buoyed by the confidence sweeping through the team, which launched their interpretation of the 2022 regulations with the F1-75…
Ferrari, it seems, have been ambitious and not played it safe, knowing that if they have got the new car – built to new rules – right, this is a cracking chance to catch Mercedes and Red Bull and fight at the front once more, ending years of hurt in the process.
“This is what I would call a brave Ferrari because we have interpreted the rules thinking out of the box,” said Team Principal Mattia Binotto. “We know that expectations are high and, that in recent years, the results have not lived up to what is expected of the Ferrari name.
“We went in a new direction back in 2019 and, even if there have been some difficult moments along the way, it has delivered a stronger and more unified team – and this car is the perfect expression of all our effect. Now it’s time to go up against the opposition.
“That’s the best challenge and it’s what makes our best work so enthralling. I’d like the F1-75 to be up for the fight on track at every Grand Prix, to go toe-to-toe with our rivals, aiming to be the very best. We have a responsibility to our company and to our partners. But most of all, I’d like this car to perform in such a way that our fans can once again be proud of Ferrari.”
Usually, drivers aren’t too keen to make bold predictions, especially this year when the overhaul to technical regulations means no one honestly knows what the pecking order will look like. So it’s saying something when both Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, buoyed by the efforts they’ve seen at the factory and the momentum they carry after an upturn in form for the outfit last year, exuded such confidence on launch day.
It also says a lot about their current form, both drivers heading into this year riding momentum and run of form that gives credence to Binotto’s belief that he has the best line-up on the grid.
“Ferrari’s expectations are very, very high,” said Leclerc. “What makes me confident about this year’s car I think is the work that I’ve seen in the past few months. It’s been absolutely incredible by the whole team. It’s been a long time that we’ve been working on this car now and I can see how well we’ve been working, so that gives me the confidence for the future.”
His team mate Sainz had a stunning debut season in red, scoring a podium based on pure performance that almost went unnoticed at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to finish the year a career-best fifth in the drivers’ championship. It meant, despite him having a contract for this year already in place, with an option for another season, Ferrari came back to the table already this winter keen to sign the Spaniard up for longer.
Discussions are ongoing and, while it’s not done and dusted yet, it’s believed to be only a few details that need ironing out before both sides are happy to commit. Like Leclerc, his confidence about the car’s potential is high, too.
“Our target is to be back up there and fighting for wins and see what comes next,” he said. “I think as a team, it’s where we want to get. Obviously, we have very tough competitors in F1 like Mercedes, like Red Bull, even McLaren, Alpine and Aston Martin could be in the fight this year and it’s impossible to know where we are going to be. But the target of Ferrari needs to always be to be competitive.”
The F1-75 certainly looks different to the other 2022-spec cars that have rolled out so far this season, but under the bodywork is an upgrade that could have a significant impact on their performance.
The team introduced a hybrid system initially pencilled in for 2022, last year – eight races before the end. Not only did it perform as expected and deliver a performance gain so impressive it moved them clear of rivals McLaren, but it provided evidence that the overall concept for the 2022 all-new power unit had huge potential for the future.
Nailing the engine ahead of this season is crucial as the design will be frozen until at least the end of 2025, ahead of the introduction of a new PU formula. Make a mistake, and you’ll be paying for it for years. So it’s brave that Ferrari haven’t been shy by going aggressive with their new engine design.
“Because we know that the power unit will be frozen for the next four seasons starting from race one we tried to put a lot of effort in its design,” said Binotto. “We have a new fuel with 10% ethanol, which again may be an opportunity reviewing the combustion itself.
“The power unit and the combustion engine is a big innovation for us compared to the past in terms of design – that’s something that we may say ourselves. It’s internal to the bodywork so difficult to judge. I think overall this car has a lot of innovation, starting with the combustion engine to the aero concept as well.”
The technical team will hope they’ve got the 2022 aero concept right – but if they haven’t, Binotto says they have given themselves some wiggle room under the hood, rather than trapping themselves down a dead end of development: “What we will do at the start of the season is to look at the other cars, see the concepts they have decided and adopted and certainly we will test them in the wind tunnel if there’s any different direction to our one.
“If you look at the body shape we have got, [it is] quite wide, certainly, we have not filled underbody the full space, so we have got flexibility certainly in the middle of the car, in the bodywork. It’s worth somehow the regulations have got most of the freedom.
“If you look at the regulations it’s quite [prescriptive] on the front wing, on the nose, rear wing but there’s much more flexibility around the bodywork but the way we have packaged our power unit that will leave us some freedom in the future if we do at least at the start if there are other directions that can be promising.”