Ferrari spy

[Stormsearcher]

Just saw this article.

" Mercedes thwarted a Ferrari 'spy' during the post-race Abu Dhabi test on Wednesday.

Italy's La Gazzetta dello Sport and the German newspaper Bild published photographs of the blonde female Ferrari employee using an infrared video camera.

Wearing Ferrari team gear, she was using the camera in the spectator area immediately above the Mercedes team garage.

The reports said a member of the championship-winning Mercedes team went into the spectator area to ask his Ferrari counterpart to stop filming.

Asked what mission the 'spy' had been on, Ferrari told Bild: "Nothing special."

Are mercedes getting paranoid? Or are we really snooping around or is this rubbish journalism?

[jragona]

She was hardly a spy, it was obvious she was from Ferrari.

[Hornet]

Are mercedes getting paranoid? Or are we really snooping around or is this rubbish journalism?

There are pictures of it posted at the Abu Dhabi race thread, showing this Ferrari lady with her camera and a big Merc guy talking to her.

I wouldn't say "thwarted" though, Ferrari did it on day 1 of testing, and only on day 2 did Merc send that guy to talk to the Ferrari lady. I also don't think Merc can stop her, because it's public area and there are no rules against recording other team's car

[Kingdom Hearts]

I never saw a spy dress in red, problably not the best colour to spy, lol

[Silent Bob]

That's pretty rich calling her a spy. Out in the open, dressed in Ferrari clothes and in a public access area... what did Merc expect to be able to do and how did they thwart her? Now if she was really working for McLaren, then I'd consider calling her a spy.

[Nero Horse]

That's pretty rich calling her a spy. Out in the open, dressed in Ferrari clothes and in a public access area... what did Merc expect to be able to do and how did they thwart her? Now if she was really working for McLaren, then I'd consider calling her a spy.

[Nero Horse]

"Spying" with thermal cameras in nothing new in F1.

Here are Merc guys doing the exact same thing at Jerez pre-season testing...

[Stormy]

What Mclaren did to us 2007, now that is spying, this can't be called spying xD

[Nero Horse]

What Mclaren did to us 2007, now that is spying, this can't be called spying xD

You are 100% correct. The media just doesn't have anything to talk about during the off season and so they're trying to create some sensationalist garbage stories about nothing.

[Winter]

Spy She was wearing red, if she was a spy, she had a bad disguise for sure.

And so what if she was taking some pics/video, it's not like Ferrari was doing any illegal tire testing!

[fratelliferrari]

Spy She was wearing red, if she was a spy, she had a bad disguise for sure.

And so what if she was taking some pics/video, it's not like Ferrari was doing any illegal tire testing!

Well said

[Nova]

Spy She was wearing red, if she was a spy, she had a bad disguise for sure.

And so what if she was taking some pics/video, it's not like Ferrari was doing any illegal tire testing!

lol, now who would do something like that?

[DIEK]

[DIEK]

Ruth Buscombe






Ruth.Buscombe@ferrari.com

[DIEK]

The question is...who is she spying?

[Stormsearcher]

Spy She was wearing red, if she was a spy, she had a bad disguise for sure.

And so what if she was taking some pics/video, it's not like Ferrari was doing any illegal tire testing!

Bang on the money!

[Brembo]

She was probably just trying to get some photos of Lewis to sell to GQ magazine.

[Hornet]

Ruth Buscombe

Wow, turns out she's the race strategies for Massa and Kimi.

[Stormsearcher]

Wow, turns out she's the race strategies for Massa and Kimi.

lol.. not so wow then.

[Winter]

lol.. not so wow then.

But still wow, she is cute in red

[kaidu]

Wow, turns out she's the race strategies for Massa and Kimi.

No wonder they did so bad

Is she some kind of double agent...

[REDARMYSOJA]

Was there something illegal about what she was doing? If not, they didn't "thwart" anything, but instead disrupted an employee of Ferrari who was doing their assigned job.

[Giallo 550]

Too bad her race strategies for Felipe and Kimi didn't look as good as she does.

[Hornet]

Well just to clarify, her Linkedin profile stated that her position as Massa race strategist started in 2013. So she's not responsible for Massa's strategy in the years before that.

[Winter]

Well just to clarify, her Linkedin profile stated that her position as Massa race strategist started in 2013. So she's not responsible for Massa's strategy in the years before that.

So, Kimi had a rookie race engineer and rookie strategist Maybe they counted a bit too much on Kimis own experience..

edit. Yes, he knows what he is doing, but still

[Katu]

So, Kimi had a rookie race engineer and rookie strategist Maybe they counted a bit too much on Kimis own experience..

edit. Yes, he knows what he is doing, but still

just how will those rookie race engineers and strategists become not so rookie anymore? if you only count on experienced people race engineers and strategists will soon die out

[Winter]

just how will those rookie race engineers and strategists become not so rookie anymore? if you only count on experienced people race engineers and strategists will soon die out

Race engineer and race strategist, both were rookies. That is a major disadvantage and that was seen during the season.
What were the odds that Alonso would've had any rookie key figures on his side of the garage before the season? From zero to 0 would be my guess..

[Katu]

oh you have another reason why Kimi sucked this year. use it carefully

[Winter]

oh you have another reason why Kimi sucked this year. use it carefully

No, I stick with the fact that Kimi never got the set up to his liking because the car was made to be under steering.
But him being surrounded with rookies didn't help the matter

[justjesper]

Well Mclaren might be getting more Ferrari info soon :)
There is one driver who was caught in a espionage case before. Perhaps we should be more a freight of him.