Comments on: Ferrari pull covers off new F10 and talk of the championship

By: yer

yer — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:12:43 +0000

yup, i agree u know why? no more ross brawn and rory byrne, so expect the francing horse to be 4th or 5th this year

By: MIke

MIke — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:59:22 +0000

oops yeah, missed that bit in the Autosport write up!

By: rpaco

rpaco — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:55:14 +0000

Martin
I think its about the same height, the pics are from different angles unfortunately. Also there are no pics of the rear at all, so we will have to wait for pics from the test session.

By: Clyde

Clyde — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:39:05 +0000

Yes correct RAj – sorry I was suppose to put the F60 wasn’t designed to exploit the DD.

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:47:38 +0000

Yeah James,

If you can find some info out on that or give us an update it would be great. There is a story on Autosport where Aldo Costa said that he is worried about the interpretation of the double diffuser of some teams.

Thanks.

By: StefMeister

StefMeister — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:05:00 +0000

Its not so much because of the front wing but more the return to slicks.

When they went to grooved tyres in 1998 they found the front tyres needed to be wider to balance out the grip level the tyres were generating as the grooves didn’t generate enought front grip.

Now they have returned to slicks they have to reverse that as the fronts are giving too much grip compared to the rear so there narrowing them again & the width will now be closer to that of the slick tyres we last saw in 1997.

Its a change that was always going to have to be made when F1 returned to slicks.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:50:48 +0000

Hi James,

Could you have a look into these comments still rumbling away about the car not meeting expectations & that a B spec is on its way. I can’t believe this to be true given how different the car is from the 09 & how confident the tech guys sound?

Thanks

By: PaulL

PaulL — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:21:18 +0000

Well, I’m just saying it’s been a year and I’m not used to the change. It’s still aggrevating.
Overally, my strong opinion is that the racing was not improved last year over 2008.

I personally loved the aero bits they’d hang off the cars, I think it made the cars look extra aerodynamic and extra elite as far as racing cars go.

The cars now look like a year 10 science project or a scalectrix simplified model.

Anyway, we’ll have to agree to differ. I would LITERALLY be happy for the teams to design a current GP2 car and run that instead of the current F1 mode.

By: simon

simon — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:17:13 +0000

“it’s clear that already this thing will be faster than any of last years cars”

what on Earth makes you say that? I think that they’ve got to pray that it’s faster, but even Ferrari don’t know yet. Mate, the first test hasn’t happened. It might be an even bigger dog than last year!

Simon.

By: Alexx

Alexx — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:59:45 +0000

Thanks!