Saturday, February 10, 2007
What do you think of your new car, Fernando?
I like the colours.
Is this the worst possible answer a driver can give? How degrading is it to the engineers and all the work they have put into that car? You simply can't say that, and Alonso should know. It will not take much for the attitude to change from 'wow, we've got the world champion in our team let's build him a great car' to 'who does he think he is coming here telling us what to do?'
Also, Massa says Ferrari and McLaren are behind BMW at the moment? Has he been eating some special pasta, or could it be true?
Is this the worst possible answer a driver can give? How degrading is it to the engineers and all the work they have put into that car? You simply can't say that, and Alonso should know. It will not take much for the attitude to change from 'wow, we've got the world champion in our team let's build him a great car' to 'who does he think he is coming here telling us what to do?'
Also, Massa says Ferrari and McLaren are behind BMW at the moment? Has he been eating some special pasta, or could it be true?
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To be fair to the lad I think he was led to the question by the teams Press Officer (who may have been involved in picking the colours):
Q: What are your thoughts of the colour scheme of the MP4-22?
Alonso: "The MP4-22 looks fantastic, obviously we need to check how the car is from inside, as in how it performs, however from the outside it is without a doubt the best looking car I have ever driven."
Q: What are your thoughts of the colour scheme of the MP4-22?
Alonso: "The MP4-22 looks fantastic, obviously we need to check how the car is from inside, as in how it performs, however from the outside it is without a doubt the best looking car I have ever driven."
Also I am ready for a BMW upset this year. I think there might be something there. I think Honda are doing their usual insane trick of raising expectations beyond belief but BMW are being very quiet.
However remember last year everyone thought the fastest package was Honda from the testing only to find out that it wasn't true once the season started? Well I think the most fundamental difference between a good team and a mega team is what you can do between tests. The mega teams saw the times of the Honda last year at the early tests and figured out how to go faster than the new benchmark. The Honda team went away thinking "Awesome we're going to win" and didn't really do anything.
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However remember last year everyone thought the fastest package was Honda from the testing only to find out that it wasn't true once the season started? Well I think the most fundamental difference between a good team and a mega team is what you can do between tests. The mega teams saw the times of the Honda last year at the early tests and figured out how to go faster than the new benchmark. The Honda team went away thinking "Awesome we're going to win" and didn't really do anything.
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