I want to ask about a story on ESPN:
http://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/127 ... -raikkonen
Arrivabene is quoted as saying: "I remember it was the 10th or 12th of December and I was asking [chief designer] Simone Resta, and Rory [Byrne, Ferrari consultant], we were watching a picture of the car and I said what can you do to transfer the weight of the car a bit more in front?" Arrivabene explained. "Because I said Kimi likes to feel the car in this way and Sebastian [Vettel] is more or less the same.
Question: What does he mean by increasing weight transfer for more grip? My assumption is that kimi prefers very precise steering response at the turn in point. Is he is talking about trail braking to transferring load to the front of the car? I can't really make sense of it.
Here is another quote from ESPN about Raikkonen's driving style from late 2014:
http://en.espn.co.uk/f1/motorsport/story/183913.html
"Since the go-karts, if it doesn't turn and the front doesn't bite I've never liked it. My driving style is more about trying to carry the speed into the corners and keep it up in the mid-corner. It's the way I'm used to doing thing but obviously it changes every year and with every car, but I still think it's the fastest way and when you get the car working for you as you want the fastest maximum speed - for me at least - can be found that way. "
"It's something that's lacking from the car right now and if you cannot put the car where you want and brake where you want because of locking or sliding the front then it becomes a guessing game about where you are going to be. And if you miss a little bit the corner you are going to miss a lot of speed on the next straight. It sounds like a small thing, but around one lap when you keep guessing every corner it creates quite a big deficit. A few races it has been pretty okay and then most races it has been like that where you fight every corner and then the time difference is quite big."
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