Luca Badoer Finally Gets Ferrari Drive

i am a bit surprised he is so slow - i didn't expect much, but maybe a little more than this - that said, new track for him (i assume), no time in a car in 2009, perhaps it was best to get through today learning the track and not binning it. if he fails to build up speed through tomoorw and the race then that is disappointing and perhaps Piquet or Bordais should have been given the chance - i have no doubt they'd be quicker on the friday, lets see if he can improve over the weekend.

everyone would be condemning him if he binned it and damaged the car and lost track time

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Originally Posted by wedge

And what about Jaime Algae-something? He did himself respectful in Hungary

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Like I said before, Alguersuari was last, last and 18th in Hungary practice. Buemi was 19th, 10th and 12th or something like that.

Jaime did do well in Hungary, but what I'm saying is Luca has driven 3 hours in a racing car in about 6-8 months, and he's already halved the gap to his team-mate. Alguersuari has been racing all year so he should at least be up to some sort of speed straight away.

Luca has had to contend with learning the track, the car, and getting used to driving quickly again, which is probably what every driver has to do in winter testing. Even then they have only been out for a month or two.

I recall a couple of Ferrari drivers that didn't make it out of Q1. Who were they? Hmm, let me see, let me see . . . oh yeah, Felipe and Kimi.

Ole Luca ain't half bad only 1.3 off Kimi after one day.

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Originally Posted by christophulus

Ironically he's picked up two separate speeding fines during practice :dozey:

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According to Autosport he got 4 of them pit lane speeding fines!

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Originally Posted by ClarkFan

Well, he needs to take that onto the track! ;)

ClarkFan

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He was actually 7th fastest through the speed trap which means he is worryingly slow while cornering.
They showed a superposed comparison with Nakajima and it was obvious that Badoer was unable to carry enough speed through the corner. :\

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Originally Posted by Robinho

i accept your apology.

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First you'll have to wait for it.

I'm still willing to offer him the benefit of the doubt after an improved FP2 session. He's now 1.3 off the pace and he is certainly not been given any extra miles (in fact he did two laps less than Kimi) so I'd hope to see him close to within 0.5-0.8 secs of Kimi by qualifying.

I'm waiting til after the race to judge his performance. To be fair, it's a tall ask to be thrown in the car with no testing and expect him to be instantly on the pace. If he stays out of trouble and maybe sneaks a point or two he'll have done his job.

The car doesn't seem fast enough to be challenging for wins this weekend, and a level head and consistent performance will do just fine if the race gets a little chaotic (it's a street circuit so who knows!)

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Originally Posted by ioan

He was actually 7th fastest through the speed trap which means he is worryingly slow while cornering.
They showed a superposed comparison with Nakajima and it was obvious that Badoer was unable to carry enough speed through the corner. :\

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In one corner on the approach to which Luca overcooked it. By the end he was noticeably quicker.

IMO Valencia is actually a difficult track to judge drivers' relative speed. It looked like everyone was going slowly today :p

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Originally Posted by woody2goody

In one corner on the approach to which Luca overcooked it. By the end he was noticeably quicker.

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He pretty much overcooked every corner otherwise he wouldn't have lost on average one tenth per corner.