Ferrari 2021 Season - Preparation/News

I tend to agree with the post above. But then why did FIA change the aero rules so often in the Schumacher era?

 

To limit domination. They did the same in the Red Bull era.

 

I dont understand your logic here, surely rule stability is the stop spiralling costs [and favour one team] but how can lesser teams catch up to the TOP team if they are not allowed to evolve or even change their car without using a farcical token system!!

Its true the best innovator of a major rule change will sweep up the trophy's, what is not fair in my opinion is when all the other teams have their bats broken when the try to adapt!

Best

tony

 

To hinder the Schumacher/Ferrari dominance [in THAT order].

 

Painful to me the target this year is third...

argh....

2022 can't come soon enough.

 

True!!! But Mercedes has been working on 2022 since around 2018

 

And guess who’s gonna look stupid in front of his TV in 2022?It’s us..

 

It’s not easy to generalise about this problem. Yes, it would be nice if underperformers could catch up, but then you have to let the winners develop too - and with their extra cash they will just find ways to stay ahead.

 

Ferrari really did come off absolute worst from the COVID situation.

They were the first to be impacted and stopped working because of the outbreak in Italy. Then, as they were working to limp through 2020 with their worst car in years and looking towards the new car for 2021, this plan was scrapped and the 2020 car was to be reused for 2021. But now, that car can’t be fixed beyond areas approved through some stupid token system while others like McLaren get extra changes because of new PU and tRP and AT get additional changes because they’ll use 2020 parts from the 2 best cars of last year.

 

You are correct. Hurts my heart.

 

Let say the rules were stable {engines, fuel, aero limited, same tires, same circuits, same drivers, same metalurgy} for 1,000,000 years in a row.
Do you not think that every engine could evolve to the same limit in HP and TQ ?
Do you not think that the aero downforce would essentially converge (by simple copying if nothing else) ?

My argument is based on limits--given an engine architecture and a set of materials, sooner or later one can make an engine within a small fraction of a % of the absolute maximun amount of peformance an engine of that architectere can EVER produce. {same with aero, tires,...}

Thus rules stability (with limits) enables higher levels of competition. Disruption of the stable rules enables one (or more) teams (the more clever ones) to jump to the forefront while lesser teams appear to drop back.

 

I get the rules stability argument and its commendable but lets stick with the past few years, in my lifetime and how teams can catchup!.

If you have a system of rules stability then you need to find a way of ensuring teams can progress to be the best by innovation and win WDC and WCC. Currently the team in front remains the dominant team because of the car, aero and engine freeze. A token system limits that innovation.

Example, lets say Ferrari find a solution to their aero and engine woes, they are only allowed to implement some of them in order to leapfrog the pack.

Best Regards

tony

 

totally agree, everyone should be able to innovate including Mercedes. At the moment everyone is stuck in limbo with limited ways to overhaul their distinct advantage. This is why we have had total domination by team mercedes for several years
Best
tony

 

Ferrari confirms seven drivers will test the 2018 SF71H car at Fiorano next week: Sainz, Leclerc, Shwartzman, Armstrong, Alesi, Ilott and Schumacher.

Monday - Alesi, Armstrong, Shwartzman
Tuesday - C. Leclerc
Wednesday, Thursday AM - Sainz
Thursday PM, Friday AM - Schumacher
Friday PM - Ilott


Ferrari really doing amazing work in preparing their drivers for the upcoming F1 and F2 season. "Apart from being helpful for all the drivers, the test is also an opportunity for the team itself to prepare for the one and only pre-season test in Bahrain from 12 to 14 March."


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But someone blamed the rules stability; whereas it is shown that it is the token system that has broken the gains due to rules stability.

 

Toto Wolff to #ORF today if the problem with Hamilton's contract is just time or content:

"As is the case with negotiations, you come from different corners, but that's quite normal. We have a solid basis in our relationship, we have enjoyed great success and we want to do that in the future but sometimes you have to talk things out and that took us some time or it's still going on but before Bahrain at the latest we have to sign something."

#ORF Is there a deadline?

Toto Wolff "No, the lawyers are working hard, of course we don't make life easy for them when we both argue over Zoom and keep sending curved balls to the lawyers. But he is now in the US and I'm here and at some point we will finalise it."

#ORF Is there a plan B if Lewis doesn't sign?

Toto Wolff "Yes, I've already threatened him that I'll be the next in line to sit in the car." Finally an Austrian in F1 again! Yes finally! We just have to adapt the car, that's the only problem.

But that's not up for discussion

Toto: Exactly.We never played the Russell card either. He's sold himself incredibly well & 1day he'll be in a top car but our long-standing partnership is not about any threatening. We know we want to race together & now we just have to negotiate.

Toto Wolff has been in Kitzbühel in quaratine for 10 days after a positive test but it's all fine now and he never had any symptoms.

Toto Wolff: "We planned to stay for some days in Kitzbühel, then out of nowhere I had a positive Covid test. So we quarantined ourselves for 10 days here." Everything is fine now? "Thankfully no symptoms, because it can also go badly, but we are now out of quarantine."

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Toto Wolff on the current status of Lewis's contract negotiations:
• he made it clear that they want to continue
• at the very latest before Bahrain the contract needs to be signed
• they never played the "Russell card" on Lewis

 

History repeating itself. 30 years after Jean, it’s now time for Giuliano Alesi to get his first laps in the SF71-H.

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Marcus Armstrong

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I don´t know why they gave a test to Alesi Jr. He´s already been ousted from the Academy.

Maybe it´s just that they owed a favour to his father.

 

I thought it had been denied.

edit: DF1 beat me

 

here is the post, I believe: https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/2020-silly-season.618660/page-11#post-147565669

 

Oh, I see.

Anyway, he must be running out of credit, his record in F2 is not spectacular and Illiot and Schwartzmann are way ahead of him in the queue.