is Sergio Marchionne blaming drivers for F1 season?

Rolls eyes!

 

He partly blames the drivers:

"It was the combination of, especially in the second half of the season, between technical issues and driver error or driver misjudgment."

And he's right, Vettel made some mistakes, had some misjudgments

 

Vettel not blameless, neither is Ferrari.

8 races on a turbo, poor quality parts. Luck not been on our side either with double tire failures. Yes Vettel screwed up retaliating to Lewis and just not using his head in Singapore. It certainly could've gone to Abu Dhabi, if it wasn't for either of Vettel's mistake or Ferrari's mistakes. What Ferrari certainly mustn't do is start their usual blame culture as it'll be a long, long winless streak.

 

We didn't have the overall performance in the car to truly challenge this year, we were good in parts, bad in others. The Mercedes is the faster car overall, and the better all rounder once they sorted out the setup issues they started the year with. Hopefully next year we won't be swimming uphill and eradicate the stupid errors

 

After qualy in Brazil Bottas correctly brought his car back to the pit lane to do the driver interviews..whilst Ferrari parked Vettel and Kimi on the track...this shows a lack of attention to detail and is just one aspect of why Ferrari managed to screw themselves in 2017.

 

Uncle Sweater apparently doesn't own a mirror....

 

When you don't read your e-mails

 

Nope, we need a good number two, and to give the pair of them a reliable fast car. Vettel is our clear choice for number one driver at the moment, and he won't play well with another number one, hence Kimi. If our car were better, his results would be better, how many did Kimi lose from either retiring during the race, or not even starting one? A lot, he'd have been a clear fourth, if not third given bottles issues.

 

..."even verstappen"...Forgive me but do you watch any of the races? Or just wiki the results?

 

this season there is plenty of blame to go around.

What a waste.

 

I agree, a definite #2 like vettel to Danny Ric would be just great !!

I'm not watching F1 next year ................ but the following year when Dan is at Ferrari will be excellent

 

There is no point in playing the blame game mate, this ain't a divorce

 

Actually, I disagree. If you never learn from your mistakes you are bound to repeat them. There where plenty of mistakes this season.

Vettel was like 29 points ahead at one point and lost the championship with 2 full races left in the season. FAIL.

 

Oh it was a fail, but blaming people only generates a poor working space and the last thing we need is for Ferrari to fall into the 21 year cycle again .... I'll go back to fishing if that happens AGAIN

 

I think the drivers (both of them) need to know they could have had a better season even if they were let down at other times for mechanical issues.

They are big boys. They make the big bucks. No harm in stating what needs to be said.

 

I'm surprised by your comment is all. Kimi is the #2 driver, so even when he has been ahead, or much faster than Vettel, he's not allowed to finish ahead (Monaco, Hungary). I've no issues with this as Vettel is a 4x WDC and paid accordingly, and more consistently fast. Kimi is no slouch and has been very close to Vettel, however Vettel remains priority and Ferrari will wreck Kimi's race if they can gain a small advantage (for Vettel) from it. How many times have we heard him angrily on the radio begging for a pitstop lap after lap only to be ignored? I think in China his tires where so ruined he lost 3 seconds a lap to the rest (who had stopped) but Ferrari refused to pit him... Add to that the bad luck with failing parts that takes a lot of points away (notably car failure in Malaysia, he would've had a very strong chance at winning that race. Brake failure in Canada...used as a brake in Spain and Baku by Bottas. An easy 100 points deficit here not through his fault at all.

He's had a couple of qualifyings when he's been far of Vettel's pace, but this is pretty rare. Those are typically the days when Vettel really finds something special, the reason why he's a 4x champ and paid as such.

I'm puzzled with your ''And even Verstappen may do better" comment. Whether one likes him or not it's pretty obvious he's one of the truly great talents in the sports history, hence my questioning how much you watch or not.

Ferrari obviously sees something in Kimi otherwise they'd have replaced him this season. Vettel didn't have a contract, they could've bought Bottas, Sainz, Verstappen, Ricciardo and plenty of others, but they took Kimi's option.

What do I do? How is that relevant? I go to races too but that doesn't make me more an expert than if I didn't.

 

Alonso, LH, Redbull drivers.

 

Geez, don't come into the Aussie section if that upsets you

They're a pack of bastards there

 

Right, but the intra-team battle will ensure the title goes to another team then unless Ferrari somehow manages to build a car half a second clear of the next team.

 

They took Kimi to keep Vettel.
Alonso and LH are the best of the old gen. Ricardo and Verstappen of the new gen.

Vettel lost the DC himself.