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Originally Posted by Fender150
Where the hell did all this downforce come from
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If you're talking about Ferrari's additional downforce, they have an updated front wing with two new winglets mounted on the front nosecone. They also have a revised floor. They tested these two pieces back to back with the old spec in FP1 and decided to put run them on both cars from FP2 onwards.
Ferrari has such a straight line speed advantage that fortunately they can take the hit of the added drag when adding more downforce. Despite adding these new bits for downforce, they were still about three tenths faster than Mercedes and RedBull through sector one (which has a few long straights and high speed corners).