Calm down guys, those tests are all planned ahead. Ferrari had two of them, one with slicks and one with wet tyres. https://www.racefans.net/2019/02/21/...ting-schedule/
Yes, we tested too as well as Renault for the 18” tires. Yet I have no doubt in my mind that Mercedes is being dealt exclusive information from Pirelli. The way they manage those mediums and come alive on race-pace is unbelievable, to good to be true. Trust me when I say Merc has a handle on the tire specs for next season...
~FORZA FERRARI~
Merc handles them well, but lets not forget that we handled our tires better in 2017 and 2018 (quali only). In general, they have tons of DF and great suspension and I think thats the difference.
Montoya: Vettel F1 2019 issues more likely technical than mentality
Sebastian Vettel's troubles this year are more likely to be a "technical" problem than an issue with the four-time Formula 1 world champion's mentality, reckons Juan Pablo Montoya.
Vettel is on a barren streak in F1 and is without a win since the 2018 Belgian Grand Prix, while his new Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc has now won back-to-back races in Belgium and Italy.
Leclerc's victory in Ferrari's home race triggered raucous celebrations at Monza, where Vettel spun out of fourth early on and edged himself close to a race ban for rejoining the track in a "dangerous" way.
The mistake was the latest in a run of errors from Vettel stretching back to his crash from the lead of the 2018 German GP, but seven-time F1 race winner Montoya believes the blame may not lie with Vettel.
"I think he doesn't like something in the car or this year's tyres and Leclerc is able to better adapt," Montoya told Autosport.
"Vettel has to suffer to go as quick as the other guy. Because he has to suffer and he is not comfortable, he makes mistakes.
"When you're not happy with the car and you push, mistakes happen.
"I don't think it's a mental thing. It is more a technical one.
"It's about understanding, having someone on your side who's able to find what's going on."
Leclerc has generally found Ferrari's SF90 more compliant, whereas Vettel has often complained this year of not having the right balance in his car.
Montoya compared the situation with his two-year spell with McLaren in 2005 and '06, when different driving characteristics even led the team to develop a different front suspension for his car in order to better suit his style.
He said he "had to change they way I braked the car and it started doing very different things to what I was used to", and suspects it might be more effective for something fundamental to change on the car than for Vettel to attempt to adapt around his issues.
"Changing they way you drive is very complicated," said Montoya.
"If you change the way you drive the car you can still be quick, but probably not as quick as you used to be.
"He will have to adapt to a certain extent, but learning to be quick in a different way is very difficult.
"It's better to adapt the car to your driving than your style to someone else's."
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Vettel has a contract with Ferrari that runs to the end of 2020 but his struggles have led to speculation he could try to end that stint early.
However, Montoya believes Vettel can still recover, "if he wants to".
"He's going to have to get his head down with the team and work harder than he ever has," said Montoya.
"The only way is working harder, doing something different to what he's doing now.
"He must be used to working in a certain way, but right now it's not working out for him."
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/14...-not-mentality
Reminds me of Kimi at the end(s). Just doesn’t seem to have his heart in it, TBH.
Hope to be proven wrong
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He has his heart in it. He wants to beat his team mate, like Kimi did, but he cant. Thats why Kimi fought in Monza and Monaco, he just couldnt get Seb more frequently. Charles can...
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/p...range/4543550/
So Pirelli moved Mercs secret tire tests indoors now so now one would find out? LOL. Sarcastic obviously, but I wouldn’t put it past Merc-Pirelli. lol
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F1 is still discussing three possible qualifying races for 2020. The teams are generally in favour of this idea. There are four tracks to choose from. Monza is one of them. But Ferrari has something against that. Ferrari wants a normal quali in Monza!
via #AMuS
With Ferrari's veto, it wouldn't happen at Monza.
I'd be curious which three though.
Baku, Spa and Suzuka?
Personally, I'd rather see a one-lap session for Q3 to avoid stacking up. Or, there's a separate qualifying session held on Saturday morning giving 3-2-1 championship points and an official pole in the stats for the winner if qualifying races are what's going to happen for the future.
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Symonds denies 2021 cars to be 6 seconds slower
http://www.gptoday.com/full_story/vi...econds_slower/
Still meaning they will be slower than the last years cars, but maybe not 6 seconds.The FIA's Pat Symonds denies that.
"It will certainly be less than that," he said.
Probably more in tune with what they will end up with when they maximize the performance but once the PU/engine is dumbed down, heavier cars overall and even lesser aero then everything might offset at three seconds. WEC will then be faster than F1 in 2021. F1 will not be the pinnacle of racing anymore. We should saviour F1 this season and the next because it's an end of an era.However, it is rumoured that Sergey Sirotkin was three seconds off the normal pace with Pirelli's 18-inch tyres at the recent Paul Ricard test with Renault.
Also, I'm clearly more in favour of teams sharing some of their designs with other teams (like a pool) rather than the same standard parts for everyone. But anyway, you can't get away from the fact that F1 won't be the pinnacle of racing.
Pretty sure WEC was over 10 seconds slower than F1 at Silverstone, so not sure how you say they will now be quicker?
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To be honest I think the pinnacle of racing is when drivers have to work really hard for their laptime, it increases differences between the would-be stars and the others. IndyCar runs at 1998 F1 laptimes if you look at a straight comparison of their times around Austin, and I think that's when F1 was at its very best. I doubt F1 will ever move to be 10 seconds slower than today through a complete absence of downforce, but I'd love to see it. So long as the straightline speed is there it's still F1. The 2013 cars were rather farcial, no top speed and a ton of downforce, topping out at like 307 kph at the end of Hangar Straight. At least these cars have the top speed.
The 2001 cars and their laptimes could be a good reference. The pole in Melbourne that year was 1.26, this year 1.20, in 1998 1.30. Having the latter might be too much for people to accept, but I fail to see the problem of a 1.26 poletime at Melbourne again.
I was thinking about the Porsche's 919 Hybrid LMP1 (modified, yes, but still) lap record around Spa in early 2018 with a 1.41.770. It was over half a second quicker than Lewis' pole in 2017. But then Seb beat that in Q2 last year with 1.41.501. This year the cars were roughly a second slower but on different compounds to last year, so it offsets (thereabout). The thing is F1 cars will never come close to these times in 2021 on 18 inch rims because of the limited sidewalls so WEC might get that record back.
"If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari" - Gilles Villeneuve
"If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari" - Gilles Villeneuve
"If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari" - Gilles Villeneuve
Ferrari to build new F1 simulator
Andrew Maitland
September 26, 2019
Ferrari has decided to build a brand new F1 simulator at Maranello.
Because it resembles the eight-legged arachnid, Ferrari’s current EUR 5 million simulator – powered by ten interlinked computers – is nicknamed ‘The Spider’.
But after a decade, the simulator is soon to be retired, according to Spain’s Marca.
The apparent reason for that is the forthcoming $175 million annual budget caps, set to debut in 2021.
Ferrari reportedly wants to build a new multimillion dollar simulator before the expenditure will count towards its capped budget.
https://grandpx.news/ferrari-to-build-new-f1-simulator/
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Surely the $175 million do not count towards salaries? Only technical development. Top teams still need the ability to have the best personel, after all. Otherwise watch tricks like Shell and Philip Morris officially paying our drivers' salaries becoming a point of controversy even though Toto would 110 % do the same, the arch-hypocrite.
There will be an additional tyre test (2020 tyres) in October in Barcelona. Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull will drive one day each.
Ferrari confirms that it will be Vettel for them.
Mclaren to return to Mercedes engines in 2021:
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/14...-again-in-2021
That's good news for them, not so good for us I suppose. With Mercedes engines and Norris on board they have all the ingredients to become again a top team and challenge for championships.
Amazing how Mc Laren went from Honda to Renault and R Bull took on Honda. R Bull for sure has no complaints.
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