2014 car launch dates

[AndyL]

McLaren: Fri 24 Jan
Mercedes: Tue 28 Jan (at Jerez test)
Lotus: some time before Bahrain test (before Wed 19 Feb)

Anyone have any more?

[Tazio]

F1 correspondent Alessandro Stefanini said Ferrari's 2014 package would be run over a couple of "filming days" before to its official debut.

He said the most likely car launch date were January 23 or 25, with the latter less likely due to "superstitious" reasons.

What is so unlucky about Saturday Jan. 25? That sounds kind of lame to me.

[AndyL]

F1 correspondent Alessandro Stefanini said Ferrari's 2014 package would be run over a couple of "filming days" before to its official debut.

He said the most likely car launch date were January 23 or 25, with the latter less likely due to "superstitious" reasons.

What is so unlucky about Saturday Jan. 25? That sounds kind of lame to me.

Maybe it's the other way around, 23 having some positive association.

[Tazio]

^ May well be Andy I wonder what the reasoning is. Now I have to know.

[Bagwan]

After a moment or two of googling , I read that Enzo never ran cars on Fridays for those superstitious reasons , and I guess the 25th is a Friday .

So , it's about Fridays , not specifically the 25th .

I didn't find , however , what had the old man spooked about Fridays .

[Tazio]

Jan. 25th is a Saturday

[Bagwan]

Jan. 25th is a Saturday

Well , way to wreck that theory .
Had to go and look at a calendar , didn't you ?

Believe it or not , I did read it somewhere .

[anfield5]

^ May well be Andy I wonder what the reasoning is. Now I have to know.

I could be wrong, but I seem to recall it was because his son Alfredo (DIno) died on a Saturday, so Ferrari never liked testing or working on Saturdays.

[RS]

^ May well be Andy I wonder what the reasoning is. Now I have to know.

I could be wrong, but I seem to recall it was because his son Alfredo (DIno) died on a Saturday, so Ferrari never liked testing or working on Saturdays.

Is that why they're sh1t in qualifying then?

[AndyL]

I could be wrong, but I seem to recall it was because his son Alfredo (DIno) died on a Saturday, so Ferrari never liked testing or working on Saturdays.

If Wikipedia is correct then Dino did indeed die on a Saturday (30/6/1956) so that seems a likely explanation.