Ferrari’s Erce Tour: What went wrong in Chinese GP

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Donald Trump’s peculiar tweet has been a meme since the 2020 United States presidential election. You can imagine, given Ferrari2025 Dual disqualification from Chinese Grand Prix, that Skederia is wishing that everyone was filled with home on Saturday and flew into the house. Lewis Hamilton Won Sprint Race.

Incidents in China then got out of hand as Hamilton and Charles Lakeler A light disappointment for Grand Prix is ​​in fifth and sixth place-where Lakeler hit his team partner in the early lap, and yet Managed to be enough with a broken front wing The team ordered Hamilton to perform the past to order him. Hamilton asked to obtain a naturally fixed order that initially he swaps as a possibility, but eventually captured, although the lakeler got a little profit because Max Verustapane During the second term, he was caught and passed anyway.

The two drivers were then disqualified after the race for different reasons, such as Lakeler, Hamilton and Team’s boss Frederick Wasasur trying to reduce positivity in their various press conferences.

Both disqualifications were slam stings, in which no one could protect or mitigate Ferrari stewers but A Meya kulpaPerhaps the most harmful, others have faced similar DSQ in recent history, which has provided a lesson to Ferrari to be noted.

Lakeler, along with Alpine‘S Pierre GalliWhen his car was found slightly below the minimum weight range of 800 kg, was thrown out.

It has now been 30 years when the FIA ​​introduced the current system of minimum weight, including the driver as well as a car. Its purpose was then to reduce the damage faced by long and/or heavy drivers, although it did not work enough for several reasons.

Firstly, Michael Schumacher According to his race engineer, the last time he stood on the scales of the FIA, strangled his nose on the rules for the east-season weight-in 8kgs in the east-season weight-in 8kgs. This flaws were discontinued by presenting a post-race weight-in, but there was still an incentive for drivers to be as lighter as possible: most cars were made well weighing well, then brought to a minimum with ballast weight which could be strategically located around the car to benefit the handling balance.

Although there is now a low vigl room – so growing minimum from 595 kg in 1995, till date strong accident structures, hybrid powertrains, large wheels, and so on – most cars on the grid come down and carry ballast.

In the case of Lakeler, his car was weighed with the remains of his endplate, which was recovered from the track. At this point it was a blast on the border; Again with an additional front wing, it was really heavy.

Once two liters of fuel was drawn from the tank for testing, however, the car was found to be 799 kg.

In an official statement, the team blamed the wearing excessive tires due to Lakeler, which was on an one-stop strategy. But, even the official tire supplier of F1 predicted to be a two-stop race, in fact this strategy proved to be an outdoor as the new C2 hard compound-it turned out to be more durable than uncontrolled-aviation before this incident.

still, Racing bulls The only team for this incident was unprepared. Hamilton stopped twice and took mediums for his last term, but he had the luxury to be able to do so as he lost only one place on the track while doing so.

Last year George Russell 1.5 kg was disqualified after finishing first in Belgium for low weight, and Mercedes‘The argument was the same: he was on an one-stop strategy, Russell lost weight through sweat, and the car lost weight through wearing a plank and tires.

But in that case the swap for a single-stop strategy was an unplanned. Most of the ground clung to two stops and did not see it coming.

The F1 is a championship of fine margin and cars cannot run more heavy than necessary. But Mercedes unknowingly crossed a line at the spa last year and as later accepted, it learned from its mistakes.

Other contestants should also have learned from this clear lesson-and, given that the one-stopper was more than a possibility in Shanghai later this week, Ferrari had the opportunity to reduce the effects of wearing tires.

Hamilton’s disqualification will be equally painful because it has also happened earlier – Lewis himself, in 2023 in Austin. Lakeler was disqualified from the same race, for the reason: excessive skid pad wear.

At that time, Mercedes and Ferrari stated that they were caught by a “unique combination” of a bumpy track with sprint weekend format that reduced time to install and check the car before the race. While China was also a sprint weekend, the latest revival track was anything but bumpy.

In addition, Ferrari changed the set -up of Hamilton’s SF -25 between Sprint Race and Grand Prix qualifying. Lewis complained “In fact the car was placed on a knife”-Is these changes so contribute to their car?

Even if not, it was still a goal. Apparently, Ferrari offered no mitigation and told the steovers that it was a “real error”.

A statement by the Ferrari team said, “In relation to Lewis wearing skids, we called consumption wrong with a small margin.” “There was no intention of getting any benefit.”

Under Vasasur, Ferrari is less chaotic than the past. But China’s events show that old habits are difficult to move …