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12th August 2009, 10:17 #41
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Originally Posted by Knock-on
The next year F1 Ferrari model has been tested in the wind tunnel for some time already and I think that Ferrari will start implementing ideas that others can't spot by just seeing the car (like weight distribution, which will be very important next season given that they will have to use fuel tanks twice as big as this season) and have Badoer test them.Michael Schumacher The Best Ever F1 Driver
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12th August 2009, 10:19 #42
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Originally Posted by Knock-on
No matter how good a feedback the driver gives, if the engineers arent clever enough, nothing will happen."signature room for rent"
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12th August 2009, 10:24 #43
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Originally Posted by ioan
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12th August 2009, 10:25 #44
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Originally Posted by Garry Walker
One of the reasons that race drivers are used more to test is that nowadays the engineers have all the technology they need to know if a car is performing as planned or not, and the driver is needed in order to dial in the car to his personal liking not to make it faster than what the engineers predicted.Michael Schumacher The Best Ever F1 Driver
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12th August 2009, 10:29 #45
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Originally Posted by Garry Walker
However, Brawn GP may be a new team in name but is a very established team going back a long way. They are hardly new kids on the block.
All I'm saying is that driver feedback is still important although as a componant of the whole package. One of the things about Schumacher was the way he could feedback exactly what he wanted to happen and mould a car around him.
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12th August 2009, 10:31 #46
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Originally Posted by ioan
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12th August 2009, 11:28 #47
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12th August 2009, 11:39 #48
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12th August 2009, 12:13 #49
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I think the bigger question is not if Badoer's driven the car or not, any driver worth his salt (which Luca definitely used to be...he didn't end up in F1 or at Ferrari by accident!) can adapt to a new car, especially a new version of a car he has already driven. I know there are significant differences in the rules from last year to this, but he can (as Schumacher did) bung slicks on the old model to make it a little closer than it used to be at least.
Rather the big question is whether he will be physically and mentally fit enough to cope with the demands of a GP weekend, where he will be compared against Kimi Räikönnen and be filling the shoes of messieurs Massa and Schumacher effectively! Could there be a more pressured seat to sit in than that!!!
I'm expecting him to push too hard in Qually, have an off and compromise his weekend...but if he can get some good laps in on Friday and adjust well (as I expect he will) then it's just a matter of keeping his cool. That Ferrari is now good enough to score points, and I think Luca may just do that at some point this season, but not at Valencia where I don't think he's ever driven at...Member of Race Drivers Inc.
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12th August 2009, 12:24 #50
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I'm expecting Luca to be knocked out in Q2. The current format is very different from the 12 laps, hour long session of old, and all of the 'old boys' (DC, Wurz et all) struggled to adapt to this new pressure pot of a qualifying.
He'll come into his own in the race - with the right stratagy he'll be metronomic and pound round to hopefully score his first points.All other opinions are wrong....
It was on qualifying stage, he rolled the car and it was said that he won't be able to start the rally. But team managed to repair the car and he did start and dominated drivers like Rossel, Gryazin...
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