The big pre-Miami story from Maranello is no longer just "upgrades are coming" — we now have specifics. Motorsport.com Italy has the technical breakdown: the headline change to the SF-26 is a modification to the front wing footplane, the structural element at the base of the wing endplate that governs how airflow is managed at the critical interface between the wing and the tarmac. It's a targeted intervention rather than a full wing redesign, but footplane geometry has meaningful downstream effects on front-end downforce generation and understeer balance — which has reportedly been one of the SF-26's persistent headaches through the first 3 rounds.

Crucially, Ferrari didn't arrive in Florida having never seen these parts move. Vasseur confirmed that some of the new aero was run at a filming day at Mugello on April 22nd — the kind of low-key track time that lets the team sanity-check a modification before attaching it to a live race weekend. Five weeks of factory work, a day in the hills of Tuscany to validate, and now Miami.

Vasseur's stated mindset going in: "approach the weekend with humility, thinking about ourselves." After three rounds of chasing Mercedes, that framing feels deliberately low-key — which is usually a good sign. When Ferrari is genuinely confident, they tend to go quiet.

There's also a quiet regulatory subplot worth filing. FIA technical chief Nikolas Tombazis acknowledged this week that the hot compression ratio checks (scheduled to begin in earnest after June 1st) could reveal that some power units were running "outside the intentions of the regulation" — even if nobody deliberately set out to cheat. Ferrari supplies Haas and the Sauber/Audi project alongside their own works cars, so how the FIA interprets those June results has multi-team implications for Maranello. One to watch.

On the lighter side: the official 2026 Ferrari Miami GP race poster landed this week, designed by Brazilian illustrator Bruno Ferreira (alias diberkato) out of São Paulo — striking work. A Hamilton-and-Leclerc "Forging the Future" promo also dropped, which is exactly the kind of content the US fanbase loves heading into race week. The tifosi are out in force and the merch is flying.