Performance gains in the ground-effect era have been wild:
~3% less drag, ~12% more high-speed acceleration 😳

📍 Ferrari in Hungary quali:
2022 ➡️2025
✅-2.195s laptime‼️
✅+3km/h top speed
✅+4km/h minimum speed
✅+13km/h in Turn 11‼️

Each year, laptime improved and top speed was higher or equal, but downforce improved the most.

Ferrari cut drag while massively boosting downforce:
- Increasing the top speed from 312 to 315km/h means a ~3% reduction in drag {(312/315)^3 - 1}.
- Increasing the minimum speed in T11 from 228 to 241km/h is a ~12% increase in lateral acceleration {(241/228)^2}, or ~0.5g more!

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