Can Ferrari's all-new car challenge for 2024's F1 honours?

Only scoring one win in 2023 was a disappointment for Ferrari after it had come out of the traps fastest in 2022. With a totally revamped car that has been designed to offer a more user-friendly experience for its drivers, the red team is targeting a big year as it seeks to transition into the Lewis Hamilton era on the front foot

Published Feb 13, 2024, 1:54 PM

Resplendent in red. After last week's plethora of carbon-heavy liveries suggested a staid approach to designing around the weight limit, Aston Martin and Ferrari have kicked off the Formula 1 launch season's second week in style.

"With the SF-24 we wanted to create a completely new platform and in fact, every area of the car has been redesigned," Ferrari's technical director Enrico Cardile noted, "even if our starting point was the development direction we adopted last year and which saw us take a leap forward in terms of competitiveness in the final part of the season."

Author Jake Boxall-Legge

Jake Boxall-Legge Autosport’s Technical Editor. Having studied Automotive Engineering with Motorsport at the University of Hertfordshire, West Country-born Jake's original ambition was to design racing cars. During a year between studies in which he accidentally rekindled a love of writing, he took up a Master's in Motorsport Engineering at Oxford Brookes. Halfway through his master's year, he was offered a place on the Autosport Academy, conducting occasional freelance duties before becoming the press officer for Formula 2 and GP3 in 2018. Autosport offered him a return to the fold later that year to serve as its Technical Editor. His voice appears on a number of videos and podcasts, and can often be found writing about terrible Formula 1 cars in excruciating detail. In his spare time, Jake enjoys baking and blames his failure to make it past the Great British Bake-Off interviews on his tenuous grasp on choux pastry. His dream is to open a brunch cafe - and his willingness to make outrageous puns in inappropriate situations has earned him the contempt of his colleagues.