Ferrari is set to use its development tokens on carrying out a major redesign of the rear-e🌄nd of its SF1000 for the 2021 Formula 1 season.

Th⛎e Scuderia is currently enduring one of its most challenging seasons in F1 having been forced to take a “significant change of direction in terms of development” after discovering flaws with its car design during a disappointing pre-season.

Having slipped bꦚack into the midfield pack, Ferrari has been rapidly upgrading its SF1000 in a bid to recover back up the order and introduced a two-part update package across the last two rounds in Russi♍a and Germany.

After sܫeeing “signs of progress” at the Eifel Grand Prix, Ferrari will bring further updates to this weekend’s Portuguese Grand Prix as it bids to claw performance back on its car that it will carry over into next season.

Speaking in an interview with Italian publication Autosprint, Ferrari’s head of chassis engineering Simone R▨esta confirmed the team💦 will be focusing its permitted development on the rear-end of its car for 2021.

"We will redo the rear of the car," Resta said.

"We think that this is the area that will allow more room for development between chassis and aerodynamics for 202𝄹1.

"Furthermore, the rear of the car will be affected by regulatory changes that the FIA are introducing to reduce the aerodynꩲamic load in order to limit the stress on the tyres.

"As a result of these changes, all teams will lose a number of points of downforce, and it will be essential to work 💫to recover as much as possible.

"All of this makes us believe that the most important area in which to spend development tokens 😼i🧜s the rear.”

F1’s carry-over of car designs into 2021 will be managed by a token system that will see the design of certain element🌟s frozen, though there i🧸s scope to make aerodynamic improvements.

While Ferrari hopes rღevising its rear-end will ultimately help turnaround its fortunes, F1’s quest to keep costs down by restricting development is unlikely to result in a dramatic increase in competitiveness for the team, according to Resta.

"Freedom is not as total as it appears," he explained. "You can develop [the engine] freely [over the winter] but it will🦋 be frozen from the first 2021 race onwards. Then you can't touch it any more.

"The aerodynamics, even if free, are still limited in form by what [structure] is underneath. You have to consider aerodynamics like a dress: it must be worn over a body, so in a certa💝in sense the dimensions of the body affect the final shape.

"So if the noseꦡ structure remains the same, I may be able to design aℱ new front wing but my creative autonomy will still be limited.

"All these freezes and li💙mitations le𝓡ad us to think that we will find it difficult to reasonably recover in a single season the gap we have now to the leaders."