Ferrari has explained its decision to stick with its own unique approach to one of the key areas of F1 car design, rather than copy Red Bull.The Italian outfit unveiled their “all-new” car, the SF-24, earlier this week as they bid for Red Bull’s championship challenge for the upcoming 2024 season.Interestingly, Ferrari continued with the rear suspension, making their car stand out against its F1 rivals who all adopted pushrod rear suspension.Mercedes also used pushrod rear suspension last season, but the German manufacturer switched to pushrod over the winter for the new campaign.Explaining Ferrari’s decision-making process, the team’s technical director Enrico Cardile revealed that his side were looking into pole position.”We’ve been testing the pushrod suspension for a couple of years,” Cardile said..
“Actually, our rear suspension is slightly different to Red Bull’s suspension in terms of upper and lower arm distribution, let alone one team.“We’ve had good flight results moving in this direction, and in moving from a pull stick to a push stick, we haven’t measured a big advantage that would justify a compromise in weight or performance..
So from there we developed our suspension keeping the same setup.He added: “The main differences compared to last year’s #039; car is at the rear, where the internal suspension is positioned differently inside the gearbox.”It is also a different concept, which, at least for we, have been an innovation because it is a different way of doing internal suspensionBoth Red Bull teams, Mercedes, McLaren, Aston Martin, Alpine, Sauber and Williams use push rod suspensionFerrari and Haas – their customer team – are the only outsiders. who prefer to pull stick- rear suspension..
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