Ferrari reshuffles engineering staff

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The biggest change comes with former McLaren engineer Pat Fry replacing Chris Dyer as head of race track engineering with immediate effect. Dyer's new role at the team will be resolved in the next few days.

Ferrari has also confirmed the signing of former Red Bull Racing and McLaren member Neil Martin, who heads up the new Operations Research department. He will report directly to technical director Aldo Costa.

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You have this in Autosport, but James Allen and Joe Saward have also published entries in their blogs about this.

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Originally Posted by N4D13

You have this in Autosport, but James Allen and Joe Saward have also published entries in their blogs about this.

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I still want Domenicali's head.

this is bs alonso got out ahead of mark how could anyone know that alonso would forget how to overtake

I think Stefano Domenicali was right to say (link) that too much was made of the Abu Dhabi mistake so perhaps there has been a bit of an overreaction within Ferrari, maybe in response to the criticism they received.

Had pitting in response to Webber worked out for Alonso then the team would have been praised for their strategy call. It just shows how marginal these kind of decisions can be.

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Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1

Had pitting in response to Webber worked out for Alonso then the team would have been praised for their strategy call. It just shows how marginal these kind of decisions can be.

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Exactly. You don't get anywhere in this level of sport by just playing it safe all the time. Sometimes you have to take decisions which are on a knife edge, one way and you've got a massive victory, get it even slightly wrong, a crushing defeat, and the two are seperated by almost nothing.

I still believe that pitting Alonso was, at that time, the best alternative. Ferrari had had lots of wear in the super-soft tyres and they believed that if they kept Alonso on the track for more laps, they would have lost the place to Webber, which would have been even worse. However, it turned out that the super-softs weren't as bad as everyone expected, and so the gamble of those who decided not to pit paid off. And I'm not really sure that Alonso would have been able to get in front of Rosberg even when pitting much later - then again, being behind Rosberg would have put an end to his WDC campaign.

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Originally Posted by thunderbolt

this is bs alonso got out ahead of mark how could anyone know that alonso would forget how to overtake

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Would you have gone nuts much if anyone had said that about the guy behind him?

It was quite a difficult decision to take, especially in the heat of the fight, as not even now, in hindsight, one couldn't tell what would have been the decision that surely would have given them the title... I'm talking here, of course, about those who would think before writing something

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Originally Posted by eu

Would you have gone nuts much if anyone had said that about the guy behind him?

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Or Hamilton, with a much faster car and higher top speed, for the very same matter.

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Originally Posted by eu

Would you have gone nuts much if anyone had said that about the guy behind him?

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