Hail22 wrote:beelsebob wrote:heidenreich27 wrote:F1pitlane twitter
And what's their source?
http://www.imagination.com 
Lets be realistic, there is systemic cultural problems in Fiorano. Ferrari are like Mclaren of 2013, now its up to them to decide what action must be taken in order to remedy the problems they've been plagued with. (my humble opinion is they should write off 2014 and focus on 2015)
For me its Ferrari as a whole that needs to rethink and restructure itself from its deep roots right to the most flimsy of leaves to make positive change.
what you write could be useful IF the team would have the ability to improve from one year to another..
remember 2005: the team who build one of the best car of F1 history(F2004) got it all wrong for that year but by switching early on to the following car, they managed to regain their performanceand fight for the championship right to the very last race.
What i'm saying is that even the most clever people can make mistakes sometimes. After all, they are just human.
But back in the days, they had a real team to lead Ferrari to success.they were the best.
But now ?? what's would be the point to start focusing on 2015 early on, if the management and/or the people who lead the project are the same that built F14 T ??
they will just built another shitty car and start finding excuses or try to change the rules of F1( which is quite embarassing to witness)...[/quote]
Yes, Ferrari failed to build a competitive car at 2005. But according to the major rule change that came into force 2005 and the long period of dominace, it was no surprise. Changes to front wing, rear wing, diffuser and some other bodywork changes, resulted in a loss of estimated 20% or more downforce. A harder tire was introduced to complete both qualifying and the race.The last year of V10 but now it had to last for 2 race weekends.
Other teams (Renault) did 2004 like Mercedes did last year, focused early on, on the next years car.
You don´t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out why Ferrari failed then but it does not explain to the slightest extent why Ferrari fails now. So I agree, it´s a clear mistake to compare these 2 different situations and draw the same conclusion.
Ferrari hasn´t built a competitive car since 2009. But for bad or for worse, the driver genious Alonso is how strange it may sound, part of the problem. He has partially concealed the bad situation and saved Ferrari from a total disaster. With an ordinary driver, the disaster would have been bigger and more obvious to everyone. One could say that a driver like Alonso has postponed a powerfull reaction to this mess.
The problems of today are probably more of structural nature than anything else. And they seems to be blinded to it. And like a fool repeats the same words over and over again, year after year, - we are now working flat out 24/7 and trying to find more speed, but trying aint good enough.
I feel truly sorry for Alonso and to some extent for Raikkonen. The car is not only very slow, it´s also very ugly, to know that they still are behind the Red Bull but also knowing that they are hopelessly behind Mercedes!
I´m afraid that when Ferrari ultimately recovers, Alonso is long gone, what a waste for such an brilliant driver.
I just saw someone mentioned it earlier. Apologies.