Inside aero problems that will place the recent behind the F1 field

Common caveweges are applied when it came to the pre -sexual testing speed of Has – or so it seemed at that time. After this, after spending last year’s Formula 1 Test in Bahrain, did nothing except walking on full fuel load to eliminate his greedy line with tires, Has rock in the initial race with a good level speed and made himself a slave in midfield battle in the sixth place in the championship.

It was assumed that the same came to play this year. At any point the car never woke up from under boards; Estaban Okon And Oliver bearman It was logged into the lap with intimacy with the time taken for three days that when the fuel was taken out in Australia, the performance would come.

Instead, it has not acted like this – and the lack of performance a week earlier on Friday blinded the team. The principal of the team Ayo Komatsu believes that when the car made his first lap around the Melbourne Circuit, something broke, and it was clearly disappointed that nothing was physically wrong with it.

Aerodynamically, however, there are some problems with the VF -25. Komatsu quoted the main weakness as being in high-speed corners, which was not exposed in Bahrain, due to lack of high-load turn around the circuit. Melbourne gave the first indication to the crisis of the new car, and the team immediately turned to set-up work to reduce the situation.

“It was a great surprise,” Komatsu revealed. “We were not expecting Bahrain’s test based. Yes, the car was not right in the Bahrain test, but we were not expecting close as Melbourne. But in FP1, first in FP1, when the car went out for the first time, I felt that I had either broken or something completely out of the ballpark. Then nothing was found.

“It was very clear that the problem was in high speed, Turn 9, Turn 10, so we just worked and worked to improve those corners with low speed expenses.

“Even then our low-speed corners are fine, not great, but we had 9–10 than this issue, it is night and day. So by Q1, we managed to be 9 more or more respectable. It is really fine.

For a few weeks, if there are no months, the team’s bases will have more than the hus -seminal medical drama house – it has a list of symptoms, and now will have to expose your car to a series of painful tests to diagnose the underlying cause. Komatsu has followed the notion of a quick reform, but has also considered that the team will only accept their fate and turn their resources directly to 2026. They believe that something is still to fight, and the knowledge gained in this process is worth sorrow.

“We understand what the issue is,” he said. The next point is to understand which part of the car we need to modify, or in which part of the car has sensitivity to solve the issue of this performance. Next, how are we going to find a solution? Then, some of them can be a proper short -term solution, but some of them will be a recurred process, both in the CFD and wind tunnels. So you are not going to see a solution for some races. It is very serious. ,

When it comes to the technical aspect of F1, we analyze trends and quickly understand why things work. Very rarely we get complete interpretation of why some work has not been done; Engineers hide in the Nebules statement of “lack of balance” and keep the rest of the details unclear. Here is not the case, as Komatsu treated the media to participate in his Thursday season as to how the car was responding – especially in Turn 10 – and why it was not favorable for a good result in Australia.

The main issue appears to VF-25 at low riding heights. Running the car less, or “on the deck”, increases the car’s performance roof because the venuri tunnels are rarely exposed to enter the outer airflow and the acceleration of the airflow below improves suction. The problem here is that, due to the effect of suspension compression and aerodynamics, it can do it down without soaking to compensate for it. In other words, Has is suffering from a dreaded middle-oriented bounce.

“We perform on the car in winter. Then of course you work the simulator, you do simulation, but it’s fine,” says Komatsu. “But 10 was changed seriously, just exposed completely (weakness). It has also found deep compression in the middle of the corner. But again, 10 years old to turn 10 infections, it is nowhere. But it is nowhere. It is a dynamic issue. Then it is an aerodynamic issue. So at least we have understood it very much.

“But this is a combination of both aerodynamic oscillations and then our rear downfores characteristics. If you had only one of them, you can live with it. But when you supermit those problems on top of each other, basically it becomes very difficult to just drive. So much, you can’t remove it because it is not just useable.

Komatsu says that at the end of Melbourne’s Lakeside drive, the car is at least indicated that the team may detect the set-up options to help in the interim, and will throw everything in the only practice session of Shanghai to collect further data in a similar corner.

But the team owner said that the current crisis of Has was partially expected; After viewing other teams with its development in 2024 and to reverse floor designs to overcome mid-corner boom, now they believe that the American team is going to experience the same growing pain.

“I have been saying this inside for the last nine months. Even in the midst of VF-24 development, we are developing well on the car. But at some point, we are going to drive on the issue. Ferrari, MercedesRed bull, everyone is driving on this issue, of course, we will face the same issue again.

“So we have to be ready for it. So I was saying this. But then it is difficult in the sense that it is difficult to be ready for it because you do not know which system you are remembering to create this problem.

“And now this problem occurred, when you actually see steps and recurrence between VF-24 to VF-24 by the end of season VF-24, there are some clues where we started pushing some things too much to create such an issue.

“Ferrari, when he had that issue, did not have a level of understanding. And whatever weeks and months, I am sure their equipment and understanding has increased rapidly. So they are not making the same mistake this year. Unfortunately, we have to go through ourselves.

Ferrari managed to reverse the scenario when its Barcelona’s floor began to motivate the mid-conner to bounce on high-speed. Started with a new floor in Hungary, it took a few rounds to apply a fix, which eventually began tolerating the fruit in the second part of the season. HAAS will pursue its own development to reduce symptoms, responsible for more than 2025 development before switching to 2026 completely; Although Komatsu does not want to put a time limit on him, he hopes that he can run the ship through a good time to join the midfield battle in 2025.