Ferrari SF16-H 2016 Car

[Nitrodaze]

The Red and White livery looks striking. the prominence of the white makes the car more distinctive from the 2015 car. The lines of the car seem more streamlined, from the top, the sweeping converging lines from the cockpit past the engine compartment reminds one of a pencil skirt the ladies wear to dazzle us guys. The rear area seem heavily comparted but the configuration of the cooling architecture of the engine has equally been laid out to improve cooling and to allow for this tight lines at the rear. It seems the nose is shorter, the wheelbase is the same as the 2015 car. In short, it looks brilliant as you would expect from Ferrari and more aerodynamically efficient than the 2015 car.

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The reconfiguration of the layout of the engine cooling would suggest that the potential of the 2015 car may have been limited by its engine heat management. There is the obvious emphasis on engine cooling in the Ferrari engine redesign. The other broad area of change is the adoption of Mercedes' variable inlet trumpets to improve fuel - air mixture tuning.

There is all indications that this Ferrari SF16H may turn out to be much quicker than the 2015 car. It would be great to see if it is quicker than the 2015 Mercedes car or as quick as the 2016 Mercedes car. Better still quicker. My gut tells me Mercedes have a fight on their hands this season.

[Rollo]

The livery kind of reminds me of the 312T from the 1975 season and onwards.

My gut tells me Mercedes have a fight on their hands this season.

+1 This.
Hopefully, Ferrari will have learnt enough from 2015 to challenge Silberpfeil.

I must plead ignorance and say that I never realised just how short the engine was in comparison to the engine cover. I suppose that it being only a V6 as opposed to the V10's from a few years ago, does make it look rather dinky.

I'd very much like to see how final drive is delivered to the wheels. Gearbox and diff assemblies are always interesting to look at.

[Storm]

Too much white on the livery. So they went from the ant-eater to the proboscis monkey like everyone else?

[Mia 01]

So far i have been pleasede with the test results. Could be they will challenge Mercedes this year.

[AndyL]

So Vettel did 200 laps or whatever on the first 2 days of testing, then Kimi gets in and suddenly it's broken Only managed 4 untimed laps this morning, fuel pickup problem apparently.

[Tazio]

The SF-16H has shown well(at least the first two days)
However I doubt they will overhaul Mercedes in 2016. I don't think we can take anything from testing times to this point. For instance on Tues. Seb did a 1.22.8 on ultra-soft tires but was matched by Perez in the FI on super-softs 1.23.650 vs 1.23.658. I hope I am wrong because I would dearly like to see Mercedes overthrown. May the Forza be with them!!

[Nitrodaze]

Ferrari is looking good at the mo. Reliability is improving but not to Mercedes levels. Pace looks promising but l hope they have more in the bag than they have shown so far. It is scary how Mercedes have not bothered to run their high speed programme in this testing window. I think we may see glimpse of the W07 pace in the first week of march. There is an air of quite ominous confidence about Mercedes. I have a feeling that they have not seen anything about Ferrari that bothers them. That said, Ferrari may not have turned up the wick yet. The next four days testing session may well be worth a closer look. Mercedes may well put Ferrari in its place or Ferrari may well take the smile from the Mercedes faces. Whatever the case, the tone for the first half of the season would be set at least.