I'm a little bit desillusioned by this season's Ferrari gear. I really don't like that one-white-arm thing and that beanie looks like a peppermint candy.
I don't mean to be to critical but Ferrari usually have cool gear. And now that they also have a cool model, they could have cashed in on the oportunity.
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quoteAllison: “Kimi is still very strong, incredibly precise”
A good start with Kimi Raikkonen and James Allison on the same wavelength at the end of the second of four days of testing at the Jerez circuit in southern Spain.
“We have obtained some good baselines from which to continue the development of the F14 T,” said the Scuderia’s Technical Director, talking to ferrari.com. “We are working mainly on car reliability and so far, we can claim to be reasonably satisfied because, even though we are talking about a car that’s almost totally new, we haven’t encountered any particular problems. We are also happy with the data parameters we have seen in terms of cooling, as well as those relating to aerodynamic downforce: both of them have matched our expectations.”
Asked for an opinion on Kimi’s second debut in red, Allison had this to say. “He is still the same strong driver, with his usual phlegmatic approach,” added the Englishman with a smile. “It’s difficult for him to get over excited about something, but he gives the engineers the feedback they need to do their job. He might not say much, but he is incredibly accurate when it comes to explain what needs to be done to make the car quicker.”
Allison confessed to not having paid the slightest attention to what the other teams have been doing, therefore he is unable to give an opinion on how competitive the F14 T might be. “There’s too much to do to think about the others. We have to keep an eye on every detail, because it only takes the smallest thing to leave you stranded. Between now and Melbourne, we will have to organise every last detail to be ready for the first race.”
Circuit: Jerez circuit – 4.428 km Driver: Kimi Raikkonen Car: Ferrari F14 T Weather: air temperature 9/14°C, track temperature 10/15 °C. Light rain in the morning, sunny and cloudy in the afternoon. Laps/Kms completed: 47/208 Best time: 1:24.812
Second day of testing at the Jerez de la Frontera circuit for Kimi Raikkonen at the wheel of the F14 T.
Because of the wet start to the day, the morning programme began with the testing requested by Pirelli, relating to development of their wet weather tyres. The Scuderia was quickly able to assess the intermediate tyres, thus making the most of the time remaining and the progressively drying track to begin work on the car in preparation for the afternoon’s programme.
By the end of the day, Raikkonen had managed to complete a total of 47 laps, the fastest in a time of 1.24.812. He continued the task of checking the car’s functionality as well as trying a few set-up changes.
“Every time we go out on track we learn something new” – said Kimi to www.ferrari.com – “This week the times don’t matter and the only thing that does is to do a good number of laps without any problems and fortunately, we have managed that on both days. The team is working hard and at the next test in Bahrain, we will continue to improve.”
Testing continues at this circuit tomorrow, when Fernando Alonso will make his season debut on track.
It does look as if the car has some oversteer, and Gary Anderson mentioned the same thing, although he listed it as fault.
Of course you dont want too much oversteer, but I'd rather see Kimi dealing with oversteer then with understeer. And there are rumours that Ferrari has a longer wheelbase so it will be good if the car is more prone to oversteer.
Some nice word from Allison, it is great that he and Kimi has just worked together.
Snippets from TS. Kimi drove at the afternoon the brake balance tests, Ferrari has only focused on electronic side of the car, not so the performance . Tho Kimi did do a bit of set up work already. Kulta mentions in the blog of his that there is already full steam at the both sides of the garage, Kimis race engineer was selected because he is extremely competitive and straightforward, they just suit to each other with Kimi very well and their co-work started at once with full fire.
Thr Renault engine of the STR stil doesn't sound good and Vergne isn't driving on full power, he is 20 seconds off the pace. And Red Bull hasn't opened their garage yet.
Quote: Appletree wrote in post #114Snippets from TS. Kimi drove at the afternoon the brake balance tests, Ferrari has only focused on electronic side of the car, not so the performance . Tho Kimi did do a bit of set up work already. Kulta mentions in the blog of his that there is already full steam at the both sides of the garage, Kimis race engineer was selected because he is extremely competitive and straightforward, they just suit to each other with Kimi very well and their co-work started at once with full fire.
It is nice for Alonso Kimi has already done the donkey work for two days now Alonso can get mileage and fast times.
I do hope Kimi's side of the team really works for him, and they are not just there to see towards Ferrari's needs.
Me neither..but its going to be interesting to see how it pans out. Kulta mentions also , Kimis softer driving style suits to this car but he reminds Alonso is adaptive. Will see. It looks like Alonso is doing aero work.
Quote: Appletree wrote in post #117Me neither..but its going to be interesting to see how it pans out. Kulta mentions also , Kimis softer driving style suits to this car but he reminds Alonso is adaptive. Will see. It looks like Alonso is doing aero work.
It will certainly be interesting. Yes it does seem like Alonso id doing aero testing.
1. Kevin Magnussen (McLaren-Mercedes) 1m23.276s, 52 laps 2. Felipe Massa (Williams-Mercedes) 1m23.700s, 47 laps 3. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) 1m23.952s, 62 laps 4. Jenson Button (McLaren-Mercedes) 1m25.030s, 40 laps 5. Fernando Alonso (Ferrari) 1m25.495s, 58 laps 6. Nico Hulkenberg (Force India-Mercedes) 1m26.096s, 17 laps 7. Jean-Eric Vergne (Toro Rosso-Renault) 1m29.915s, 30 laps 8. Adrian Sutil (Sauber-Ferrari) 1m30.161s, 34 laps 9. Robin Frijns (Caterham-Renault) No time, 10 laps 11. Max Chilton (Marussia-Ferrari) No time, 5 laps 10. Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull-Renault) No time, 3 laps
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