The Ferrari thread !

Hmm, why the current Ferrari reminds the team from the mid-90's? With every passing race the parallel becomes more clear. The car is inconsistent, but mostly has good enough pace to challenge for podiums, on some circuits even for a win. Generally it ends up with getting one win per year (like Ferrari has got so far) and finishing a distant third in WCC. Even Alonso starts reminding that mercurial Alesi - seriously quick, but not always rational driver behind the wheel. The main difference is that reliability is a lot better nowadays instead of a guaranteed smoke in every second race.

Now its obvious, they have to take Kimi back.

He wont come cheap.

henners,
Please tell me that was from spluttering your tea and not from getting "over excited"

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Originally Posted by jens

Hmm, why the current Ferrari reminds the team from the mid-90's? With every passing race the parallel becomes more clear. The car is inconsistent, but mostly has good enough pace to challenge for podiums, on some circuits even for a win. Generally it ends up with getting one win per year (like Ferrari has got so far) and finishing a distant third in WCC. Even Alonso starts reminding that mercurial Alesi - seriously quick, but not always rational driver behind the wheel. The main difference is that reliability is a lot better nowadays instead of a guaranteed smoke in every second race.

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I tend to agree with you. What p...ed me off was to hear Dominicali talking about how to take care of the cluch. THE CLUCH?? That was supposed to be taken care of a 1,000 years ago. Next race is going to be the car keys:
"Well, Alonso said he left them in the garage, but I looked in there and I did not find them. We think Massa has something to do with it, but...." :(

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Originally Posted by jens

Hmm, why the current Ferrari reminds the team from the mid-90's? With every passing race the parallel becomes more clear. The car is inconsistent, but mostly has good enough pace to challenge for podiums, on some circuits even for a win. Generally it ends up with getting one win per year (like Ferrari has got so far) and finishing a distant third in WCC. Even Alonso starts reminding that mercurial Alesi - seriously quick, but not always rational driver behind the wheel. The main difference is that reliability is a lot better nowadays instead of a guaranteed smoke in every second race.

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Alonso was nearly mentally unbeatable at Renault when he won b2b WDCs.

For some reason at Ferrari Alonso has been making driving errors far too regularly and for the most part avoidable:

Bad start in Melbourne

Jump start in China

Crashing and destroying his race car during practice in Monaco

Arguably mis-handled traffic at Canada, possibly bad timing at encountering

Not giving back position to Kubica at Silverstone and incurring penalty.

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Originally Posted by wedge

Not giving back position to Kubica at Silverstone and incurring penalty.

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That was not his fault.

Ferrari were told three times by the stewards to give the position back before the drive-through, not one of those were forwarded to Alonso.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/85258

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Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali said the team did not ask Alonso to let Kubica through because it did not feel the Spaniard has gained an advantage.

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Originally Posted by Malllen

That was not his fault.

Ferrari were told three times by the stewards to give the position back before the drive-through, not one of those were forwarded to Alonso.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/85258

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You don't need to be told. He's got enough extra capacity to decide between awaiting a decision or save the bother by giving back the place and try again to overtake Kubica because Kubica blatantly had an inferior car to Alonso.

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Originally Posted by wedge

You don't need to be told. He's got enough extra capacity to decide between awaiting a decision or save the bother by giving back the place and try again to overtake Kubica because Kubica blatantly had an inferior car to Alonso.

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There's no excuse for Ferrari not telling Alonso what the stewards told them.

The onus is on the team, not the driver.

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Originally Posted by Malllen

There's no excuse for Ferrari not telling Alonso what the stewards told them.

The onus is on the team, not the driver.

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I don´t agree. I have a feeling that the Ferrari team are afraid of Alonso, afraid of his temper. He is their only hope, a tiny one.

i think the leader of Ferrari is a douche bag - bring in flavio