How Ferrari made a breakthrough with its F1 2023 car

The tweaks came close to helping Charles Leclerc to the grand prix pole position, but he missed out on beating Max Verstappen by 0.048s.

Even having a sniff of the top spot was a sure sign of the progress that Ferrari has made since both updating its sidepods at the Spanish Grand Prix and unlocking some critical answers about how best the SF-23 should be set up.

Indeed, it seems that insight Ferrari got from both the Spanish GP and the post-race Pirelli test has helped…