Quietness = hard work going on.

The residue from their depression last season. Ever since the fanboys ran AFCA off the forum, the Ferrari thread is bereft of information and facts are scarce.



Or the calm before the storm in having again made a dog of a car? Who knows?

Yep sadly this is the truth, i also aren't as active in this thread anymore since that happened.

Domenicali is covering in: "We have worked hard during the past months and we will have to keep doing it during the season, which will be long, with 19 races. We need to avoid getting anxious from the first race if things don't work well from the start."

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81066

It's obvious that they don't expect much from the car in the first races...

This was the impression I was getting from my pseudo psychoanalysis of this article. Lets hope we are wrong.

Ferrari wasted half of last season to get a head start; I really don't understand how they can make another dud.

Interesting quote in Tony Dodgin's journal piece this week regarding the Type 056H

http://www.autosport.com/features/article.php/id/2604

exactly AFCA was a good source of info. Pity the idiots here pissed him off

Is it me or Ferrari lost "Alice" as a sponsor?!

It does not appear (sidepods/side plates of the front wing) on the new Santander livery.

this has been discussed to death. it was not 'idiots' that pissed him off, it was him posting tons copyrighted material. you cant just post someone's newspaper article and scan it to the website.

he was great source no doubt but once again it was copyrighted material that forced him leave.

I think so, because when Ferrari site was working (it isn't right now, dunno why ), Alice wasn't mentioned on Sponsors list.



Very interesting, but FIA shouldn't allow any changes - c'mon, our engine is almost bulletproof. After problems with V8 at the very beggining, engines failed only AFAIR at Suzuka 2006, then thrice in Australia 2008 (but it was very hot and Ferrari asked FIA after race to change some parts to improve reliability) and in Hungary and Valencia, but that was caused by batch of faulty parts. I don't know why FIA should listen to these requests, because since 1,5 year, there wasn't any problem in that aspect .

It would be nice for the cars to be weighed pre-race next season.

cing what alonso could do with that dud R29, im sure that even if its not the fastest, he will manage something graceful with it....

Well if there are 2 or 3 teams with clearly better cars, he won't be able to do big miracles... podiums or even a few wins maybe, with some luck, but that's not what he's aiming for...
I guess if the car is not among the two fastest, there's no hope of the championship, remember that the drivers sitting in the rival cars are not exactly bad either....

i just cant believe Ferrari screws up this year, they are to good and with all that development time. On the other hand if they do, i think its safe to say they have a management problem, because then clearly the wrong people are in the wrong positions.

^
i agree
but what i meant was if ferrari have the 3rd or 4th fastest car(2nd best) at the beginning of the season

i would really be surprised if ferrari fail to deliver this season

Well, let's hope so!
Even though I'm not a Ferrari tifoso, I'm rooting for Alonso so of course I want the car to be as good as possible...

What time CET will be presentation on thursday? Thanks in advance.

Yes, everybody knows that italians talk using their hands and arms to support verbal communication.
So it they are working, their arms are busy and they can't walk the talk.

The reason why he is NOT here any more is...

Because he got a job at Ferrari..?

From Sunday in some local karting circuit.

The helmet of the driver behind Alonso has the worst choice of colours I've never seen.

+1. I need to know what time to get outta bed

He knew too much, they obviously needed to eliminate him.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81079

So 10.30 CET, I hope I'll be able to watch it!

Seriously, were is afca, anyone knows. About his knowledge. He had lots of good information, but it was NOT insider, he read all the italian, german and english media. And many times he published it as his own knowledge. But i could live with that because he delivered so much information. And it is a loss he is not here any more.

He was a real benefit to this BB. And not just with Ferrari info.

You could live with it, but that made autosport liable

Guys, can we please leave the discussion of posters past and present. Back on topic if you will.

should be great!

I think it's mightily early to start too much talk about how good or not Ferrari's 2010 car is going to be. I remember in 2004 a lot of talk about Ferrari finally tripping up. Then there was *that* Imola test.

Then again there are years like last year where it looked pretty good. Then the Brawn rocked up.

Basically until the final tests we don't really know what's what. So I look forward to next week with eager anticipating.

Frankly I hope Ferrari produce an utter rocketship, it will make my life a bit easier :-)

Really ? not Worried about the Barron's chances in that case ? I personnaly feel that the 2005-2008 cycle is all over again, so the 2010 car will be as good as the 2006 one, good car but not a rocket.

this year we won't really know till Q2 at sakhir. +/- 200kg of fuel onboard...

Same here go Tifosi!!

We Mclaren fans suffered big time pre-season testing last year. Now that was an ordeal. The car was a complete dogs breakfast. Hamilton managed to salvage some pride in Melbourne, then came lie-gate. If Ferrari produce a dog, there's always 2011. You just want to hope the rumours aren't true.

Last year it looked pretty good? First Bahrain tests showed times similar to Toyota and BMW where tests in Bahrain previous year (2008) times were about one second better than Toyota with famous Trulli words: "Ferrari already won it" (http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/20/trulli-predicts-ferrari-will-win-2008-f1-title/).

The Baron almost certainly would have no chances in such a case That doesn't bother me so much to be honest. Michael's got nothing to prove. It would make my life easier if he had no hope in hell of the title and could just go around wiping the floor with Rosberg, Vettel and Hamilton while the Ferrari drivers ran and hid fighting for the WDC between themselves.

That's my ideal scenario tbh.

Worst scenario is Mercedes v Ferrari in a duel to the death. That could get very very very ugly. And that's just in the forums

18 hours to launch and Ferrari site is already almost dead .

its going to be broadcast online..... yeah baby.. bring out the red devil

and I'm having an exam tommorow. What a shit worth life.

Very well said!!!!!!!

http://forums.autosport.com/index.php?s=&a...t&p=4096251

Can we please move on from this now - It is not the place to discuss other posters.

I talked with my friend he read somewhere that photographers will not be allowed to participate in the F2010 unveiling. Perhaps Ferrari is hiding something?

Forza Ferrari

Hiding something you say?

Oompa Loompa's under the shell pushing it around maybe? ;) hehe sorry couldnt resist

edit: Im actually looking forward to it 2

Never seen such a downbeat run up to a Ferrari launch, maybe it's for the best after last year. BTW in the official presser it says 'media from all over the world will attend' so I don't think that those previous rumours are true.

Don't expect too much from the launch car. Ferrari is said to launch it with the 2009 F60 front and rear wing.

Possibly due to the large contingent hyper-fanatic Kimi fans being absent?

that without doubt plays a big role for sure