🗣️'You talk to teams that dropped back, and there is a real mystery to unravelling all of it.' Ferrari says it is still understanding why its performances have fluctuated so much in F1 2022 ⬇️
– despite both tracks requiring low downforce and good aero efficiency.
“You talk to teams that are finding really good performance at a race, and you talk to teams that dropped back, and there is a real mystery to unravelling all of it. “Honestly, we don’t know all the answers, and we still don’t understand exactly what went on in Spa,” he said. “We have some ideas, and we’ve obviously acted on those.“We’ve come to Monza, a similarly low downforce circuit like Spa, though different, and we feel that it looks like we’ve understood some of what went on at Spa.
Clear does not think that the new generation of ground effect cars are especially tricky to understand, but he believes the fact that the rules are in their infancy means teams have a long way to go before they can understand them fully.“There’s always going to be a steep learning curve with a new development or a new set of rules, and everyone is on that steep learning curve.