Engineering the Diva
The W08 had been aerodynamically supreme but punishingly unpredictable, and the 2018 car carried that instability into the opening rounds. The rear tyres blistered under load, a weakness Ferrari's SF71H exploited ruthlessly.
James Allison's team answered with a radical concave rear brake drum at Singapore, pulling heat from the wheel core and transforming race pace overnight. Piece by piece, the W09 became a precision weapon.


