Ferrari has suggested that this weekend's Hungarian GP may be even more of a challenge when it comes to car temperatures.
Ferrari has suggested that this weekend's Hungarian GP may be even more of a challenge when it comes to car temperatures.
Before the French GP, Ferrari revealed the measures it had taken to deal with the "real challenge" of high air and track temperatures.
At the Hungaroring, where the heat is also expected to be intense early in the weekend, the Scuderia reckons it could be even more complicated.
Diego Ioverno, Ferrari's head of vehicle operations, explained that this is due to the nature of the Budapest circuit.
"From a temperature point of view, Hungaroring is potentially more difficult than France," he commented.
"There are far fewer straights where components such as the radiators for the power unit, the gearbox oil, the brakes and other parts requiring cooling can benefit from as much airflow as possible."
"While it is true that it is not a track where a high power per lap is required, so there is less energy to dissipate, it is still something that cannot be taken for granted."
Ioverno added that there will be many checks during Friday's free practice sessions in order to ensure the correct cooling measures.
"It will be important to choose the proper cooling levels for reliability and performance after Friday, when we will check the correlation between the actual data and the simulations that, as always are used in preparation for each event."
"Managing the heating of the tires in the high temperature will also be very important," Ioverno finished.