Technical Analysis

The Ferrari SF1000 marks a major milestone for the Italian team as this will be the car that races in Ferrari’s 1,000th F1 grand prix this year. With stable regulations for 2020, the SF1000 is an evolution of the SF90.

‘The regulations have remained stable so it is difficult to transform completely the car,’ says Mattia Binotto, Team Principal at Ferrari. ‘The starting point for this car was the SF90 but we have been extreme with all the concepts as much as we could. The entire project has been trying to get as much aero performance as possible certainly in terms of downforce levels, so the entire chassis, monocoque, gearbox and power unit packaging has been designed to have a very narrow body shape at the rear,’ continues Binotto. ‘The suspension has been reviewed to give us some more flexibility on the racetrack in terms of setup. The internal combustion engine architecture has been changed as well as the combustion chamber to cope with the new regulations where the oil consumption has been reduced by half. So a lot of work has been done on that car which in a way is very extreme compared to the SF90.’