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[Caesar]

"less italian parts the car has, it will run better - main rule when you search for a car to buy" - ok it is a joke

what i mean is that when ferrari dominated with schumacher it was due to "dream team" they gathered , mostly the best people in the world for each area of F1 racing.
then after schumi retired they have turned around team policy and decided to make team that will be home (italian ) product.
then we started to see more and more unlogical errors made by ferrari, that we were not used to see from them (2008,2009,2010 season).
i believe that they have realized that it was a bad idea, and when you have big budget that it is normal to buy best of the best, and not to try force home product team idea etc.
they started to employ new professionals because of their ability now and they have admited that they used toyota wind tunnel so i hope that this year they will do better,but...
...i am so skeptical when i see that huge italian flag on rear wing.

[HandyNZL]

The flag is on the rear wing to celebrate 150 years of a united Italy, and also what the 150 in the F150 means.  It has nothing to do with whom they employ, or how much out-sourcing of parts they do.

[Caesar]

HandyNZL, on 31 January 2011 - 03:39 AM, said:

The flag is on the rear wing to celebrate 150 years of a united Italy, and also what the 150 in the F150 means.  It has nothing to do with whom they employ, or how much out-sourcing of parts they do.

i know what it means, croatia has longest border at sea with italy so we are neighbors.
i was refering to ferrary policy in last few seasons without schumi, brown, todt etc.
about flag,when i see it, i see luca di montezemolo and his policy. i don't like him and the way he leads the team.

[Senna's Ghost]

BradSpeedMan, on 29 January 2011 - 07:48 PM, said:

How?Sorry Mike, not trying to rile you but how can you assess that it looks tame when we have'nt seen the other cars and know what we in for. Is it from years of observing F1 cars and detail? Personally, I don't usually know what to make of F1 cars on first impressions....

Agreed.  You can't look at a modern F1 car today and make any assessment of it's capability or potential based on it outward appearance.  The F150 is clearly an evolution from last years car, which wasn't too bad.  Yesteryear visual aerodynamics where good indications of the performace of a car, now all the cars spend some much time in wind tunnels and have CFD programmes churning over every surface and component that they look very similar outwardly.  It is now a case of integration and how well all the constituent parts that go to make up the car work together to get the performance.  Any weakness in any of the main areas (aero, mechanical grip, engine, KERS integration, suspension geometry, tyre management, cooling, packaging) shows up on the stopwatch and it can make a pretty car look like a turd.

[Port-A-Loo]

Perhaps it will be the Ferrari F2011...seen coming from a mile away, here's another F1 lawsuit over names.

[HandyNZL]

Ford would (should) win that if true.  If it is trademarked, then a court would have no other option but to rule in Fords favour.  Cue more venting of hot air from Luca calling Fords pieces of poo that shouldn't be allowed on the road...

[Rainmaster]

What nonsense.

[Caesar]

ferrari will stall lawsuit in court till season is over, and then apologise or something, or if the trial is set on italian court, then they will win.
i have heard that some computer-keyboard manufacturer will also sue them for the use of 'F10' as a last year car name.