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Thread: Alonso and Massa
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25th July 2007, 15:48 #101Originally Posted by andreag
The one that drove 2003, 2005 and 2006, and the one who drove 2002 and 2004.
Saying Kimi breaks the car is one thing, explaining why out the last full five seasons he's had three seasons where he had less problems than his team mates and still saying he breaks the car more often than his team mate is another.
2007 figures are also bit mis-leading, Massa has had two mechanical problems that were present before the race(one if you believe he stalled the car by accident at Silverstone)C'est la vie ja taksi tuo.
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25th July 2007, 15:50 #102
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Here was a question that how can Kimi break hydraulics or electronics with driving style.
Well, we may take another approach. As Kimi is not very interested in the technical side of F1 nor isn't a top car developer, then he doesn't put as much emphasis on preparing the car for the race as do the rivals, which results in having more unreliable cars.
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25th July 2007, 15:54 #103
Jens, can you name even one driver who participates at all in the desing and manufacturing or assembly of every component in the car?
I didn't know Massa or Alonso spend their race weekends building race cars on behalf of their engineers.C'est la vie ja taksi tuo.
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25th July 2007, 15:57 #104
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Originally Posted by jens
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25th July 2007, 16:15 #105
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Originally Posted by janneppi
I think Alonso, Massa and Lewis (and I am sure for Lewis and Alonso) spend a lot of time with their engineers in their free time and talk to them what they think can be changed or improved on the car. Drivers learn from engineers and engineers learn from drivers. Otherwise I can't see any need of test and practice session before any race?!
It would be like saying, engineers design and build the cars and give them to drivers on sunday to race whatever the drivers may like or not like as long you seem to say drivers don't have any input in design, construction or assembling the car.
Today, one of the things Ferrari is missing, is the strong feedback from MS and a part of their reliability issue is down to their lack of MS and Ross Brawn.
Last year, Ferrari was on top with MS and Mclaren was down because of their lack of reliability. And today it is the reverse?! Mclaren seems to be more reliable than Ferrari. Mclaren benefiting from Alonso and Ferrari missing MS. Following this, I hope drivers are very important as well in building up a competitive and reliable car.
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25th July 2007, 16:48 #106Originally Posted by F1MAN2007
A driver can only really give input on what he feels driving the car, not on a a specific part of traction control algorithm or in stress analysis of a suspension arm.C'est la vie ja taksi tuo.
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25th July 2007, 19:09 #107
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Originally Posted by F1MAN2007
It’s drivers work to tell to the team what he needs to be faster on the track. That’s the point. That’s a drivers work, because without that he or a team will newer be as champions.
So its’ not true at all that Kimi doesn't work with his team. He is working very hard with his team and you can even see the result today (if you want) because the car is today much more suited for him than it was in beginning of the year. It’s a result of the team work there Kimi has his important part ..So if we first are saying that the car is today much better suited for Kimi and then assert the contrary ??? To be quite honest with you it doesn’t sound quite truthful.
But things like electric or hydraulic failures are definitely not Kimis fault.
Two real racers: Vettel the :champion: of 2010, 2011 and 2012 - Kimi the :champion: of 2007
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25th July 2007, 20:19 #108Originally Posted by jens
Because seriously however good a driver is on the technical side, the final prep/building of the car is out of his hand. As is the luck of the draw, faulty components, strategy gone bad, weather etc.
Kimi has has rotten luck in his whole career (I call it bad luck, some of you can call it his driving style which breaks cars ). If he had as much reliability of Alonso/Renault (forget MS and HIS bullet-proof car) he would be have been atleast a 1-time world champ by now.Tito Vilanova = :champion:
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25th July 2007, 22:46 #109
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Back to topic, here's the onboard camera from changing tyres to one lap after Fernando overtakes Felipe:
http://stage6.divx.com/F1-Erco/video...-Massa-Onboard
Look at the open line Fernando use to take the turns on wet; he did the same last year at Hungaroring, as this video of the Michael hunt shows:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7vXP50UYZY
In fact this is the right way to drive on wet, and surprinsingly Michael should know it, as someone (and not anyone) did the same some years ago:
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=fVQFEFtFBCA
The reason is simple; on wet, the usual driving line, which has too much rubber on it, is much more slipery than the rest of the track, so cars drive slowly on this line, but if you leave it, you can drive faster and safer, with more grip than your opponents.
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26th July 2007, 00:33 #110
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Anyways, after 6 pages........ the end result is that one of the 2 drivers has 2 world titles and won the race........... the other has nothing.
Felipe got schooled. Simple as that.
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