Unless All cars were given the same check after the race they will have a hell of a time in court. Its like weighting the winning soccer team after the match and saying 2 players are just over the weight limit. Then giving the win to the losing team without weighing them. Discrimination, match fitting the list goes on... The cars were checked before the start of the race case closed. I do wonder if its to look at what the Winners have done to there cars to have an edge over the other. to ban or change rules to close up the grid more. either way unacceptable
I had 2 screens open this was meant to go in the WEC Le Mans 2023 thread. It's to do with the post WEC Le Man BullSh@t that is going on. I tried to del it here but it wouldn't let me sorry for the confusion.
Seems this week will be the one for the VIP clients to admire the new baby. Meaning next week everyone should be able to have a first glance at press media release. Honestly, considering it's a VS, major focus will be on aestehtical design evolution driven by aerodynamic efficiency improvement and to finally discover if Ferrari decided to move up th egame significantly on the downforce level @200-250kph. SF90 and 488Pista have basically same value of 390 kg @250 kph, competitors have reached 600-800 kg@250 kph on road legal cars, even more on special versions. GT3RS is throwing 409 kg @200kph and 560 kg@285 kph, next GT2RS will have even more, and that's how you set new Nordschleife lap records. LaFerrari achieved 360 kg @200 kph, time to rise those values now., hope to see SF90 VS making 550-600 kg @250kph, shouldn't be too hard, as power is not the focus here, but aero is. Next Ferrary Hypercar will hopefully reach 800 kg @250 kph too.
The leaked photo's already give a pretty good answer to most of this. actual numbers to come of course
Agreed, we know it will be a step up from aero perspective, still, harder is to determine the magnitude of such improvement, the new wing seems more efficient but less downforce producing compared to GT3RS, but we know Ferrari's magic is usually in underbody, can't wait to look at finished product and technical data. Most anticipated Fcar before raw V6 and Hypercar hybridV6
Just on time for the summer solstice A name fitting Le Mans victory / anniversary seems just suitable
That would be opportunistic but I guess the chances are high. A candy very hard to refuse. I still think they might not go with LM or, if they do, I'm sure all this time they had an A-plan in case Le Mans went wrong.
Maybe Ferrari AF100 Le Mans? Or Ferrari 100LM? Would be good options to honor the victory in Le Mans. The number 100 would be suitable, as while it is the centenary of the Le Mans race, it is slightly larger than the number 90 of the SF90. However, it would sound a little strange for the 'normal' model to refer to a Scuderia F1 car, and the VS of that same car to refer to Le Mans, which has nothing to do with F1. It would be more coherent to honor the Le Mans victory with the future non-hybrid V6, or with the 296 VS. Even because the 499p carries the V6.
Yeah, can sound opportunistic, but they could have also released the vehicle in advance of Le Mans 2023 race, as in early plans, they choose to wait for the race to happen, now, after the victory, it's just a too attractive name not to use it, the alternative plan would be to just recall the race annyversary instead of the victory, keeping it more neutral. SF90 Imola would also not be bad, but there's already Pagani with same name, while at Daytona 296 GT3 had terrible bop. Plus, there's currently nothing to brag about latest F1 entries, so Le Mans just seems the most appropriate, unless they go with SF90 Corsa/Nurburgring/Nordschleife/Racing
True, but the problem is F1 status is so depressing that referring Le Mans and GT racing seems the only possibility to refer to competitions in a good way. It's true that 24 hours Nurb and LM have been won with V6, while SF90 is V8, but they need to put a catchy name.
Completely agree, as the only relationship with SF90 F1 was being both hybrid, no V6, no real high downforce, car focused on traction and power, no resemblenace to a road legal F1, it was indeed a very weird name, maybe given while F1 WC ws still a hope. Whatever name will come, it will be more suitable than SF90 Stradale
Both the SF90 F1 car and the Stradale have about 1000 HP, so I guess that's the connection. Regarding the name of the new version, I believe that the SF90 part will remain. It will be interesting to see what will supplement it.
Seems thread is very silent for a project approachin official presentation. Any preference/guess on the name from your side? I also assume Fiorano marketing laptime between 1.18.5-1.19, maybe 1.18.0, but seem more difficult
Not using the SF90 part would be ground-breaking even for Ferrari (known for little nomenclature constraints or bending its own rules at convenience). SF90 LM seems the safest? guess right now. I still hope for something smarter.
It's beyond my understanding how this is first Ferrari model which is getting ghosted in the thread the more we approach revela date, F12 TDF and 488 Pista had so much more interesting discussion here, but recently I see enthusiastic communication is dropping down and lacking.
I can think of two factors: (1) there is an event coming up this weekend - there will probabaly be a flurry of news and activity as a result of that. (2) most of what is known or rumored to be true has been said in this thread somewhere. I am sure that once it's out and about and people are getting to review the car, it will become much more lively.
