Front Wings:
One thing we did notice about Ferrari in all three practice sessions was how low the front wing was. Even touching asphalt under braking in some places of the Nurburgring!
In this case again you could bring into consideration the old RedBull story on wings tests , but still feel if the height of wings and other apendages should be measured from ground level and not from the baseline/wheel centerline.
We find it interesting that Ferrari has taken so long to develop those extra elements on the front wing that Red Bull has. Mercedes has similar ones. They felt they could get enough downforce without the extra turbulence created. You'll have to control the vortex coming off the inside of that extra cascade. If the vortex goes to the wrong area it can hurt downforce production downstream.
Now taking a closer look, it seems like it should treate a fairly similar flow srtucture, but they're just pushing the cascades harder, so they need the slot gap. It's pretty cool Ferrari doesn't blindly follow everyone else's endplate design. The other top teams quit using a traditional endplate and just curl the planes down and place a vane on top. Ferrari followed everyone else on the endplateless design last year, but this year they;ve gone back to the traditional design with a full vertical endplate without the round channel underneath the end.
Diffuser and rear brake structure
This is the rear brake structure: more (1) and wider winglets in a frame (2). + Silverstone diffuser. Ferrari is not the only team to experiment on the rear brake winglets as HRT , Team Lotus , Williams and Toro Rosso.
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