ringo wrote: ↑31 Jul 2022, 18:10
pipoloko wrote: ↑31 Jul 2022, 18:06
for Those that says that Binotto is wrong
I would say >>> write to Elkan and offer your services!!!!!
the problems is not Binotto
the car is not enough quick in cold weather !!!! that is a design problem !!!!
do you understand the influence of temperature in racing cars?
do you understand that HAM got the best lap on the same (older red) tires as LEC
please stop blaming the team if you are technical guys!!!
the only critic in my opinion is that RB and MB look have done better improvements after half a season while Ferrari now is behind
True. the hard tyre decsion made things look worse than they are.
From qualifying it was obvious redbull were the faster car here. But that hard tyre plan was salt in the wounds.
Ferrari should noticed the Alpines. They believed too much in their downforce on their car being able to work the tyre.
The hard tyre choice indeed made things look worse than they really are. Ferrari had the fastest car for several races now. They also clearly had the fastest car on Friday, and they dominated the longruns. As most of the experts( like Marc Surer, Ralf Schumacher, Norbert Haug, Peter Windsor etc.) i would say Ferrari has clearly the fastest car, and also had it in Hungary. Also in terms of developement - RB definetely has not done better improvements. If we remember the beginning of the season - Ferrari was the fastest car, then Red Bull brought two major updates. They were faster than Ferrari. But in Barcelona Ferrari brought their update and they have the fastest car since Barcelona. So - RB and Mercedes did not bring better improvements. F1.TV and Formula1.com just did an analysis about that and Mercedes gained 0.15 secs on Ferrari since the first race...thats not really a lot, especially since it much easier to make such a horrible car, like the W14 has been at the beginning of the season, faster.
I also do not think its any design issue or relying too much on downforce. Like every team says - the 2022 Pirellis are extremely sensitive and every team has issues. One more, one less and track dependant. Also the teams still do not completely understand the new cars. So - its very easy to make mistakes in terms of set-up when conditions are "extraordinary". The fluctuations in performance of some teams clearly shows this(Mercedes, McLaren are the best examples).
It was just madness to use all medium tyres and only leave one set for pitstops and take the risk to use a tyre never used before that weekend, with no data available. Especially since it is well known since Imola that the F1-75 does not make good use of the tyres when temperatures are low. And that says everything about Ferraris strategy departement and on track management. It would have happened with a Ross Brawn there that a tyre that was not used would have been used in the race. Race Strategy is more intuition than planed. Ferrari has to reorganise all this and one person has to be responsible, like Ross was in the past.
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