Team: Pat Fry (TD), Nikolas Tombazis (CD), Stefano Domenicali (MD)
Drivers: Fernando Alonso (5), Felipe Massa (6)
The new wing features larger flaps and new endplates, and was seen as a key development as Fernando Alonso attempts to hold on to his world championship lead. But after initial tests on Friday in Singapore, the team reverted to the original wing design. Ferrari's race operations manager Diego Ioverno said the team was still analysing what to do for the rest of the event. "It was taken off in the afternoon, after we had done the tests," he told reporters in the Singapore paddock. "We wanted to do a comparison with the other wing, the one that we could call the baseline. "The numbers are still under investigation. At the moment I cannot say if we are going to use it or not. "We finished the session with the other wing, so it may happen that we stay with the baseline one." Asked if he was worried that this meant another Ferrari development had proved ineffective on track, Ioverno replied: "I think it is quite a common aspect for all the teams."We have no possibility to track-test the stuff, we rely on the windtunnel numbers and for everyone when you bring something on the track it might not be working as expected, so obviously it is not a pleasure if it happens.
"It is a bit of a concern also for the future, but it is something that we have to face as everyone has to face because we have this limitation on testing. "I cannot say that we are happy for sure, but we are not desperate." Loverno was still cautiously optimistic about Ferrari's Singapore form, with Alonso third-fastest in practice two using the old wing.
"I think on Friday it is normally very difficult to understand what is going on, because of fuel load and track conditions," Ioverno said. "I think that we have to understand what everyone has to understand, which is the real life of the tyres. How the drivers look after the tyre? "We are still analysing the data, but it seems with one of the two compounds we are not in bad shape, but I think the major factor will be how long the tyres will last and we will learn it only on Sunday, I guess."
It is true that Ferrari is suffering with the BAN on in season testing."We tried various new components on the car: some seem to be positive, others less so, but maybe in the case of the latter, we need to spend a bit more time for them to be developed as well as possible," he said.
After attending the Young Driver Testing, I became a bit optimistic about their prospect in this race and the upcoming ones, as in tradition Ferrari is heavily dependent [more than most of the teams] on on-track testing, but in that test F2012 apparently didn't bring any significant updates. Which is a big surprise for me caz Alonso and others from Ferrari is always telling that they are going to bring a significant updates package for Singapore and onwards. So logically testing them in Young Driver Test can give them huge valuable data.diffuser wrote:Yep, not good ....
I guess, since there was testing last week, we'll see benefits from that. That being said, it's gonna take a month before we start seeing pieces based on that testing.
Bomber_Pilot wrote:If you look at the pictures posted by F1.Ru on the previous page, they were definitely trying three different rw yesterday.
I thought fully enclosed holes in the floor were banned since Monaco?stefan_ wrote:
ferrari have mentioned long ago that pull-rod was not the issue of why the car underperforms at some tracks and that i personally think that maybe there is something wrong with it fundametally and knowing Ferrari they will fix all these issues in the next year's single seater.alogoc wrote:could front pull-rod stiffnes be the cause of poor performance here whit all the high kerbs?
anyone have news about engines usage?
