In Stefano Domenicali, we have a team boss who has proved to be a leader. - Luca diMontezemelo
Also new on the new floor & diffuser, see slots ahead of rear tyre.
There is one thing I don't get, why are they all working so hard trying to get aero gain with the exhaust when the blowing is out of the game? I know any small gain is very important in F1 but compare to last year it is far from being a 0.5s per lap kind of deal! When the guys are off throttle braking or in slow corners, there are no gases blowing anything (well it's minimal compare to last year anyway) and in straight line the last thing you want is your exhaust gases to be creating drag!!! Could someone enlighten me on that please, it might be me tho, I am a bit sleep depraved by my 3 months old baby son!!!
Edit: I know it will help in the corner exist domain when throttle in!!
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"I cannot judge what he did in his time at Renault and McLaren but I have worked with World Champions Schumacher, Villeneuve and Raikkonen and Fernando is the one who impresses me the most," said Gene.
@InsideFerrari: It's going to be a long night of work in our garage ....
"Le Rosse" meaning "The Reds" is just an affectionate name for the team and "La Rossa" an affectionate name for the car "The Red"..Italo speak . All that article really says is that on Saturday they will be testing the race package to be used in Melbourne. They also say that Ferrari and Red Bull wanted to move the test by a day to give them time to produce the new parts but that the FIA has reinterpreted the rules and disallowed with the journalist sayingmeaning, very sarcastically, "we are starting off well" in terms of FIA decisions.(cominciamo bene...)
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"Aerodynamics is for those who cannot manufacture good engines."
Does anyone know a good MercedesF1 forum? I would like to keep an eye on there as well.
Forza Ferrari
"And regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It's your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it."
"good MercedesF1" - nice oxymoron ntukza. I'm sure Raz, our resident schudas could come up with something for you
"I know that some people are saying we start with a disadvantage compared to Red Bull, McLaren or Mercedes, but we will only really see in Melbourne." - Fernando Alonso.
Because of the fog the start of test has been delayed...
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diffuser from yesterday
"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose." (Ayrton Senna)
Forza Ferrari
some not so good reading...:(
Heikki Kulta is usually well informed and trusted source...
Red Headache
1.3.2012 Heikki Kulta
If the season started now, how would Ferrari do? This question rose into my mind after the first test day in Barcelona, when Felipe Massa again drove over one hundred laps but was only eight in the result list. During the day I followed the facial expressions of the Italian journalists, and because they looked what they looked, I made the question to three experienced writers.
Alberto Antonini, Auto Sprint:
"You ask about hypothetical grid order? Probably this Ferrari should be around ninth place or lower, at best maybe fifth row."
"Why? Because they have wasted these test weeks. They are again back to square one trying to understand their car."
"When I watch the other Italian team, Toro Rosso, practising their pit stops now, Thursday, they are clearly ready for the first race. Ferrari is still way back behind them."
"It's not nice to say this, but I'm afraid that Ferrari will have a season as bad as in 2009, maybe even worse."
How about the patience of the tifosi in Italy?
"I believe it is as far streched to the limit as in Ferrari's pit box. It's starting to get to the nerves - and it's clearly visible. It's the same with us journalists."
Any light at the end of the tunnel?
"You mean wind tunnel...? Maybe there, but nowhere else. First races where you can expect anything better are at the earliest when the European season begins."
Marco Evangelisti, Corriere dello Sport:
"If we were in Australia just now, the season would start very badly for Ferrari. The truth is that til this day, the team has not understood their car. The car is completely different than any car they have made in Maranello before. It now represents English school. The details are designed in a different way and everything depends on aerodynamical solutions."
"The organisation of the team has changed as much as the construction ideology of the car. Now Maranello is like little Woking. Small units work together, whereas Ferrari has all its experience from operating as a pyramid organisation."
"This brings great difficulties to understand how to make this organisation to work efficiently and how to understand quickly the car it has built."
Evangelisti reminds that the car still has no new aero package, that will be ready only for the last two test days.
"Time is running out. It's impossible to say how fast Ferrari is or how fast it will be. They actually really started to test it only at the last afternoon of the previous test period. It's impossible to say whether it will be at all ready for the first race."
"Now, Thursday, they were working with different set ups. That's something they should have done already in the first test in Jerez."
"Where is Ferrari now? At least they are behind Red Bull, McLaren, maybe Mercedes. I'm not quite sure about Lotus because they have had their problems too."
"Our patience in Italy is really tested. No one is denying that. The tifosi have been very patient for long, but this year the patience is starting to run out. Everybody is starting to be rather sceptical. In the team everybody is clearly very nervous."
Paolo Ianieri, La Gazzetta dello Sport:
"Ferrari has spent the tests learning, learning and learning. At the moment Ferrari is behind at least Red Bull, McLaren, Mercedes, probably Lotus, even Force India. It is really bad for Ferrari that the testing is so limited."
"In Italy the mood swings with how Ferrari is doing. In the beginning it was really difficult, but when the team said they were starting to understand the car, people were a bit relieved. The tifosi are waiting. Let's wait and see, like Kimi taught them."
"If the changes help, that's good. But who knows."
I would say we all have to trust our team..
Since our car is quite new the development scope for this car is going to be huge as compared to redbull,mclaren..
above all we must remember that they are FERRARI!!!!!and they have ALONSO>>>>
so lets see how the remaining days turn out...
Alonso completed the installation lap...
any news on whether the updates named RED are fitted onto the car???
Gary Anderson, Heikki Kulta, Martin Brundle... they saying we are in trouble. It is cannot be true!
However, I'm still optimistic.
Hope We surprise and do a complete sweep in aus!!!!
I'm confident that we're much better placed than those reports suggest. The data we're collecting now is for both short term and long term purposes. Why wouldn't we spend so long collecting data on such a new car?
even if SF has a bad season, we're tifosi , right
Nando set 1.23s in 6 Lap, on soft compund, maybe a glory run again???
Still slower than Lotus.
The new Ferrari pieces arrive
pic via IvanF1
Here we go the media again throwing the baby out with the bath water!! Geez give the Ferrari guys a chance... As they mention it's a new Ferrari and thus maybe doing things a little different this year.. The car is good I believe and reliable now.. Let's not forget how the media dismissed other teams in testing and went hard in Melbourne ...
Schumacher stopped on the track
Racing is life and life is a risk - Michael schumacher
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