wickedz50 wrote: ↑12 Jun 2022, 14:37
Andi76 wrote: ↑12 Jun 2022, 14:31
Its really a shame. Finally Ferrari has a great car again, probably the fastest car, but the fastest car is not enough to win the championship. Fighting for a F1 Championship is only possible if you are perfect in every area. Ferrari is not there yet, obviously. Race Pace, Race Strategy, Reliability, organisation are still areas where Ferrari has to improve. They need to keep a methodical approach to gain the last few percentages you need to win a F1 Championship. Unfortunalety, as only the F1-75 is a car as fast as the Red Bull, 2022 championship will not be a close fight and an easy one for Red Bull. But anyway - as porpoising was back in Baku and Ferrari was affected- i assume the reliability issues may probably have something to do with that, as there were totally different problems with Ferrari and Ferrari supplied parts in teams who also had porpoising. At the end of the day Binotto was right to say that the goal for 2022 is not winning the championship. Ferrari still needs to improve in several areas, after years of bad management.
I sometimes ask the question that does the porpoising effect the PU in a negative way? is porpoising a big reason for the PU failure? does this mean that Merc is running the car/PU in conservative manner to avoid these type of failures with their PU?
I am scratching my head here.
Never mind whatever expectations were there from Ferrari for 2022 its over now.
First i would not say its over now. Its still a long way to go and many races left. And things can change very fast in F1. But to be honest - i do not really expect Ferrari really to challenge Red Bull. The team itself and the organisation is not at the top-level yet. But the car is fast, probably faster than the Red Bull, so if Ferrari is able to improve in the areas they are lacking - evetything is still possible, even if i have my doubts that they will be able to improve in these areas as fast as they need to challenge Red Bull for the title.
If porpoising finally is the root of the reliability problems at Baku - only Ferrari can tell this after they analysed all the failures. But porpoising and the oscilations are definetely not something thats good from the reliability point of view. Porpoising can cause a clamp to get loose what can result in a failure in the hydraulic system for sure. It probably can cause vibrations with negative effects on the ICE and other components of the powertrain. But at the end of the day only Ferrari can tell if porpoising, quality control, a supplier, a mechanic or a design or construction problem is to blame for the failures.
As Ferrari had several different reliability problems one can only hope that porpoising caused all of them - because if is not - its nothing that can be fixed untill Canada.
