Ferrari arrived at the start of 2023 with an evolution of the 2022 car that challenged Red Bull at the start of last season but then faded away.
The SF-23 again proved promising over one lap but struggled from wild aerodynamic inconsistencies that made it suffer over a race stint, especially on hot, high-downforce circuits.
Ferrari embarked on an aggressive development project in Maranello, but while it added aerodynamic load and mitigated some of its weaknesses through a range of updates, it failed to fully get on top of its race pace issues.
Chassis chief Cardile explained the team soon found the SF-23's chassis a limiting factor of what it could achieve.
"The 2023 car has been developed in continuity with the 2022 car, trying to improve some limitations of the previous car," Cardile told select media, including Autosport.
"All in all, our goal has been achieved because the car on track behaved exactly how it has been developed.
"The problem was that soon we realised that the direction we took was not the most profitable, so we reviewed internally our targets for the aero development. The first step has been with the spring package, where we changed the floor and bodywork, followed by another step in Austria.
"But then we reached the limitations of the architecture or what we were able to do with the chassis."
Source: Autosport