Jul 10 2007, 11:48 PM
QUOTE(Ferrari looks to improve first lap pace )
17 April 2007
With a four week gap to the next race in Spain, all eleven teams will be hard at work with testing and developments, as well as sorting out the odd mystery. For Ferrari top of the list is addressing its first lap pace problem that leaves it at risk of being passed by McLaren.
"We can't talk about a specific problem but an optimisation that has to be done on the first lap and in handling the car," said Ferrari technical director Mario Almondo. "Kimi's driving style is something that we are evolving in the direction of better performance and use of the car and the package of the car plus the tyres and this, as I said, is a normal and natural process that takes more time."
"The only thing that we can do is work as hard as we can with our development programme," he added. "There will be an important aero package and a few other things. We have an aerodynamic test at Vairano and then in Barcelona before the race. It's up to our competitors to do more than what we are going to do. I cannot make any prediction on what we have to do."
With a four week gap to the next race in Spain, all eleven teams will be hard at work with testing and developments, as well as sorting out the odd mystery. For Ferrari top of the list is addressing its first lap pace problem that leaves it at risk of being passed by McLaren.
"We can't talk about a specific problem but an optimisation that has to be done on the first lap and in handling the car," said Ferrari technical director Mario Almondo. "Kimi's driving style is something that we are evolving in the direction of better performance and use of the car and the package of the car plus the tyres and this, as I said, is a normal and natural process that takes more time."
"The only thing that we can do is work as hard as we can with our development programme," he added. "There will be an important aero package and a few other things. We have an aerodynamic test at Vairano and then in Barcelona before the race. It's up to our competitors to do more than what we are going to do. I cannot make any prediction on what we have to do."
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QUOTE(Kimi warns - Ferrari has made 'considerable' improvement)
08 May 2007
Kimi Raikkonen can't wait to get back on the track at Barcelona, where the Spanish GP will be held on 13th May. After a week of testing at the Circuit de Catalunya, where he set the pace on his two days at the wheel, Raikkonen warned rivals that Ferrari has made a considerable step forward.
"We were able to improve the F2007 considerably, because the new components work really well and the car is now much closer to my style of driving," Raikkonen said. "I'm much more optimistic now: we can attack the best way possible, as my friend Markku Alen usually says. It's true that you never know how competitive you really are compared to the other teams during the test sessions; obviously for that we have to wait for the qualifying and the race; but the lap times give us some hints."
"As I already said over the last weeks, we have to improve the performance in qualifying," he added. "It was not really easy for me to get all the potential out of the car on a single lap, because we never managed to prepare it at the best. Now I'm really happy about the steps forward: although it's really difficult to overtake another car, even when it's slower, it makes things a lot easier when you want to win, when you can start from the front."
Kimi Raikkonen can't wait to get back on the track at Barcelona, where the Spanish GP will be held on 13th May. After a week of testing at the Circuit de Catalunya, where he set the pace on his two days at the wheel, Raikkonen warned rivals that Ferrari has made a considerable step forward.
"We were able to improve the F2007 considerably, because the new components work really well and the car is now much closer to my style of driving," Raikkonen said. "I'm much more optimistic now: we can attack the best way possible, as my friend Markku Alen usually says. It's true that you never know how competitive you really are compared to the other teams during the test sessions; obviously for that we have to wait for the qualifying and the race; but the lap times give us some hints."
"As I already said over the last weeks, we have to improve the performance in qualifying," he added. "It was not really easy for me to get all the potential out of the car on a single lap, because we never managed to prepare it at the best. Now I'm really happy about the steps forward: although it's really difficult to overtake another car, even when it's slower, it makes things a lot easier when you want to win, when you can start from the front."
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like i said before,do more reading...u dont have to be engineer to know this
Added on July 10, 2007, 11:56 pm
QUOTE(BuFung @ Jul 10 2007, 11:41 PM)
totally anti-kimi and non fact talking...
Kimi flatted the tyre because he "over cook" the corner?? go n find that race and watch again la...
beside, seem you have a better judge than Kimi or even the McLaren team that time.. you seem to know Kimi sure blow his suspension that time.. that is Kimi "tidak apa" attitude?? Do u still remember how long Kimi carry on with his car that race before the suspension cannot sustain? You know which lap the suspension blow??
come one.. talk fact here..
simple,why montoya don't have that problem?...n why only that left suspension broken? there is 4 suspension rite? n of course all are mostly identicall especially front right n left...Kimi flatted the tyre because he "over cook" the corner?? go n find that race and watch again la...
beside, seem you have a better judge than Kimi or even the McLaren team that time.. you seem to know Kimi sure blow his suspension that time.. that is Kimi "tidak apa" attitude?? Do u still remember how long Kimi carry on with his car that race before the suspension cannot sustain? You know which lap the suspension blow??
come one.. talk fact here..
This post has been edited by TOYO: Jul 10 2007, 11:56 PM
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