The Ferrari thread !

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Originally Posted by jens

Umm, I would say this year's car was quite decent with the exception of some tough races (like Turkey). Overall I'd say that Ferrari had a better car than McLaren, but the Woking team had a more balanced driver line-up, which turned the WCC battle in their favour. 2010 F10 was far from mediocre (I don't think you can call second best car like that), actually I would be more concerned about McLaren's future than Ferrari's. McLaren has seemed slightly inferior to Ferrari ever since 2006 and in 2010 they were struggling with car development somewhat, especially since mid-season they were seriously stagnated.

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IMO Ferrari' major mistake was focusing way too much of the McLAren's
F-Duct neglitting other devellopment areas. Once they realized that they could have gotten more speed by developping the front wings, for example, then the car became faster. But I guess they were a little too late compared to RB.

Ferrari were not consistent enough and made some strategy errors.

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Originally Posted by N4D13

I'm amazed at how people call Alonso's first half of the season "terrible" and "full of mistakes". Here are the mistakes I think he's done over the entire season:

- Australia - Got knocked out in the start. I don't think it's a mistake but a racing incident - and it was 50-50 IMHO.
- China - jumped start - ok, 100% mistake.
- Monaco - crashed in practice. It was driver mistake all the way, but he was extremely unlucky to wreck his chassis. Other drivers have crashed heavily during practice (e.g. Hamilton in Germany) but haven't been drawn so much criticism because they could take part in quali.
- Silverstone - overtaking Kubica that way might could have been a mistake, but not giving the place back wasn't his fault.
- Belgium - crashed out in tricky conditions. Driver mistake again.

So, basically, I would only count the China jumpstart and the Belgium accident - maybe Monaco as well if you like, but I've already stated that he was extremely unfortunate there - a mistake during practice ruined his race.

Am I missing any mistake or something? In any case, I think that calling Alonso's first half of the season "terrible" is, at least, rather harsh.

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It's not just these mistakes, but in mid-season Alonso seemed to have lost a bit of his usual focus. He let both Hamilton and Button pass him relatively easy in Canada plus also Kobayashi at Valencia. A driver, who has usually been praised for being really hard to overtake (he kept Schumacher, who was lapping 2 secs per lap faster, behind him at Imola'05), was caught asleep. Among mistakes I can also recall qualifying session for the Turkish GP, where he missed Q3.

The Monaco incident has perhaps been a bit overblown indeed. Webber missed the Japanese GP qualifying in 2009 for exactly the same reason, but no-one bashed or even criticised him seriously for that - he was considered 'unlucky' instead.

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Originally Posted by jens

It's not just these mistakes, but in mid-season Alonso seemed to have lost a bit of his usual focus. He let both Hamilton and Button pass him relatively easy in Canada plus also Kobayashi at Valencia.

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He's lost it! I tell ya, he's lost it! :p

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Originally Posted by eu

Nice signiture. prettly shameless considering who started a thread about how is Schumi going to destroy Rosberg. The same clueless guy was stating somewhere else that Massa is going to beat Alonso and everyone will see just how bad he actually is. It's quite clear you know nothing about f1 and not even pure logic helps you. You just come here doing your best to start a fight with silly statements.

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What is wrong with my signature?

I have more F1 knowledge in my left testicle than you will ever have, my dear friend.

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Originally Posted by N4D13

I'm amazed at how people call Alonso's first half of the season "terrible" and "full of mistakes". Here are the mistakes I think he's done over the entire season:

- Australia - Got knocked out in the start. I don't think it's a mistake but a racing incident - and it was 50-50 IMHO.
- China - jumped start - ok, 100% mistake.
- Monaco - crashed in practice. It was driver mistake all the way, but he was extremely unlucky to wreck his chassis. Other drivers have crashed heavily during practice (e.g. Hamilton in Germany) but haven't been drawn so much criticism because they could take part in quali.
- Silverstone - overtaking Kubica that way might could have been a mistake, but not giving the place back wasn't his fault.
- Belgium - crashed out in tricky conditions. Driver mistake again.

So, basically, I would only count the China jumpstart and the Belgium accident - maybe Monaco as well if you like, but I've already stated that he was extremely unfortunate there - a mistake during practice ruined his race.

Am I missing any mistake or something? In any case, I think that calling Alonso's first half of the season "terrible" is, at least, rather harsh.

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:rotflmao:

A very unbiased review from you there. I will give you an equally unbiased review
Here are the number of races where Alonso performed badly
Bahrain
Australia
Malaysia
China
Spain
Monaco
Turkey
Silverstone
Canada
Valencia
Hungary
Spa
Monza
Singapore
Japan
Korea
Brazil
Abu Dhabi


The one where he performed brilliantly, IMO, was Germany where his speed and pressure made Felipe make a mistake and Nando in a perfect, almost sexy, way, overtook him.

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

:rotflmao:

A very unbiased review from you there. I will give you an equally unbiased review
Here are the number of races where Alonso performed badly
Bahrain
Australia
Malaysia
China
Spain
Monaco
Turkey
Silverstone
Canada
Valencia
Hungary
Spa
Monza
Singapore
Japan
Korea
Brazil
Abu Dhabi


The one where he performed brilliantly, IMO, was Germany where his speed and pressure made Felipe make a mistake and Nando in a perfect, almost sexy, way, overtook him.

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Ever thought about becoming a comedian?

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Originally Posted by wedge

Ever thought about becoming a comedian?

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Yes.

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

The one where he performed brilliantly, IMO, was Germany where his speed and pressure made Felipe make a mistake and Nando in a perfect, almost sexy, way, overtook him.

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:rotflmao: :up: Spot on!

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

What is wrong with my signature?

I have more F1 knowledge in my left testicle than you will ever have, my dear friend.

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I'm pretty sure all your F1 knowledge is located there.