Anyone managed to find any photos from today's test ?????
FERRARI FOR EVER !!!!!!!
Interesting story
https://www.planetf1.com/news/sebast...el-red-bull-2/
Not much out there.
Charles completed 130 laps n the "mule" car with the 18 inch tires.
Here's a small vid of Charles at the Jerez race track today.
https://twitter.com/GiulyDuchessa/st...91462494281728
Last edited by jgonzalesm6; 8th February 2020 at 17:43.
It's not how start but how you finish.
Vettel is definitely in a tough spot in the drivers market. His only chance is to outperform LeClerc this season. If not, he will have shown that he is not the top tier driver that his 4 WDC would indicate. No competetive team will give him their #1 slot and no 2nd tier team can afford to pay the salary he would demand. And Vettel's ego will not let him take a #2 job, or take a pay cut. I am predicting now that LeClerc will beat Vettel head to head and Vettel will retire after this season.
So 2023 started off bad, but managed to claw back some lap time come end of the year. Lets hope SF24 will give us tifosi something to smile about.
With regards to Gio, Seb was surely supposed to be ready more so than Charles for Ferrari. They gave Charles the chance in the #2 seat and he graduated to #1 with flying colors. So can fans now say Seb without his R Bull car was ,is, not Ferrari material? Where are all the points needed to beat Merc? We have a 4x WDC driving for Ferrari!!! Gio will gladly take the #2 spot and leave Charles to do all he can without team mate interference . R Bull gave Max the shot and Dan had to move on! Give Gio the chance and then decide if he's Ferrari material or not. How much worse can he do than Seb? And.... he won't be lookin for anywhere near $50 million ! All the work Gio did with Ferrari in the simulator and in engineering meetings was not a waste of time. Remember also Kimi his team mate; has a little more F-1 driving experience . Oh! And his Italian ain't that bad.
Last edited by Brembo; 8th February 2020 at 20:46.
I like your argument, Brembo, and would love to see GIO promoted for all the reasons you mention. However, without a decent showing in 2020, I don't believe that will happen, although I'd love to be proved wrong. I still support Seb but he also has to step up in 2020, of course!
Ferrari starts 2020 18-inch F1 runs as Pirelli's test plan revealed
It was the first of 25 days of dedicated running for next year's tyres, the testing of which will be shared across all 10 teams.
After fog delayed the start to the day, two-time grand prix winner Leclerc completed 130 laps at the wheel of a modified SF90 mule car.
Ferrari declined to allow the Italian tyre company to release any pictures of the car in action.
All teams have committed to building mule cars for the testing of the tyres. These will also be used at the post-season test in Abu Dhabi.
Teams will complete two days of dry running apiece, while F1's 'big three' outfits - Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull - will share five extra days of wet tyre running between them.
The schedule reflects the fact that most midfield teams have chosen to wait until the middle of the season before their 18-inch tests, in order to get through the busy opening half of 2019 without the distraction of preparing and running their mule cars.
Some teams have chosen to do their two days back-to-back, while others - notably Mercedes and Ferrari - have preferred to split their dry running across different venues at opposite ends of the season.
Ferrari is the only team to run an 18-inch test before the start of the season, and also has a wet day at its Fiorano test track pencilled in prior to the Australian Grand Prix.
Tests have been scheduled in the days after the Bahrain, Spanish, Austrian, British and Japanese Grands Prix, with the rest of the running focussed on Paul Ricard.
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/14...-plan-revealed
#KeepFightingMichael | #CiaoJules
I don’t hate him, dislike him is the more appropriate word
due to incompetence against a teammate that has only 2 years experience in F1 is more like it..
Face it, he was only good due to the rocketships Newey built him at red bull....at wheel to wheel racing he’s nowhere...ask mark Webber about turkey 2010 and he’ll tell you
Not to mention the money Ferrari would save if they got Gio or Richiardo instead,,,
So 2023 started off bad, but managed to claw back some lap time come end of the year. Lets hope SF24 will give us tifosi something to smile about.
So 2023 started off bad, but managed to claw back some lap time come end of the year. Lets hope SF24 will give us tifosi something to smile about.
Yes, we need both drivers, so hopefully Seb can step up his game.
hopeful the newer Ferrari f1 "F1000" car are the fastest in the grid
I do agree with you!
But!!!.....and this is a big BUT!......We really are lacking brains on the pit wall, They hold a very important role and making sure their calls are SPOT ON! i'm getting peed off about this, we're laughing stock at the mo......and pit crew need to step up their game too!........Let that sink in..........and maybe, Just maybe our drivers could pull off better results.........
Drive it like you stole it!
Bookmarks