Ferrari In 2024: New Challenger Hits Development Milestone

Ferrari won a Grand Prix last season. That’s not all; they won an important event, one that is admired worldwide for ensuring drivers undergo rigours of a special kind.

And although one may have multiple ways of looking at that success, truth is, the Maranello-based outfit managed to eke out a win when it was quite evident that the race win department, so to speak, had the name of just one team: Red Bull.

Which perhaps explains why Carlos Sainz’s 2023 F1 triumph at Singapore amid bright sparkly lights was hyped and maybe it deserved to be that way. The rest of the teams struggled and simply, couldn’t step onto the top place on the podium.

But in no way was a solitary win enough. At the end of a long and grinding season, it was hoped that next year onwards, Ferrari would come back strong in terms of producing a car that could actually be labelled a real challenger of 2024.

For now, it seems that there is no reason to rebuke the unbridled optimism that’s evident in Italy with regard to the 2024 car.

What’s with the 2024 Ferrari car?

The above being told, the following are the lucid highlights of what a recent report published on the website Crash had to say on the car-under-works for 2024, something that is worth noting. And the first line, in itself, is something that would excite the Tifosi endlessly:

“Ferrari’s development could be worth “a tenth and a half” of a second of lap time on a track like Barcelona, a report estimates. That is based on 10kg of weight being worth approximately three tenths. The lighter 676 should also help to preserve the tyres, which was another goal for Ferrari.”

One notes that greater optimism can be found in the following, not only because it’s about Ferrari, a uniquely popular brand, but also because for the longest time Maranello has craved a real challenger, something of the likes of what was evident in the case of the SF 71H (its 2018 F1 car):

“There is quiet confidence at Maranello ahead of the F1 2024 campaign although “no one dares to make a comparison of the 676 with the SF-23”, the report states. But wind tunnel and simulator data are giving Ferrari reason to dream.”

One notes that if the 2024 Ferrari challenger is indeed, as per these reports, a power packed machine, then it might not be a terrible idea to keep the dream alive: of having a realistic chance at a world title. That is fundamentally because it has been a mighty long time since anyone sporting red racing overalls achieved that in what’s now over a decade and a half long wait.

What do you reckon?