quote“This was another very difficult race for me, despite having gone in a different direction yesterday to try and improve the performance. Unfortunately, it did not bring the improvements I’d hoped for and again here I found myself fighting the handling of the car.
At the start I made up one place, but already on the second lap I began to have a problem with the brakes overheating and this meant I had to slow down. At the time of my first pit stop, my tyres were completely worn and on my in-lap alone I lost two places. We should definitely have stopped sooner. Compared to the start of the season, progress has been made, even if there’s still a lot to do as our speed still doesn’t allow us to fight for the top places.
But they made improvements which might be encouraging.
Enjoy your last day together )
"Walk on, through the wind, Walk on, through the rain, Though your dreams be tossed and blown. Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart, And you'll never walk alone, YOU`LL NEVER WALK ALONE!!!"
There isn't much we can do other than to continue to support Kimi and hope he can turn around his performances. It seems like the development of the car may be growing away from Kimi. It's hard to know for sure. I know Austria is a track he seemed to go well at earlier in his career.
This is turning out to be a difficult year. And Ferrari's strategies are not helping Kimi at all lately. I hope everything improves.
Translation from Italia Lorenzo De Luca @LorenzoDL83 6 Min. #Kimi 's F14-T related issues explained today on @Gazzetta_it http://tmblr.co/ZAF-Ys1JabhC6
quoteEasy to say now that Kimi Raikkonen in red is a bad copy of that admired in the past two years at Lotus. Useless being as a defeatists taking it for boiled and pulling out the comparison (merciless) with team-mate Fernando Alonso. In fact, behind and within the crisis of the Finnish there are reasons (mainly technical) much thinner. It is true, to count the points collected so far by Raikkonen in eight races, there would be almost to regret the former Felipe Massa, dropped for his lack of results. But the faults are not all of Kimi.
BRAKING
Is the sameFerrari to emphasize, convinced that it is the car to have to improve, to meet the driving needs of Raikkonen, whose talent is considered out of debate and whose contract (two seasons with an option for a third in favor the driver) makes him a important pawn for the future. There is nothing wrong in the soldier Kimi. Simply “Iceman” can not express himself on the F14 T. It became clear from winter testing in Bahrain, where he had been targeted by technical problems, and discomfort emerged (visually) from the first race in Melbourne, with the Finnish victim of repeated locking of the front wheels under braking. It was the consequence, not the cause of the problems, and Raikkonen continued to repeat it in recent months, noting that the new electronic system “brake by wire” had nothing to do. Not even the head, nothing to do with psychology, because Kimi is a type of combative character that can not be demoralized.
CORNERING
What are then, is the reason for the troubles? A mixture of factors. First, the lack of confidence when cornering. Is linked both to the behavior of the Ferrari, and the tires taken this year, which are harder than in the past. Raikkonen was a wizard to manage the old Pirelli, as on the occasion of wins in Abu Dhabi 2012 and Melbourne in 2013, while he does not succeed with the current compounds. However, since the tires are the same for all, the real problem is the adaptation with the F14 T. A very different car than the Lotus, whose strengths were in traction and in downforce, those in which Ferrari is lacking. The feeling with the red in fact it is not bloomed. Raikkonen does not “feel” the front of the car, the limit of the grip, and this doesn’t allows him to “attack” the corners as he would like. A problem compounded by the lack of stability of Ferrari in the braking phase, which contributes to the locking of the wheels. Thus, when trying to push into the corner, Raikkonen is often locking the tires or he is not accurate. As we have seen on Saturday’s qualifying in Zeltweg, when he came long twice at 1st corner. Whilst in the race, he was affected by the overheating of the brake system and electrical components. In addition to a too late first stop, in an attempt to avoid the traffic, which caused him to destroy tires.
SUSPENSION
But how can Ferrari be improved, meeting at the same time, Raikkonen needs? It is not easy. Because the behavior could be related to the particular geometry of the pull rod front suspension, which should be dropped in 2015.
i feel Kimi did his best. based on the fact that he did not forget how to drive, and seeing his car jiggle almost every time at turn one, i think its not an easy car to drive. a finnish friend said that kimi said the car is totally suited to alonso. i'll see if i can get the source...
Print view
Mon Jun 23, 2014 8:22 am
reply
)
