Forza Ferrari !
"You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well." - Juan Manuel Fangio
I think the idea with 2 teams in the mix is not quite accurate. I know that maybe for us, Ferrari fans, 2015 was all about Ferrari vs Mercedes, but if we look outside the box it was just 1 team really. Sure we challenged in and even won a few races but Mercedes strongly dominated, and in my opinion Williams were closer to us than we were to Mercedes, even RBR at some point were closer to us than we were to Mercedes. The last race however showed how much progress we made even during the season. A no event race for the top 3 and Kimi still kept the Mercs honest and was miles ahead of the next non-Ferrari car. That allowed Seb to slide into 4th. Maybe next season it will be a 2 horse race, i hope so, but 2015 was not imo.
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Mclaren has a deficit of almost 2.7 seconds, which means, that by all means if they were to have a chance at the title that would mean they have to cover the 2.7 seconds and get at least another 1.5 seconds in the coming year in order to win the title.
That is a whooping 4.2 seconds year to year.
IF they manage something like that, my hat is off to them, however I sincerely doubt this.
So yea, I am ruling them out.
P.S , Ferrari finished 2014 with a deficit of 1.4 to 1.5 sec and they managed 2015 with a marginal 0.5 seconds. There simply is no comparison between these two situations, we're talking light years here.
McLaren was fighting in front of Marussia ... what else is there to say?
"If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari" - Gilles Villeneuve
As I said it is not gonna happen.;)
"If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari" - Gilles Villeneuve
The history of this sport is filled with many things that were thought to be "not going to happen" until they actually happened.
Never count anything out in F1
really??? is that what you really want??? i hope you're NOT actually serious and i hope FERRARI will never do that....
all one has to look is 2005 season for Mclaren....that car was FAST, some would say super fast....but it's reliability was ****; Just when ONE thought kimi would win a race or many races that season, his car would let him down almost every other race....if it wasn't for the MANY reliability issues he has had that season he would have been TWO times WDC by now....
surely Newey built a fast car that season, but boy 'oh boy was it ever fragile
so be careful what you WISH for
So 2023 started off bad, but managed to claw back some lap time come end of the year. Lets hope SF24 will give us tifosi something to smile about.
Honda is a mystery lately..They come in the turbo era, not this one, the other one,
make killer engines, although I believe a lot of that was down to the fuel restrictions then..they come back
when was that, 89 w/nat asp motors, very good, then they come back when? ah, late 90's? and were mediocre
at best, lotsa white smoke comin out the back o dos Honda's. So which Honda is going to show up?
They were down that many seconds a lap due to their motor, so if Honda builds a killer power unit, then yea, I do think it possible for them to get further up and make up quite a bit of that deficet. ..defecit...debifit..
But if its the Honda of late..well then, good luck Mac.
Forza Ferrari !
"You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well." - Juan Manuel Fangio
I understand what you say but I refer to the Honda of late. I don't believe they can switch to a honda of the past in like 2 months ,AND at the same time deliver a killer engine that will bring them to a performance level that could deliver them a WDC or a WCC.
As I said, should something like that were to happen, hats off, however, chances are this simply is a 0.0001% thing.
"If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari" - Gilles Villeneuve
It has to be the different generations of engineers at Honda, in all phases of that company.
The road cars were better and looked better before, the race motors were better...before, now
the road cars r overweight, their dependability isnt anything like it once was, n the way I can attest to that is owning them since the very early 90's. My newer Honda's have nowhere near the dependability, reliability
and even handling (fun to drive factor) as my older ones. If they dont show some kind of life in F1 this year, it may be the last we see of them for awhile.
Does anyone have an idea of how much time we can gain by having a shorter nose? Since we were the only ones not to run it last season, is it safe to assume we automatically gain this time over others this year ?
I think I;ve read an article last year (probably mid year), and James Allison said that he thought the shorter nose would NOT give us that much performance or maybe the way the 2015 car was designed overall, the short nose would not give us much gain or it not benefit us that much.
Having said that, we may probably see the short nose (or a version of the short nose, nor necessarily as short as Mercedes) on the 2016 car and as far as HOW much performance will give us, no one knows…because it will work as an overall package.
I really think so, yes.
With current rules it would be better to have competitive, but not so reliable, than weak and reliable PU. Especially when we didn't have the most powerfull PU last season and we are going to be a serious title contender this year.
In 2005 there was different engine rules. And even then, who knows how much speed McLaren would've lost by making their engine more reliable..
Too much confidence from the boss!!!!Ferrari big boss Sergio Marchionne has reiterated that his team has a winning target for 2016, starting with victory in the first race of the season in Melbourne.
Although it has emerged that development of the Maranello team’s 2016 car was delayed last year, president Marchionne said recently that immediate wins and the itle are the only goals for the forthcoming championship campaign.
It could be because of Ferrari’s recent separation from Fiat Chrysler, and an arguably shaky start to the floatation on the Milan stock exchange.
A marketing professor was quoted this week by the AFP news agency as warning that Ferrari must be about “performance and success”, while the F1 team must “win races”.
“If they have trouble with that, that (image) starts eroding over time,” he added.
At the Detroit Motor Show on Monday, Marchionne said: “Now it is important for Ferrari to work effectively in testing in Barcelona before heading to Australia for the first race of the season to get back to winning ways.”
The Italian media reports also quoted Marchionne as scoffing at critics of Ferrari’s stock market performance so far, saying “those talking (negatively) about the reaction of Ferrari on the bourse when there was the separation and distribution of 80 per cent of the capital are idiots”.
FERRARI FOR EVER !!!!!!!
confidence is what WE want....and especially coming from the big BOSS that is always good.
if he thinks taht Ferrari has the potential to win races, many of them next year and strating to do so right from Australia, then he must know something that none of us knows...OR he just wants to intimidate the big MERCEDES
Any idea what this is about?? Way too early for launch....
http://readysetred.ferrari.com/en/
From our friend #Gianlu27
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The only thing that "worries me" a bit ,is that the new PU looks a bit conservative like Renaults especialy that we no longer split the turbo-compressor !!!But if all this give us this special boost,its fine with me!!!!!
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FERRARI FOR EVER !!!!!!!
I think we'll dev see a different nose..remember Allisons last car from the guys he worked for b4..
Im betting more in line w/mercs...then again if it looks like Hamiltons, I may not watch F1 anymore...
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