r/scuderiaferrari • u/gronkss04 Charles Leclerc • 12d ago

Statistics Despite finishing 2nd in the constructors championship, Ferrari scored 652 points in 2024 season. This is the highest amount of points that Ferrari scored in a single season since the start of Turbo-Hybrid era in 2014

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u/kwl147 12d ago

Who was responsible for the shake? Team did extremely well to recover from the bad major upgrades that ate into the budget significantly when they took the car backwards and didn’t give any performance benefit.

That’s my major cause for optimism from this season. It’s been decades since Ferrari out developed teams around us and improved a car faster

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u/sleepysalomander 12d ago

Enrico cardille was technical director during the time of the early summer developments, and some questionable quotes about the importance of suspension surfaced around the time of the Spain upgrades. Enrico left for Aston Martin, reportedly without much resistance from Vasseur. Diego tondi was promoted to head of aerodynamics and Fred Vasseur was interim technical director in the period between the Spain updates and the crucial Monza and Singapore updates, that propelled Ferrari forward. Tondi has been great so far, and Vasseur worked as a surprisingly impressive interim leader. Now that role has been filled by Loic Serra from October this year.

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u/kwl147 12d ago

Would it be possible for the previous technical director before Enrico Cardille to have more of an input and influence over the direction of the cars development and the suspension decision than Enrico himself and he was just following the path, with the updates that followed from Monza and Singapore, more akin to his influence? There can often be time lag when it comes decision making and when things happen.

Agreed that Fred deserves a lot of credit in how we rode out the transitional period. Hopefully Serra keeps the momentum and good work going into the off season and coming years. 2026 is going to be a massive reset.

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u/sleepysalomander 11d ago

Cardille was technical director from early 2023 onwards, and was vehicle project manager from 2016 onwards. The SF-24 was a pretty big departure from the SF-23, so I’d say it was more under cardille’s influence than anyone else.

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u/kwl147 11d ago

Ah okay. I thought he joined this season. If he was around early 2023, there is a strong chance he had input into this year’s car. I wanted him to do well for us. D