BREAKING: Ferrari announce technical team shake-up after poor start to 2020

Rory Byrne ,good as he is is what now...76 ?

Remember him from his Royale FF days in late 70's! Anyhow good luck to him , but i think he needs more than evolution now , more like revolution.

 

Interesting news, but with the freeze on engine development, we are still screwed.
The 'spy' story is also interesting

 

Spy story? Have missed something??

 

https://www.corriere.it/sport/formula-1/notizie/ferrari-spy-story-dietro-crisi-altri-casi-sono-agguato-35c5793e-cb8b-11ea-bf7a-0cc3d0ad4e25.shtml?fbclid=IwAR2gz3SoZj40VaXh9Iq1OsCYN1HwLiCJrPYoIbm0te6N-UmsEchSMzfGzPY

 

Ferrari was victim of espionage by its engine, according to Italian press

-From Italy they assure that they stole information about the engine and transmitted it to the FIA
-The FIA-Ferrari private treatment arose from not being able to legally demonstrate the irregularities

The source of Ferrari's poor performance may lie in a case of industrial espionage. From Italy they claim that someone illegally obtained information about last year's engine from the Scuderia. These data reached the FIA and as a consequence, the Federation reached a private agreement that is unknown to this day.

Ferrari's speed in Italy last year drew too much attention from its rivals. The Scuderia was in the eye of the hurricane throughout the year due to the suspicions of the other teams about its engine, but especially in the second half of the year, after the victory of Charles Leclerc in Monza.

The teams asked the FIA for a series of clarifications on different aspects of the engine that they believed Ferrari was not complying with and the Federation responded with several technical directives after which the performance of the Scuderia fell suspiciously.

Ferrari has not recovered the form it showed in circuits such as Spa, Monza or Sochi and Binotto has admitted that this is a consequence of the technical directives issued by the FIA.

A year later, the renowned journalist Giorgio Terruzzi reveals that he was able to learn, through an FIA technician, that the campaign to disarm Ferrari began as early as last fall. Terruzzi speaks of an industrial espionage operation started by a Scuderia rival "with the complicity of someone who knows the Scuderia's best-kept secrets."

The leaked information reached the FIA, which could not legally demonstrate that the engine was not in compliance with the regulations and instead decided to reach a confidential agreement with Scuderia, of which the content is unknown today and which made those in red lose a series of developments considered "irregular".

The team's debacle was seen mostly from Austin last year, where Charles Leclerc could only be fourth and finished 52 seconds behind GP winner Valtteri Bottas. Incidents like the one in Brazil, with a touch between the drivers and double abandonment, did not help in a season that ended with Leclerc on the podium in Abu Dhabi, but 43 seconds behind the winner.

The preseason 2020 did not leave us a better image either, because Ferrari was the only team that did not manage to improve its best time of 2019 and it was already seen in the tests that they had lost speed on the straight.

Charles Leclerc predicted that this year they would suffer more than in 2019 and that is the way it is: although the Monegasque was able to get a podium in the first race, the Scuderia suffers a badly born car project and a 'capped' engine. They have moved on to another league: from fighting Red Bull to fighting against Racing Point and McLaren that have been reinforced this year.

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"Ferrari builds completely new 2020 car and targets Spanish GP'


It could just be that Ferrari suddenly comes up with a completely different car during 2020. If we are to believe Formula Uno Analisi Tecnica, the Italian race team is currently busy developing a completely new car.



The second version of the SF1000 should make its appearance during the Spanish Grand Prix at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, according to the expectations of the Italian medium.

It is said that the front of the Ferrari will be completely replaced and the concept used by Mercedes this year will be adopted. Furthermore they don't want to chase the Racing Points by copying the entire Mercedes car. Rumour has it that the Maranello based race team will continue to develop its own parts.

It is not the first time that there are rumours from Italy that Ferrari is working on a 2.0 version of the current car in the background.

https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/63798/-ferrari-bouwt-compleet-nieuwe-2020-wagen-en-mikt-op-spaanse-gp-.html

 

Roll on August...
I am not particularly optimistic , but I do not doubt that all the men and women at Maranello will put a fulsome effort into resolving the situation.
Fingers crossed in (possibly forlorn) hope !
Meanwhile I can get on with life, enjoy the summer weather and pay only slight attention to the inevitable Mercedes victories at Silverstone !

 

Who said boring season lol. A saga as only F1 provides.................

 

This is to save 'face' for this and next year. 2 long years. Hopefully positive results are to be seen.

The 2022 car hopefully will be sorted from day 1.

 

I absolutely believe there was espionage. The point is how else would anyone be able to complain and point to specific invisible functions on the car. They’d have to KNOW exactly what it was doing. Ferrari need a heavy politician ASAP.

 

Now they just need to fire Binotto and everything will fall in the right place....
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.breaking-ferrari-announce-technical-team-shake-up-after-poor-start-to-2020.4KXJeL8LAPO4LmEiLwgt8K.html

 

No wonder. All the heads of the engine department have regularly quit and gone to Merc for more money.

Regarding the reshuffle only difference I see is Cardile is now above Sanchez rather than sharing duties

 

If Ferrari isn’t able to build a legal competitive power unit, they have to fight against Renault, Williams and Alpha Tauri instead of Mercedes, RP, McLaren and Red Bull. Full Stop!

 

The culprit could now be sleeping with the fish.

 

And you believe all the other teams are not working in Grey areas in the rules, for sure of you instrumented to death any of the other cars you would find something.

 

You don't need to be a genius to join those dots together !

 

...and that makes IP theft OK? Makes espionage OK? IF Merc offered them more money then why? To gain internal confidential proprietary knowledge of The Scuderia’s technology and internal processes ??

The Scuderia is too peaceful for that now. Too amiable. Too docile. Too civilized. Frankly, They may need to be more hostile.

 

I believe that they work a little bit more clever than the Italian‘s, and that’s the point. Ferrari was clever in the times of Ross, Jean, Michele, Rory and so on. It took some time, ok. But it worked very well at the end. Nowadays we have Italian chaos at its best. I love Italy for that but unlikely it is very bad for Formula 1 and both of the very talented drivers.

 

Just an aside, and not a justification...
But what the **** is fuel flow meter of any description doing on a Formula 1 car?
Bring back unlimited fuel consumption and re-fueling stops.
Enough already of this pseudo green bollocks !
There, rant over.

 

I agree.

Time to reinvigorate it's tough love.

 

I don’t believe this at ALL. The Scuderia is plenty clever. So clever that the team who has the FIA in their pocket got a little uncomfortable and set their dogs on it. The Scuderia is the most consistent team in F1. Ross Brawn said he didn’t go back to lead the team because wining would be too easy. Red Bull AND Honda are having issues with the Red Bull car. It’s SO twitchy Max VerCrashin put it into the wall on an INSTALLATION LAP. No, the other teams aren’t working MORE clever OR more hard than Ferrari. Mercedes simply has the sport AND it’s governing body in their pocket and Mercedes pockets are deeper than the Scuderia have EVER been.

 

Time for a pint..........you have earned it

 

Sure money. Also is the work environment that bad at Ferrari. Possibly that as well.

 

This is just typical SF antics - deflect attention, ever since Domenicali was sacked they had problems and that was over 6 years ago. Admittedly they had a good car at times but the overall team performance in decision making, track or otherwise has been poor at best. Even with a bad car they make the wrong pit wall strategies so its not just a technical shake up they need, more of a iron leader. Arrivabene was a strong character but his aggressive nature did not endear him to the role, there are politics outside of track events that he couldnt handle imo

Binotto and his tech staff are good but to be effective they have to get the best out of them, sadly imo the politics will not change and that is what hampers the team as a whole. How come Allison, costa (& others) are proven to be so effective outside of SF?

Bringing in Byrne could be a good move but to develop that car will take time and not a short term fix, they can halt the slide most probably but there aint many cars behind them anyway!!

Tony