But their ability to be flexible at the front of the car – especially amid the restrictions of the cost cap – will be helped by clever nose solutions.
The make-up of the nose structure up and down the grid has changed for 2022, with many of the teams taking the opportunity to use a vanity panel to cover the crash structure that lies within.
As we can see in Giorgio Piola’s latest illustrations, the Ferrari F1-75 features this design quirk. The inner carbon crash structure is significantly shorter than the nose appears when the thin laminate vanity panel is fitted to it.
Currently, Ferrari’s nose, by virtue of the vanity panel, mates to the front wing’s mainplane.
But it doesn’t have to, if Ferrari can find more aerodynamic performance from a design that most of its rivals have whereby the nose is connected to the second element.
If this ends up being a route Ferrari wants to take, then the way it has designed its nose means it could make the change without needing an expensive…
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