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Ferrari B-Spec

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I read a interesting article about the new Modifications that Ferrari has made this week..

May 4 (GMM) The media-pleasers at the Barcelona test this week were McLaren and Honda's wacky wings.

But the real revolution roared out of the Ferrari garage, according to the more astute members of the press; including Germany's Sport Bild.

The magazine quoted Toro Rosso chief Franz Tost as observing: "What Ferrari is testing is basically a new car."

Most obviously, the revised F2007 - strictly not a 'b'-spec, according to team sources - features a noticeably reshaped engine cover and smaller sidepods.

The controversial under-body, meanwhile, has been totally redesigned to withstand the FIA's new flexibility tests.

But it is the engine's cooling system that is the newest, allowing Maranello based engineers to run a more aggressive bodywork setup and dominate the opening three days of the ultimately four day test.

"We are at least half a second faster than before," team racer and Bahrain GP winner Felipe Massa is quoted as admitting.

'Sport Bild' estimates that Ferrari's advantage over McLaren ahead of the Spanish grand prix may have blown out to more than one second per lap.
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m3_lover wrote:The media-pleasers at the Barcelona test this week were McLaren and Honda's wacky wings.

But the real revolution...
Didn't they notice those re-sculpted sidepods for MP4-22? :roll:
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I think they just wanted to say that Ferrari is trying to squeeze out every tenth possible and that the start of the European leg of the F1 championship is where they introduced a massive revision to the car basically a B-Spec edition
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with extended wheelbase(by 100mm) plus the zero-keel front end , SF have made drastic changes in their proven format.some say it was due to the MS-Brawn departure & the shuffle after that.even the engine cooling chimneys have been replaced by the much discussed slatted louvres...but its proven to be a winner nonetheless.
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m3_lover wrote:...a massive revision to the car basically a B-Spec edition
a few years back it would have been considered a wholly new car.
ds.raikkonen wrote:...even the engine cooling chimneys have been replaced by the much discussed slatted louvres...
It was in 248 F1 already :wink:

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I apologise, i meant 're-introduced'
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modbaraban wrote:
m3_lover wrote:...a massive revision to the car basically a B-Spec edition
a few years back it would have been considered a wholly new car.
ds.raikkonen wrote:...even the engine cooling chimneys have been replaced by the much discussed slatted louvres...
It was in 248 F1 already :wink:

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Like they used to introduce there new racers at the european leg of the F1 championship..The last couple of years they haven't done that, which might suggest that the other teams are catching up more quickly then they did before
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