...typed with the alacrity of someone using a Ferrari keyboardMoFo wrote:Of course not, but Ferrari aren't a vehicle manufacturer, they're an apparel (/'lifestyle branding') company.Seiiki wrote:To be quite honest, I don't think the revenues earned from high performance vehicle sales exceed the cost structure of their F1 and sportscar program.
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Great stuff. Just like the 60s & 80s. Italians having fun. It took Brawn & trodt to bring things together for Shumi to win. This is fun stuff.
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The Italian are resilient. It only takes a couple of year to get rid of the German, English and French influence from their team:)
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I always remember Sniff Petrol as describing him as being "Ferrari Minister in Charge of Being on Television". Seemed like a nice enough guy, but the usual political F1 animal. Heads were always going to roll after the miserable results of the last few races.
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You have to figure that new CEO Marco Mattiacci has been handed a hospital pass after almost 7 years with no decent results.
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Don't forget, during the Schumi Era. He also tested Special Bridgestones just for himself and the others got the "Specs". With the best car, probably the best talent in himself, the best conditioned driver, the best team to support him, the best tyres, plus his A1 lackey to protect him, why wouldn't he win? Mika ran out of gas in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2004 was a cakewalk. 2003 was only close because of Kimi's abilities to stacking points and Montoya's brilliance in the Williams-BMW. Still Schumi only needed one single point to clinch at Suzuka. Finally, Michelins caught up to Bridgestone in 2005 and 2006. However, pieces of Ferrari dominance were coming apart when Schumi chickened out fighting with Kimi in 2007. It was the in-fighting of the Mclaren team which gave Kimi an remote outside chance similar to Hunt in 1976 to fight back from so far behind. 2008 was lost on 2 fronts. The bad batch of engines which ruined Felipe in Hungary, but was more than lucky to gain points on that bogus time penalty on Lewis at Spa. Surely the crashgate wasn't Felipe's fault but the pit screw-up with that cute traffic light signal cost their title. Once again, they screwed up on the race strategies at the 2010 finale and the blame was on the team. Not Petrov because he had to right to defend. 2012 was a complete dog and it was a miracle that Fernando had even got it that close. Sure, that was always what if had Grosjean not crashed into the Ferrari but that car shouldn't even be in the points, let alone the podium. Now this F14T was hopelessly off the pace even more than the RB10. I was surprised that those top brass at Ferrari could have stayed that long with all those resources at their disposal and all they could come up is a car that looked like an anteater. They need big time help and even the best pairing of former WDCs could only do so much. At this pace, I would be surprised if they could even get a podium without a miracle. They should change the name of the car to "FLAT"!Tiffoc wrote:Your point (1) Yep! totaly agree...JamesB wrote:Yes, Schumi took 5 years to win the title OK. But:
1-he found Ferrari in a MUCH WORSE situation that Alonso did
2-he also came quite near at 2nd and 3rd try.... well like Alonso anyway
3-without something as unusual as the Silverstone accident, there's little doubt he'd done it in '99
4-Schumi's contribution in terms of setting up was doubtlessly quite important... something that starts to be a doubt about Fernado's abilities on that (beyond what we may say without any substantial grounds) but then also today's f1 has seen driver's role (in terms of developement) vanish virtually to zero.
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Point (2) agreed again James and point (3) is a carry on of point (2)
Now point (4) is the interesting one, Schumi's relationship with his mechanics was second to none... So much so! he took the majority with him after leaving Benetton to Ferrari.
He would stay up all night working with his mechanics, setting the car up, giving not only practicle advice as the driver, but offering mechanical advice as well...
Not everybody realizes he was a fully skilled mechanic himself. His father wanted him to have a professional Career, just in case. So Michael's input on the car was again, yes! second to none.
But even with all that input, it still took him 5 years
Fernando is different yes, but driving wise, he's as good as Michael, canny, shrewd and will take on the best of 'em. Remember that fantastic overtake on Schumi at the 130R at the Japanese GP. He can do it for Ferrari, given the car...
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