The Ferrari thread !

IMO Kimi will lead Button in the start, but Jenson will be better in pits. Of course, in Monaco you can never know...

First podium for a red car this year! :up:

Well, Kimi messed up the start and Felipe messed up when he cut the chicane and had to let Vettel back allowing Rosberg to slip through.

Without these mistakes they could have had 2 red cars on the podium.

I'm a bit disappointed with Kimi's lack of pace after Rubens' 2nd stop, he should have been faster with a light car than Rubens with a fueled up one.

Felipe fell foul to his early mistake otherwise he wouldn't have been behind Button before his 2nd stop.

Nice job for Ferrari! Great podium for Kimi!

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Originally Posted by ioan

First podium for a red car this year! :up:

Well, Kimi messed up the start and Felipe messed up when he cut the chicane and had to let Vettel back allowing Rosberg to slip through.

Without these mistakes they could have had 2 red cars on the podium.

I'm a bit disappointed with Kimi's lack of pace after Rubens' 2nd stop, he should have been faster with a light car than Rubens with a fueled up one.

Felipe fell foul to his early mistake otherwise he wouldn't have been behind Button before his 2nd stop.

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Kimi didn't mess up the start, he had harder tires and the Brawn's were on softs and he was on the dirtier side of the track. The team messed up Kimi's second stop where he lost several seconds, he could have got Rubens, it was not the pace that was lacking. IMO drivers did a very good job but the team didn't.

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Originally Posted by DexDexter

Kimi didn't mess up the start, he had harder tires and the Brawn's were on softs and he was on the dirtier side of the track. The team messed up Kimi's second stop where he lost several seconds, he could have got Rubens, it was not the pace that was lacking. IMO drivers did a very good job but the team didn't.

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The harder tires were soft tires and they wouldn't make such a difference, so quit coming up with such excuses.

Did you see the start to the warm-up lap? Those "harder" tires worked excellent at that moment.

The start in Monaco, given the short run down to the first corner, is a question of who pushes a button (no pun intended) faster after the lights go out. If you are a tenth of a second slower than the other guy you'll lose out. It's as simple as that.

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Originally Posted by ioan

The harder tires were soft tires and they wouldn't make such a difference, so quit coming up with such excuses.

Did you see the start to the warm-up lap? Those "harder" tires worked excellent at that moment.

The start in Monaco, given the short run down to the first corner, is a question of who pushes a button (no pun intended) faster after the lights go out. If you are a tenth of a second slower than the other guy you'll lose out. It's as simple as that.

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Losing one place at the start is not messing up the start, it's racing, not a mistake, just racing.

Ferrari tactics were once again wrong, they should have started with super-soft tires like Brawn did. Also the last stint was way too long for super-softs.

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Originally Posted by DonJippo

Ferrari tactics were once again wrong, they should have started with super-soft tires like Brawn did. Also the last stint was way too long for super-softs.

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To be fair they were doing better lap times at the end than the Brawns had been at the end of their short stint on the super-softs. You could argue that it was a smart move to keep the super-softs until the track had rubbered in.

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Originally Posted by DonJippo

Ferrari tactics were once again wrong, they should have started with super-soft tires like Brawn did. Also the last stint was way too long for super-softs.

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I disagree, the Ferrari strategy was best today.
The supersoft tires were not suited to the track at the beginning and all the cars using them were having problems.
Once the track rubbered in the supersoft were doing great.

For once Ferrari made the right calls in terms of strategy.

One race has passed and now Ferrari isn't only a strong contender for P3 in WCC, but they can set their sights even for P2 and Red Bull (42,5-17 behind at the moment, but we will see, how well can RBR develop during a season). :p :