Alonso says Ferrari’s pace confirms progress

26 comments on “Alonso says Ferrari’s pace confirms progress”

1. 

   f1andy83
   22nd July 2011, 17:40

   Looking forward to an exciting race.
2. 

   Fixy (@)
   22nd July 2011, 17:43

   Alonso said Ferrari’s pace at Hockenheim was the result of progress made over several races

   Maybe Silverstone? Or even Nurburgring. Certainly not Hockenheim.
   1. 

      daykind (@)
      22nd July 2011, 20:35

      Although isn;t it interesting that for the last two years, Ferrari’s pace has come back at Silverstone.
   2. 

      Eggry (@eggry)
      23rd July 2011, 6:24

      pace at Hockenheim 2010 :D
3. 

   Cacarella
   22nd July 2011, 17:44

   I guess what everyone is missing is that it seems Williams is the team hit hardest by the ban (or non-ban) of the OTBD.
4. 

   Atticus
   22nd July 2011, 17:54

   Strange things happen.

   Webber is quicker than Vettel and by the looks of the speed trap figures he’s on a completely different setup.

   Both Red Bulls are on the front end of the speed trap classification which is not the standard for the car with highest downforce level of the grid.
   1. 

      electrolite (@electrolite)
      22nd July 2011, 18:04

      If anything this means they will be able to retain plenty of downforce even with setups favouring straight line speed. Fundamentally, the RB7 has tons of downforce so if you set the Ferrari up exactly the the same, the suspension, the wings, everything – you could bet your bottom dollar the Red Bull would still have the better grip.
5. 

   MVEilenstein (@mveilenstein)
   22nd July 2011, 17:57

   3kph faster than the highest top speed seen here in 2009.

   I’m sure Charlie Whiting will find a way to prevent that in 2012.
6. 

   Todfod
   22nd July 2011, 18:02

   There are some really worrying signs for Ricciardo. Its ok to be trailing Liuzzi, but when Karthikeyan is 6 tenths quicker than you, then the future doesn’t seem too bright.

   I’m really looking forward to quali tomorrow. I’m expecting the toughest fight for pole we have had thus far.
7. 

   DaveW
   22nd July 2011, 18:31

   Alonso better get F1Fanatic up on his iPhone. It looks here like, despite being quick early in the stint, it looks like RBR is just going to run away in the end. Webber looks very steady for the whole stint.
8. 

   stato77
   22nd July 2011, 18:32

   As much as it pains me to say it, I think it is soon going to be time for McLaren to start thinking about next season.

   The only hope they have for this season is that Alonso can set the cat amongst the Pigeons and hope that Vettel makes some silly mistakes under pressure.

   Ferrari have made a massive leap forward and Red Bull look like they are making steady incremental gains.

   Mercedes update for Silverstone looks like it has nearly leapfrogged McLaren in terms of 1 lap pace.

   Time for a technical shake up methinks!
   1. 

      infy (@infy)
      22nd July 2011, 19:44

      Thats the difference between Ferrari fans and the rest. We dont burn down the village very time our team falls behind a bit.

      I think you also need to consider which tracks suit the drivers and teams. The teams were quick on the same tracks as last year. The ups and downs are pretty consistent.

      Alonso for instance is normally very quick in the second half of the season because those are the tracks he enjoys. Massa on the other hand is always pretty good on the first few circuits in the year, but struggles from the half way point and on. Mark probably has a trend too, but I’m not bothered to look it up.
      1. 

         stato77
         22nd July 2011, 20:06

         “Thats the difference between Ferrari fans and the rest. We dont burn down the village very time our team falls behind a bit.”

         No your correct, Luca does that himself!
         1. 

            infy (@infy)
            22nd July 2011, 21:13

            I dont see how, but okay :)
9. 

   Fer no.65
   22nd July 2011, 19:19

   3rd year in a row they have been playing the “catching up” game and have succeded.Regardless of their pace come sunday’s race, it’s impressive how quickly they improved.

   I was paying so much attention to Red Bull and Mclaren and bang! there goes Ferrari and starts setting the pace on sundays.
10. 

    Becken
    22nd July 2011, 19:57

    I was reading what Fernando have said at James Allen’s blog and is clear that, between lines, he was digging into Aldo Costa:

    “We had brought a lot of new parts, some of which worked and others that did not.

    “Then in the last four or five races, every new part we brought has worked fine, which is definitely good news, not just for this year but for future development for next year.

    I am very, very confident in the car, the engine and all our designers are very motivated now, knowing that everything they did, working day and night is producing good results on Sunday.”

    Certainly there was some internal frictions and it looks like Fernando was a strong voice asking for change and I don’t think that with out him, Ferrari could have hired Pat Fry.

    It is clear that Fry is behind F150 sudden improvement.

    What we are looking this season is Fernando doing a Schumacher and turning Ferrari into a winning team again.

    What a great drive
    1. 

       Becken
       22nd July 2011, 19:59

       What a great DRIVER!
       1. 

          mike
          22nd July 2011, 20:07

          absolutely
    2. 

       UKfanatic (@)
       23rd July 2011, 1:09

       sorry to disagree, we simply cant know how much imput does a man have, we like to believe that there are some engineers that are miraculous but that is probably not 100% true, for some reason an F1 team has thousands of employees. I like him he must be a very good enginneer that isnt in question and he must have a bigger role that he did in mclaren, but we dont know anything basicly. However we can speculate and on this matter i believe you are right Ferrari has been showing an increase pace since his takeover, and I hope it stays that way and that Fry finds what he wants and be as succesfull as possible, there are alot of british enginners working for Ferrari, we just cant feel betrayed we should feel proud; and I dont know if you all know but Ferraris chassis has been developed in britain since the early 90’s (by memory, maybe even before) Im sure he doenst feel alone and maybe even more motivated than in woking, at least he features every week on Ferrari special news videos.
11. 

    Chris Setzer
    22nd July 2011, 20:08

    Hey guys don’t know if anybody noticed yet but:

    Alonso said Ferrari’s pace at Hockenheim was the result of progress made over several races: “I’ve said it before, it’s not a case of a miracle having happened at Silverstone, because of the regulations relating to the exhausts. That result was down to the many improvements introduced race after race, as could be seen from the fact that, even from Monaco, we had returned to a good level in terms of being competitive and here too, where we are back to the Valencia rules, we are at the front end of the field.”

    Shouldnt that be nurburgring? Insteaf of hockenheim
    1. 

       Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
       22nd July 2011, 23:16

       Damn, I knew that would catch me out at some point this weekend! Have changed it, thanks.
12. 

    dfketr
    22nd July 2011, 21:19

    maybe mclaren are sandbagging a little bit?? the speed trap times for their cars are not where they usually line up in the speed trap pecking order. maybe more fuel today?
13. 

    juan fanger (@juan-fanger)
    23rd July 2011, 1:24

    Both Alonso and Vettel showed similarly consistent tyre performance over their longest stints, each of eight laps.

    From your graphs Webber was faster than both during his thirteen lap stint, and was still lapping faster than either had managed in their stints even after ten laps.
    Would be nice if WEB can maintain that for qualifying & race and let ALO and VET squabble for the crumbs :)
    1. 

       F1fan55
       23rd July 2011, 3:54

       Yeah, it certainly looks good for Webber here.
14. 

    Faisal
    23rd July 2011, 6:06

    Alonso’s 1s deficit to Webber in FP2 graph is scary !
15. 

    Sam3110
    23rd July 2011, 8:36

    I’m not sure if it is just me, but the colours for the end of the grid seem wrong, Ricciardo is purple like Buemi, D’ambrosio is the same green as Di Resta, and both Glock and Liuzzi are dark grey?

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