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Ferrari have reportedly made another key appointment this year as the team managed to sign Dirk De Beer, Lotus' current head of aerodynamics. He is expected to begin work at the end of the year.
well, when you look at it and see that every time when team,driver or mechanical issue didn't ruin their race, Ferrari fought for victory and won 2 out of 3. I will not count Monaco cause Fernando and ferrari couldn't use their own strategy, they were forced to follow mercedes pace. so it doesn't look so bad.max_speed wrote:does anyone agree that driver's title chances looks slim again for this year ?. i know tht team hasn't been on the fairer side of luck but still we lack outright pace to redbull and mercedes and somehow redbull has not made any big mistakes yet.. 30 points difference with lotus and mercedes also in mix , looks too much for ferrari to overcome.
i hope i may get proven wrong at end of the year but practicality demands for this conclusion , as of now.
From my point of view, albeit meaning absolutely zero for everyone else, is that Ferrari kept their current F1 team, Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro, away from the Pirelli test. The only thing that was Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro was the livery on the car. Everything was their Clienti Corse group which you and i could be part of if we first had an old F1 car and secondly, but most importantly, have bazillions of dollars/Euro/Pounds.shelly wrote:It depends by the point of view
Personnel: does not make any difference in these tests
Car: 2011 car is well known - it is a valid test rig for learning tires- slight difference to 2013
Data logged by team: who knows?
Test session paid by: I did not know about that, could be a difference
Driver: De la Rosa is ferrari sim driver, is 1st choice for this type of test. If merc had had atester like DLR, they would have probably used him. But as for other above points, we do not really know who was driving for merc or ferrari
So really in my view merc and ferrari secret tyre tests are very similar; but there are also many missing informations,so maybe my judgement is biased (e.g. maybe I overestimate relevance of 2011ish car for tyres understanding on 2013 car)
PS also notice the difference in official ferrari media coverage between the barcelona test and Kobayashi fiorano test (with a 2010 car painted in this year livery)
already discussed here... http://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewto ... =1&t=15107max_speed wrote:how much truth into this ????
http://www.gptoday.com/full_story/view/ ... i_falters/
i think it may be true upto an extent...
If it's the current engine then it's severely rev limited. It's revving to somewhere around 14-15krpm, not 18k.stefan_ wrote:I think that is the current engine we are hearing.
