Ferrari have confirmed the departure of Pat Fry and Nikolas Tombazis from the Scuderia, amidst a reorganisation that started when new team principal Maurizio Arrivabene came in charge. Arrivabene, Managing Director of {Ferrari}’s Gestione Sportiva and Team Principal of Scuderia Ferrari, has restructured his team with a flatter structure and clear assignment of responsibilities.
I don't know if it's true or not, but to hear it told, such a division of power is exactly why Brawn left Mercedes. He wanted to be the alpha and the omega.George-Jung wrote:It could be that Marco Mattiacci will do the commercial-side and Brawn perhaps executive-director?
bhall wrote:I don't know if it's true or not, but to hear it told, such a division of power is exactly why Brawn left Mercedes. He wanted to be the alpha and the omega.George-Jung wrote:It could be that Marco Mattiacci will do the commercial-side and Brawn perhaps executive-director?
Yer, although I must confess I'll have to watch the race back because I didn't see where Raikkonen missed out. He just did one stop less as far as I saw. However, apparently he is still at the circuit tearing strips off people, which is absolutely unheard of for him.Bob Brown wrote:Interesting how at Ferrari with Alonso, the trailing driver gets first choice of pit stop strategy.
I don't know what 'far stiffer' means, but if it means less tyre compliance then Raikkonen will certainly be happy. It's the only way I can see them getting faster this season. They don't need a B spec car, they need a new one.George-Jung wrote:https://twitter.com/LorenzoDL83/status/ ... 3451836416
Yea this is what he said after the raceBob Brown wrote:Interesting how at Ferrari with Alonso, the trailing driver gets first choice of pit stop strategy.
Here is a video, can't really make out what he is sayingFrom Autosport LIVE
13:59 Kimi Raikkonen isn't happy with being jumped by Ferrari team-mate Fernando Alonso. After the race he quizzes his engineer about "who is making the calls? We seem to get second choice."
He missed out on being able to choose between their strategy options. Looks like Alonso got to choose his pit strategy first even when Kimi was leading. This is what people are saying because typically as evident in history of F1 teams the leading driver gets first pick of race/pit strategy.munudeges wrote:Yer, although I must confess I'll have to watch the race back because I didn't see where Raikkonen missed out. He just did one stop less as far as I saw. However, apparently he is still at the circuit tearing strips off people, which is absolutely unheard of for him.Bob Brown wrote:Interesting how at Ferrari with Alonso, the trailing driver gets first choice of pit stop strategy.
He's slowly but steadily getting what he wants that car to do and the signs are there when you look closely enough. As the races roll by that intra-team battle is going to be fun to watch even though it's a thousand miles away from the front.
He says "I don't know" because he actually doesn't know who made the call to let Alonso have first crack at choosing strategy.siskue2005 wrote:Yea this is what he said after the raceBob Brown wrote:Interesting how at Ferrari with Alonso, the trailing driver gets first choice of pit stop strategy.Here is a video, can't really make out what he is sayingFrom Autosport LIVE
13:59 Kimi Raikkonen isn't happy with being jumped by Ferrari team-mate Fernando Alonso. After the race he quizzes his engineer about "who is making the calls? We seem to get second choice."
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Kimi Raikkonen says he wanted to clarify the thinking behind Ferrari's strategy after losing out to team-mate Fernando Alonso in the Spanish Grand Prix.
Alonso overtook Raikkonen for sixth place in the closing stages, having caught the Finn on fresher tyres by virtue of stopping three times compared to his team-mate's two pitstops.
Earlier in the race Alonso had been able to make the first pitstop of the pair despite running behind Raikkonen on the road. Teams often give pitstop choice priority to the driver who is ahead on track.
On team radio messages from the slowing-down lap broadcast to television audiences, Raikkonen asked "who made these calls?" as he felt he was getting "second choice".
Asked by AUTOSPORT to explain the messages and whether he felt Alonso was getting priority, Raikkonen replied: "I just wanted to clear up some things."
The Finn played down the significance of the differing strategy choices and being beaten to sixth.
"Obviously there was not much between it," Raikkonen said. "We still finished far away from the others. It did not make much difference to the result."
