I thought he had said his wife doesn't like Italy or something
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I thought he had said his wife doesn't like Italy or something
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Maybe he didn't like the idea of leaving his wife all alone in Italy,while he's busy at Ferrari trying to give the car more Down Force:)Originally Posted by Hermann
I thought he had said his wife doesn't like Italy or something
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What a wuss...
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Speaking of tires:::
Kumho conducts ‘F1 test’ in Spain
Stephen Goodchild | Monday 4th November 2013 | 0 Comments
Kumho conducts ‘F1 test’ in Spain
Sung Hak Moon poses with the Kumho-shod test car Kumho first stated its interest in F1 tyre supply as early as 2004, and speculation regarding the Korean tyre maker’s aims occasionally makes the news. Now the company itself has mentioned the F-word, reporting that in September it officially tested its F1 tyres – which have the same specifications as the tyres it will supply to Auto GP from 2014 – at Spain’s Circuit de Catalunya. Three days of evaluation began on 16 September and Kumho says the purpose for the test was to “validate the technology for future business with F1 and to actually test the technology accumulated through motor sports since the 1990s for F1.”
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FERRARI FOR EVER !!!!!!!
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What a wuss...
Probably not as big as Horner
Could be good even just to keep Pirelli in check and playing along.
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Ferrari and Lotus were lucky the Pirelli tyres introduced during the winter helped them become competitive, according to Red Bull’s chief technical officer Adrian Newey.
Speaking on the Sport und Talk programme on Red Bull’s television channel Servus TV yesterday, Newey disputed the claim the two teams had developed their cars to suit the original 2013 Pirelli tyres better.
“We had a big change over the winter, an unexpected change,” said Newey. “Pirelli introduced a new tyre which was much more sensitive, it was very easy to overload it and because our car, a lot of its lap time is under braking and in the high speed corners, where you’re putting a lot of load into the tyres, we couldn’t really exploit that without the tyres going off very quickly.”
Adrian Newey, Red Bull, 2013“So that tyre change hurt us and helped some other people, such as Lotus, Ferrari perhaps. For me that was purely luck.
“I think Lotus and Ferrari are making making noises about how clever they were over the winter to read that far. But to be perfectly honest they were just plain lucky, we were a little bit unlucky, and of course the the politics take over. So it’s been a challenging year but a very rewarding one.”
Lotus and Ferrari won three of the first five races but haven’t taken any victories since. Pirelli revised its tyres following the British Grand Prix in which several drivers suffered high-speed tyre failures.
Red Bull felt “fragile” at mid-season
Newey said in addition to pressure from Ferrari, Red Bull were also worried about Mercedes’ form in the middle of the season.
“It’s been a difficult season at times for us,” he said. “We started off, strong result in Malaysia, one-two in the second race. And then kind of our competitiveness went up and down a little bit.”
“It was a very close fight, Ferrari were very strong early in the season, Mercedes came on strong sort of around Monaco time. So come that middle of the season point we were not… we were in the lead of the championship, but it felt fragile, it felt as if Mercedes particularly at that point were on a roll.”
Newey admitted their focus on developing a car for next year’s rules change may have been compromised by their focus on securing the 2013 titles:
“We kept pushing, we introduced quite a few changes to the car, updates some in Hungary just before the summer break, then more in Spa. And that seemed to give us momentum.
“I guess really we’ve kept pushing all the way to Singapore in terms of introducing new parts, even Japan, which you could look back on now and say perhaps we pushed harder than we needed to because in doing that of course it’s taken resource off next year’s car.
“It didn’t feel that way at the time, it felt as if we needed to keep pushing and it’s been tremendous to have this roll that we’ve had at the end of the season.”
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Who were loud early in season because of tires. Red Bull simply works by principle of developing a year before car. This year the case was that the car wasn't good on this tires. So Newey was in wrong. In Spain RB were very loud because of 4 pitstops. In 2011 also were 4 pitstops and no one said a word. Then after tire changing they were all quiet. Just hate you more now Adrian
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