Great strides? At continuing failure? Is Mercedes that strong or could it be that Ferrari can't get it's act together to beat them? There are 2 sides to every story.
Exactly, the guy means business, and that doesn't resound very well with the Ferrari ethos, which is motor racing. The last road cars are ugly, and before long, Marchionne will bring SUVs in the Ferrari range.
Concur. The 458 is a good looking car (which was Pininfarina) but Ferrari hasn't made a good looking, standard production car since. And the FF and GTC4 are an absolute nightmares.
The 458 and FF were designed by Lowie Vermeersch, former design director at Pininfarina, along with Flavio Manzoni (Ferrari's Styling Center) if that carries any weight with the Pininfarina lineage.
Also Ramaciotti former PF head is head of design at FCA. Perhaps they can wrangle things in a bit, however the large bureaucracy is what it is.
I'm literally sick to my stomach watching the mechanics scurry around the car trying to resolve issues seconds before the race starts.
Here's what Kimi has to mumble about the next races. Kimi Raikkonen believes his Ferrari Formula 1 team can win any of the final four races of the season if it can cut out the mistakes and get on top of its problems. Ferrari’s championship hopes have all but vanished in the last three races, with the team now trailing Mercedes by 145 points while Sebastian Vettel is 59 behind Lewis Hamilton with 100 remaining. Vettel and Raikkonen were wiped out on the first lap in Singapore, while in Malaysia Vettel suffered an engine failure in Malaysia that prevented him from doing a timed lap and Raikkonen suffered a similar issue that stopped him from starting the race. Then in Japan, Vettel started second but retired early on with a spark plug failure, as Hamilton won, while Raikkonen recovered from 10th on the grid - having taken a five-place grid penalty because of damage caused in his FP3 crash - to take fifth. When asked which of the final four races - United States, Mexico, Brazil and Abu Dhabi - offered Ferrari the best chance of victory, Raikkonen said: “Any of them, as long as we do everything as well as possible. “It’s a bit unknown, the tracks are different from each other. So we go every weekend, start from zero and do the best that we can and avoid the issues and mistakes.” Ferrari had a car capable of taking a one-two in Singapore and arguably Malaysia, while in Japan, it should have pushed Mercedes hard. But the engine problems, driver error and misfortune has contributed to Ferrari scoring just 22 points in those three races compared to 105 for Mercedes. “I don’t know what is going to happen - nobody knows,” said Raikkonen regarding Ferrari’s chances in the constructors’ championship. “But I know we are going to push until the last lap in the last race and see where we end up. “It hasn’t been the greatest races lately but I think we have the speed when they put things in the right place - that is at least something positive.” Lifted from Motorsport.
i still think (hope) Kimi will win one of the remaining races,the car is very fast,IF they will let him off the leash.
Really -- he just thought of this?? Sebastian Vettel: Ferrari needs long-term solutions to 2017 issues http://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/21082065/sebastian-vettel-ferrari-needs-long-term-solutions
