Ferrari SF90
Ferrari revealed their highly anticipated 2019 challenger – the SF90 – that they are hoping will take the fight to Mercedes this season. The team has gone through another era of change, with the departure of Maurizio Arrivabene making way for the new Team Principal, Mattia Binotto, formerly Ferrari’s Chief Technical Officer. Add to this, the swapping of seats between the experienced Kimi Raikkonen and F1’s new young gun Charles Leclerc, and it appears that Ferrari are pulling out all the stops to beat Mercedes. But as we’ve seen in the past with the Italian team, change does not always trump consistency.
Ferrari only released high res renderings of the SF90, so although we cannot accurately analyse the details, we can get an understanding of the general design philosophy of the car.  The front wing features the regulated 5 closed main elements, with all the additional furniture on the outboard portion of the wing removed. The endplates are much more simplified and the rendering suggest that these are also curved. The SF90’s nose is of very similar shape to that of last year, with the tiny inlet at the front. The slot gaps along the side of the nose, highlighted in blue, seem to have remained as well as the turning vanes rearwards of the front wing. It will be interesting to see whether the front wing on the real car will include so many of the same features as last year, considering that the aerodynamic philosophy of the...