How strong is the Ferrari?

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Originally Posted by pino

...and Jarno's car will broke in every single race ? :p :

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That or he will put it off the road or into another car DC style :D

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Originally Posted by ioan

I think that Todt might be in Sepang next week end, just to make sure they don't screw it twice in a row.

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That will only serve to distabilise the team, undermining/questioning their abilities, won't it?

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

But then what will happen at the race after that, and the one after that? Todt can't be there all the time. The new people need time to bed in on race weekends, and making mistakes is part of this. How else will they (hopefully) learn?

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I don't really see what the big deal is here. Ferrari had a component failure in Kimi's car in practice, Massa and DC had their racing incident and Kimi took the car off road which may have had something to do with the engine failure. The only bad decision for them was not to bring Kimi in during the SC period. McLaren made dumb decisions last year also. Were the same people who are making a mountain out of a molehill now pointing out the big holes in McLaren's strategy?

I personally think the F1 teams should fire these people who are being paid lots to work race strategies out and hire some of the geniuses from the forum :) Funny how people on this forum can only point this stuff out AFTER it's happened. If they pointed these things out before the race or the season I'd be impressed.

I'm sure if Jean Todt was around Kimi wouldn't have had engine issues in qualifying, Massa would not have spun, DC would not have taken Massa out and Kimi's car would have made it around that corner and not gone through the kitty litter.

:dozey:

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Originally Posted by SGWilko

That will only serve to distabilise the team, undermining/questioning their abilities, won't it?

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These are professionals. Not a bunch of school kids.

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Funny how people on this forum can only point this stuff out AFTER it's happened. If they pointed these things out before the race or the season I'd be impressed.

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I wish I knew the lottery numbers before they were drawn........

How can you question three engine failures before the three engines that failed, failed, probably due to a failure? ;) :confused:

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Originally Posted by Daniel

These are professionals. Not a bunch of school kids.

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Are you sure?

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Originally Posted by SGWilko

Are you sure?

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Daniel is wrong, Montezemolo and Todt hired those people whilst walking in the city of Bologna in a sunny day...

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Originally Posted by SGWilko

I wish I knew the lottery numbers before they were drawn........

How can you question three engine failures before the three engines that failed, failed, probably due to a failure? ;) :confused:

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You can't. These things happen. I wouldn't be surprised if the Ferrari engines are fine next weekend. If you want to see a PROPER trend of engine failures you need to look at when Peugeot used to supply engines. Now those engines WERE unreliable.

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Originally Posted by SGWilko

Are you sure?

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Not so sure now Pino has said what he said :laugh:

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Originally Posted by Daniel

I don't really see what the big deal is here. Ferrari had a component failure in Kimi's car in practice, Massa and DC had their racing incident and Kimi took the car off road which may have had something to do with the engine failure. The only bad decision for them was not to bring Kimi in during the SC period. McLaren made dumb decisions last year also. Were the same people who are making a mountain out of a molehill now pointing out the big holes in McLaren's strategy?

I personally think the F1 teams should fire these people who are being paid lots to work race strategies out and hire some of the geniuses from the forum :) Funny how people on this forum can only point this stuff out AFTER it's happened. If they pointed these things out before the race or the season I'd be impressed.

I'm sure if Jean Todt was around Kimi wouldn't have had engine issues in qualifying, Massa would not have spun, DC would not have taken Massa out and Kimi's car would have made it around that corner and not gone through the kitty litter.

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As I've said several times in various threads, I quite agree and think it's WAY too early to write Ferrari off on the basis of Melbourne, or even criticise them too much. My point is that when you've appointed a new team of people, no matter whether it's in F1 or another line of work, that team needs time to gel while doing the job. Bringing someone from the past back often isn't a good idea, and certainly not this soon.

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

As I've said several times in various threads, I quite agree and think it's WAY too early to write Ferrari off on the basis of Melbourne, or even criticise them too much. My point is that when you've appointed a new team of people, no matter whether it's in F1 or another line of work, that team needs time to gel while doing the job. Bringing someone from the past back often isn't a good idea, and certainly not this soon.

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But was it really a big team failure? The only one I spotted was not bringing Kimi in when they should have. Other than that it was square jawed Scot's, wayward engine parts and a somewhat wonky Finn that ruined their weekend.