Notes on Miami GP:

🟠Norris’ excellent drive (and some luck!) won him his first race!🏆
🔵VER understeered on Hards: constantly lost to NOR and couldn’t gap LEC on fresher tyres⚠️
⚫️HAM’s best ‘24 race👌
🟣First points for Alpine

Updated McL + Ferrari’s Imola package ➡️SPICY championship! 🔥

What made this race so good?💡
The top 3 teams had the SAME PACE!
🥇Ferrari: 1.32.28
🥈McL: 1.32.30 (+0.02s/lap)
🥉RBR: 1:32.31 (+0.03s/lap)

McL has cooked with the upgrades, and Ferrari will bring theirs in Imola!

Lando Norris was quickest despite being in Perez's traffic.

This is the teams' pecking order when, instead, only each team's quicker driver is considered:

1) McL (NOR)
2) RBR (VER) +0.07s/lap
3) Ferrari (LEC) +0.11s/lap
4) Merc (HAM) + 0.61s/lap
5) RacingBulls (TSU) +0.93s/lap

TOP SPEEDS - Miami GP Sprint + Race

Albon reached 361km/h!😳
Williams' low-load wing gave him and Sargeant excellent drag, but little downforce as well.⚠️

💡Verstappen NEVER used the DRS on the main straight in both the Sprint and the Race: 'just' 322km/h at most.

👀TRACK DOMINANCE - WEEKEND's FASTEST LAPS

The ‘ideal lap’ (laptime obtained by combining the three purple sectors) was 1:27.075, or 0.166s quicker than Verstappen’s pole!⏱
Still, 0.234s slower than last year's pole📉

Video-collab with @formulaneonf1: feedbacks are welcomed!🤩

As in China, Red Bull made the fastest pits! But how much time did the others lose to them each pit?🤔

-RacingBulls was 2nd best; then, Ferrari and Merc👌
-Aston had room for improvement
-Sauber's slow pit stops continue! Imola will bring a new wheel nut design💡

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📈Alonso gained the most places (6) in Miami GP! Unfortunately, his comeback was worth just 2 points (P9).

Norris: P5➡️P1🏆

Good recoveries by:
-TSU (P10➡️P7)
-HAM (P8➡️P6)
-OCO (P13➡️P10)

The Ferrari drivers lost 3 places in total, but still got 25 points.

Norris got P2 in China already, yet the upgrades further improved
@McLarenF1
's performance!💡

Top speed, fast/slower corners, and lap time were all closer to the pole sitter📈

The slow-speed cornering seems to be particularly improved: from a 4km/h gap to a 1km/h edge vs RedBull👌

How much did the upgrades contributed to that? Imola will tell! 👀

[Drawing by @FraF1techdesign ]

RedBull might have lost last year's aero efficiency advantage (downforce/drag) ⚠️

Ferrari lacked upgrades, yet it was 6km/h quicker than RedBull in the faster corner, matching their top speed too. Big updates incoming in Imola.💡

Little drag (and downforce) for Stroll.

Data relative to each car's fastest lap of the weekend (done in Qualifying).

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Ferrari's Imola upgrades must be worth 0.4s/lap to fight RedBull!💡

Average Gap in 2024:
0.305s/lap in Quali
0.442s/lap in Race

⚠️ A 0.4s/lap gain would be HUGE, yet RedBull will not be standing still in the meantime...

What's your prediction for the remainder of the season?🤔

Made via @JMP_software

Norris was quicker than VER even BEFORE the latter sustained floor damage!💡

NOR pushed once in clean air: 0.4s/lap quicker than VE.R🚀
He remained quicker even after VER pitted!😳

After the restart (Lap 32) the match was over, but VER had no edge even before the damage.

The factors that made or might have made Verstappen's pace worse:
- Tyre management (first part of the race);
- Floor damage (second part of the race);
- Sub-optimal setup by RedBull.

Norris' pace advantage for several laps, however, suggests that the updated McL was as quick as RBR.

Made via @JMP_software

For telemetry nerds like me, even troubleshooting your Diesel Particulate Filter can be fun!😈

Here is the Intake Absolute Pressure: the maximum should be around 255KPa (100 ambient + 155 turbocharging).

And it was! (3 in-gear accelerations shown).
As the problem was solved, the electronics were finally allowing the turbocharger to use the maximum (and correct) turbo pressure.🔥

In case you wanted to try as well: I used a simple WiFi OBD 2 scanner from Amazon, and the ‘Car Scanner’ iOS free app.

If you have some telemetry acquisition from your car share them! I'm curious.

Ferrari was confident about their 2022 cooling layout, retaining it for 2023 (with a mid-season change to the rear).

The team changed approach in '24: front overbite and (smaller) cooling louvres moved upwards.

The SF24 EVO 2 changes it again (Overbite + single cooling outlet).

The cannon exit at the end of the engine cover seems to be larger to compensate the reduced louvres area.

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Will Ferrari’s in-season updates be successful?🤔

They had fluctuating success recently:
✅Big gains:
-2019 (Nosecone cape➡️Less understeer)
-2021 (Improved ERS and efficiency)
-2023 (Improved race pace)

❌Went backwards:
-2018 (Correlation issues)
-2022 (Detuning + TD39)

📸: @FraF1techdesign