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3rd March 2012, 19:26 #171
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Regarding Ferrari v Lotus. Yea, Alonso will outscore Kimi over a full season. Also considering Kimi's comments about steering issues as the car may not be to his liking/he is still re-adapting to F1, etc. So getting top performance out of himself may take time. But it must be added that beating over a full season doesn't mean Lotus couldn't be able to beat Ferrari early in the season. Flashback to 2011. From the first two races Renault got two podiums, Ferrari zero. Going by the points accumulated by the end of the year one wouldn't have expected such start!
But beating Lotus over a full season is not Ferrari's priority, WDC is. However, this is where they are most likely going to fall short, even more so than in 2011 if testing is anything to go by.
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4th March 2012, 04:13 #172
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According to an article published on the Italian press, Fry seems confident Ferrari is not ready to win yet. That's due to a failure of one of their main projects: having their diffusers blowing outward.
After determining during testing the that this solution was not working the way the thought they decided to go "a la RB", (sorry for accent mark missing on the "a" : ) with their diffusers blowing inword.
Such a change should not represent a major set back, however for the team. In fact Fry still feels that Ferrari would be upthere with the other teams.
He also says that the project is not being abandoned and that their engineers would be continuing working on the devollopement of this project and introduce it in the due time, convinced of the fact once applied it would give the car a decive boost.
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4th March 2012, 13:01 #173
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Major revision for RBR
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4th March 2012, 16:29 #174
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Vettel Owns up to going off and damaging the new front wing. Where's Webber's front wing when you need it?
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6th March 2012, 12:24 #175
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Basically the trend this year is still blowing the diffuser but also the rear suspension.
However the rules say that the exhaust exit angle should be at least 10°. To get round this the rear of the sidepods are aggressivelly sloped to meet the floor of the chassis and thus creating a channel of air and exhaust air to feed into the rear of the car.
RBR have a novel system: they have a duct at the bottom of the sidepods. Air from the side/bottom profile of the sidepods is fed into this duct and exits at the floor/sidepod transition and thus more air to play with
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10th March 2012, 08:15 #176
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Originally Posted by Mia 01
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Two real racers: Vettel the :champion: of 2010, 2011 and 2012 - Kimi the :champion: of 2007
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10th March 2012, 08:47 #177
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I disagree with the pessimistic view (that so many of you share) of the Ferraris' performance.
I know for a fact that they are working at this very moment, on a B chassis, which is identical to the A chassis at the front, and has minor mods at the back and sidepod area to accomodate new sidepods' shape. This will allow a better placement of the exhaust tubes that will allow to channel the air towards the inside. This will give 25% more downforce, fixing most of the balance problems.
Another thing to consider is practice times, with alonso being the fastest in Barcelona (fastest average), and the team admitting that the Ferrari is fast on a single lap, I would not be surprised to see Alonso qualify in the top 3 spots, and actually I would cont on it.
The major problem, and the biggest unknown is tyre wear. The car has shown to be hard on tyres, but OZ is a different track and you can't really be sure of anything when it comes to tyre wear.
When we look at the comments of Pat Fry etc, we have to consider that they had set a much higher goal this year, to be well ahead of the competition from the word go.
This hasn't happened and to see other cars that are roughly at the same level, is viewed as a failure.
Expect the ferraris to be doing much better than you think they will...
Mark my words for it.
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10th March 2012, 15:15 #178
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Looks like Horner thinks the same as I do:
Horner: Beware of Ferrari | Planet-F1 News from planet-f1.com
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10th March 2012, 22:59 #179
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11th March 2012, 06:45 #180
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Originally Posted by CavallinoRampante
This will allow a better placement of the exhaust tubes that will allow to channel the air towards the inside. This will give 25% more downforce, fixing most of the balance problems.Marco Simoncelli 1987-2011
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