Jerez F1 test: Nico Rosberg says Ferrari's early pace is eye-opening - F1 news - AUTOSPORT.com...
Jerez F1 test: Nico Rosberg says Ferrari's early pace is eye-opening - F1 news - AUTOSPORT.com http://www.planetf1.com/driver/55667788/29526/Vettel-quite-happy-with-Ferrari-platform http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117578 Allison doing his job.....
This is what i wanted to hear from kimi....nopw, maybe Merc will pull a rabitt and blast everyone else but things start to look good for us
from my post in the other thread: I read this very interesting bit somewhere around Ferrari's new and improved pull-rod layout. Probably why the front-sensitive Kimi & Seb will probably enjoy the new 2015 car: "...instead of the conventional A arm or wishbone arrangement, it instead had what in effect was just a single arm but with a forked end into the chassis. To get the equivalent strength of a conventional wishbone, this had to be much heavier but in eliminating the second arm it removed a key aerodynamic blockage in the creation of the vortices ahead of the sidepod. The Mercedes W05 therefore got to have its aerodynamic cake and eat it, with good front and rear downforce. This suspension innovation has been copied by Ferrari on the new SF15-T. Although the car retains uniquely among the 2015 field pull-rod front suspension, it has Mercedes-like single lower arms with forked ends. The pull-rod layout already gives a clearer airflow passage (because the lower arms are higher, further out of the way of the airflow coming off the front wing) but with the single lower arms, its now clearer still. Ferraris aerodynamicists should have plenty of scope to place the vortices in just the right place to accelerate the overall front airflow. This should be vital in clawing back front downforce almost certainly lost to the very different nose layout."[/QUOTE]
Given that the teams only have a total of 4 PU's for the upcoming season, then reliability and long term performance retention has to be a concern. No use running the 5th race on a PU with only 50% power! Seems like Mercedes (and maybe a few others) have that covered given the number of laps running the same PU in one day. I wonder if they can test high boost levels without giving any clues as to performance? Sure would be nice to see them let loose for a lap just to get a perspective
Ferrari definitely looking promising. Too early to get hopes up, but hard to resist! McLaren on the other hand… Man, they have no chance of making 4 PUs last a season if they can't even get to half race distance without a blow up. They need to turn this around double quick or it's game over for their season and sponsorship prospects. Ron must be a comedically agitated site right now.
Great stuff from Allison & Kimi. They worked well together in Lotus and seems they made a great improvement here as well already. Fingers crossed!
Where did they say they had a blow up? Last time I checked, it was a cooling leak. Mercedes had one too, but theirs was easier to locate/fix.
Thank you for mentioning that. This goes way under acknowledged. I don't think it was a coincidence that Lotus turned from loser to winner when they arrived in enstone.
This is interesting. I am wondering if the F14-T was slow because SF was being conservative and nursing the power units? Or rather just under geared them for reliability and extra care? Well haha, they had a whole season to figure that out so it couldn't be that simple. It is nice to see competitive power and speed now. MB seems to have a busy front wing. What's going on there?
+1 Very exciting combo, Although I wish it were a Torro Rosso younin' in place of Seb, otherwise, I'm happy to see Alonso gone, and a designer/driver pair that can work together. If only they can keep from innane pit strategies, I may enjoy following Ferrari this season. ^^ As for testing, it may be Ferrari changed the least on their engine, leaving tokens in store, with less to "test" and "break in", they are working on the aero/suspension instead, and hence, the faster times.
Hit a half inch thick steel plate with a 20lb sledge hammer under high speed photography. "Fixed" is very relative. The FIA puts in tests, teams pass the tests....
92 laps for the Kimster is great. But i'm still very cautious. Last year, reliability wasn't at issue. Rather, various factors were.
That was the other thing I was thinking too. I read it on Skysports live blog, I stayed up all night following the blog.
From sky sport Italia speaking with Toto. Translated well: "The W06 is not an evolution of the W05 like many people said, but a completely new car even in the layout, but I don't want to get into details. In Jerez we're always running full tank and with a racing setup, so everyone else could infer our pecking order... we cannot know where other teams stand if they don't run or run with low fuel. In Barcellona [test] 1 and especially [test] 2 we'll concentrate on pure performance, when all the developments for the [Australia] race will be ready.
Ferrari and Mercedes very positive and stable on turn in per autosport's trackside man. Kimi must be happy.
Haha! Toto is getting sick of the performance question already. I'll be curious to see what times they put up when they go for performance. Why would they do an entirely new platform do you think? Were they worried that with F1 re-writing the regulations again everyone would gain too much ground? I can't imagine trying to "manage costs" in F1. Almost sounds like an oxymoron - throw out the car almost every year and start from scratch. Just crazy.
