Ferrari’s extensive upgrade package at the F1 Spani🦹sh Grand Prix is tailored to bringing more performance as the team looks to bounce back from it🍸s woeful weekend in Canada.

Both Ferraris were knocked out in Q2 and the team came away from a ꦐmiserabl൲e Montreal weekend empty-handed, with Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz forced to retire from the race.

In a bid to bounce back, Ferrari have got their latest u🔯pgrade - comprising seven elements includ💜ing a revised floor, engine cover, diffuser and halo - ready in time to debut at the start of F1’s triple header in Spain.

Ferrari’s senior performance engineer told media including  in Ba🅘rcelona that the package is “similar” to their Imol💜a upgrade both in terms of size and expected performance gains.

“When we quantify an upgrade, we’re only talking performance, that’s what it’s all about at the end of the day,” Clear said. “We could talk some interesting numbers that the aero department 🐬🐈produce, but how much lap time it produces is always our measure.”

Asked if it represents a more incremental upgra♛de, compared to the visually-striking updates introduced at Imola, Clea🌟r replied: “Yes, I think so.

“Again, we’ve spoken in the past about how🎶 subtle some of the effects on air are, certainly at the back of the car. And ✱this was in parallel with Imola, so this isn’t a reaction to Imola if you see what I mean, this isn’t the upgrade from Imola and then we look at what it did.

“This was always a sch✤eduled upgrade that’s in parallel. So the fact we’re bringing it here, as long as it performs as we expect, and in the recent past, we’ve ha🃏d very good correlation, so we have no reason to believe it won’t.

“So as long as it performs as we expect today, aꦜgain that’s good confirmation we understand what’s going on on this car. We didn’t have to wait, and I think I mentioned this the last time we spoke, we didn’t have to wait for the Imola package and say oh OK, what did that do, now we go in this route.

“We 🌳knew what the Imola package would do, and it did what it should do. In parallel we were also looking at the next step beyond that, and that’s what y♊ou see here.”

Clear also confirmed the upgrade 🧔was brought forward due to the close competition at the 𝓡front of the F1 grid.

“It wꩵas somewhat fast-tracke🌺d,” he explained. “I’ve said before, Barcelona is a fantastic circuit to evaluate a car.

“So if you can, you’re always going to want to come to Barcelona wiꩲth a package, that’s why we do preseason here, and as a result of doing preseason, we’ve got so much experience here that it levels all of the other variables for us, and you get a good read on a package. So it’s always a good place to come.

“I think honestly, because the Imola package was a good step, I think maybe this was scheduled for later, this triple header offers you three good opportunities. “Austria and Silverstone are also very good. But yeah, we did push it forward a bit, just because it’s super close at the moment, and if you can come one race earlier, actually the gains are doubled, effecti🌱vely.

“Because it’s always a race, isn’t it? It’🀅s not just what our upgrades are doing, it’s what other people are doing. And if we can just get an upgrade one step earlier than the others, then you carry that forward a bit.”

Details of Ferrari's seven upgrades

Rear Wing - Circuit specific - Drag Range. Higher Downf🦩orce Top Rear Wing and Lower Rear Wing designs. Introduction of more loaded Top and Lower Rear Wing main and flap profiles. Allowing different modulations, this update extends the car polar in order to offer more possibilities on mid/high downforce tracks.

Coke/Engine Cover - Performance - Flow Conditioning. Increased Sidepod / Coke undercut. The new bodywork features a rewor🦩ked undercut that improv🌸es flow quality over the floor edge and towards the back of the car.

Floor Fences - Performance - Flow Conditioning. Redistributed floor fences cambe🍎r. Aim of redistributing front floor fence loading was to improve flow quality delivered to the rear floor / diffuser.

Floor Body - Performance - Flow Conditioning. Lowered front floor roof. Working in conjunction with the updated front floor fences arrangement, ꦕwith the objective of improving flow quality towards the bac🎃k of the car.

Floor Edge - Performance - Local Load. Rearward floor edge volume increased. This minor geometrical update is an optimization around the improved flow energy coming from upstream, returning local load gains whilst controlജling the vorticity release in the diffuser.

Diffuser - Performance - Local Load. Reworked diffuser / boat / keel expansion. Benefittinꦬg from tidier upstream flow structures, the diffuser expansion, together with boat and keel volumes optimization, has allowed to extract more local load gains 7 Halo Performance.