Ferrari reveals its 2024 Formula 1 car, the SF-24

The Italian squad is heading into the 2024 season with a way of reinvigoration following its seize over the winter of Lewis Hamilton for 2025.

That prime-profile signing is the fruits of what has been nicknamed ‘Operation Relaunch’ as Ferrari CEO John Elkann and crew principal Fred Vasseur plot the Scuderia’s route again to the entrance of the grid.

Within the SF-24, Ferrari hopes to make amends for a number of the issues that held again Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz final yr.

Whereas the crew’s 2023 automobile proved super-fast over a single lap in qualifying, it couldn’t extract wherever close to the race tempo and consistency of the benchmark Crimson Bull squad.

In the long run, the crew managed only a single victory all through the marketing campaign, due to Sainz’s success on the Singapore Grand Prix.

Ferrari hopes that the developments made to the SF-24 will assist it make good progress on this entrance and cut back the peaky-aerodynamic efficiency that was one of many key elements that overshadowed its F1 efforts all through final season.

Charles Leclerc, Carlos Sainz, Ferrari SF-24

Photograph by: Ferrari

Whereas it’s too early to guage reasonable targets for the SF-24 automobile, and delivering a Crimson Bull beater could also be an excessive amount of to anticipate, Ferrari has enthusiasm concerning the steps which were made and the plans that can carry it into the Hamilton period.

That a lot was proved on the eve of the Ferrari launch when Elkann took the weird method of heading to the F1 manufacturing unit to witness the ending touches being made to the stickers of the brand new SF-24.

It signalled that F1 may be very a lot near Elkann’s coronary heart now and that he’s paying detailed consideration to the grand prix operation.

Optimism inside Maranello is about to develop inside the subsequent weeks with the rumoured arrival of round 20 new personnel introduced in to assist the squad make the steps it feels are wanted to push in direction of the entrance.

Ferrari SF-24

Photograph by: Ferrari