Ferrari technical director Pat Fry admits difficulty the team faces with F2012 – Formula 1 news
Ferrari technical director Pat Fry has admitted that the F2012 is far from being complete at this point.
He said that there have been some areas of concern and the whole system technically has not gelled together like they wanted it to.
Ferrari have been very aggressive with the design of the car, and said that they have looked to get more pace out of the car even if it risks reliability. That is something that might have proved to be a problem for the team as both Felipe Massa and Fernando
Alonso had trouble with the new car during the first pre-season test at Jerez.
Massa said that the car has increased the workload and there are quite a few things that are need to be looked into. Alonso also had some technical issues with the car.
“I'm not happy with where we are at the moment, there's a lot of space for us to improve from where we are,” he conceded. “Reliability wise it's good, performance wise we're OK. We can play around with the performance and improve some corners and some particular
parts of the corner, but I wouldn't say I'm happy yet until we get the whole thing working.”
Ferrari has low on testing days now because there are only three tests before the season began unlike last year when there were four tests prior to the season. Fry admitted that the lower number of testing days is going to pose more problems for the team
as everything is compressed.
He added that the team is trying to find the right balance of the wings of the car, and at the moment the team is trying to figure out different configurations that the car can run under and see which one best suits the car.
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo will be closely monitoring the performance of the new car as he has been very vocal about the need of the team to improve its 2011 showing in the upcoming season.
Pat Fry adding to the situation said, “We're not concentrating on taking the fuel out and trying to set a lap time. We've only got 12 days testing [in total] before the first race, we've got to try and make the most of all the time we've got.”
“We're not concentrating on taking the fuel out and trying to set a lap time,” he added. “We've only got 12 days testing [in total] before the first race, we've got to try and make the most of all the time we've got.”
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