F1 Forensics

With this article we don’t want to go into the merits of the truthfulness or not of the accusations made against the Ferrari engine. The intention, however, is to clarify that, if these accusations were confirmed, the irregularity of the engine of the SF90 would be obvious. These days, articles of accusations and counter-accusations of … Read more

The troubles of the Ferrari were evident to all yesterday, with the team complaining of tyre graining hampering their pace, particularly on single lap qualifying pace. Team boss Mattia Binotto confirmed the team’s limited pace over a single lap caused by “very high wear” on their front tyres. Ferrari in the qualifying simulation was quite … Read more

Despite a couple of missed races in this season due to some personal circumstances, TJ13 returns this weekend with some predictions for the race on Sunday. As the title of the article alludes, we all need to now forget Ferrari as a serious contender for anything apart from the odd race win, if they’re lucky … Read more

Friday practice can reveal a lot about the form of any given team and free practice two says a lot about a teams race pace as teams simulate long runs on real fuel loads expected on Sunday. Today’s free practice 2 saw a split in strategy for the weekend in which we might see Red … Read more

Friday practice can reveal a lot about the form of any given team and free practice two says a lot about a teams race pace; often they simulate long runs on real fuel loads expected on Sunday. In Melbourne, the Ferrari pair were strangely absent from the front, with a rumour that slowly became accepted … Read more

Today whilst perusing the very excellent f1analisitecnica.com, the tech site with some interesting insights into Maranello, I saw they recently published an article on issues Haas had in Melbourne which might point toward Ferrari’s lack of performance. Last week we published an article from this site (copied at bottom of this page) and I encourage … Read more

Inspired by regular TJ13 commenter and occasional author @cavallinorampantef1’s comment on today’s Ferrari piece – TJ13 has done some digging into Italian technical news sources and found some interesting, albeit unverified, content and analysis on the SF90. f1analisitecnica.com has published their take on Ferrari’s apparent lack of pace in Australia, and seem to think that … Read more

Yesterday we saw the unveiling of the new black and gold liveried Haas VF-19 F1 car, replete with its new main sponsor, the unconventional Rich Energy. What is usual for F1 team livery launches is to simply bolt on the newer aero pieces mandated by a rule update onto last seasons car, but for Haas … Read more

A technical Summary of the Honda RA618H’s Power Unit development from a Japanese magazine has been published recently, and fortunately for those not fluent in Japanese, a native speaker on Reddit F1 has kindly translated the document – makes very interesting reading! The article is entitled ‘Developing the RA618H”, the Power Unit used last season … Read more

Free practice 2 today reflected a more realistic set of results for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday, with the cooler track conditions representing more closely with the evening race in two days time.   It seemed that many cars couldn’t get on well with the big kerbs at turn 20, with plenty sliding … Read more