Mercedes are the biggest pushers for more durability for the new tyres + wider rears to help cope with their engine torque. Might be why Rosberg is chucking Messages out on twitter...
Ermmm... Well they gave their presentation, but unless I missed it they didn't actually have a engine to show, only CGI engines... I've seen this but to be honnest it looks very suspect. please log in to view this image
Still haven't seen this Ferrari engine, apart from that the lizard men got to see this imaginary object!
How cute, the Italian papers trying to bring up the Tifosi's hopes up by trying to make out that RBR haven't: 'been involved with the Renault engines design from day 1, funded it and demanded them to become the works team now that Infiniti are working with them, increase the engine price on purpose to muscle out the competition like Lotus for example, and that Renault are not designing the engine exclusively for Red Bull' (though they actually are in all those cases...) Congratulations Ferrari you're only a year behind Renault and Mercedes engines with regards to promotion and completion... Don't let me ruin your party though!
Will be interesting to see what happens if one of the engines is at a major disadvantage to the others. With the rules so tight all three of them have to basically build the same engine so in theory they shouldn't be to far apart. Still got my fingers crossed for a good mix. One engine a beast of power, one more efficient and one a good all rounder. See different teams showing strengths at different tracks and different parts of the race.
I think efficiency's the most important aspect next year. There's been talk of the cars having much more power than grip and possibly still fishtailing halfway up the straight following a traction zone. There's no point having huge amounts of power if you can't put it down. I think starting the race with less fuel will be far more beneficial, especially on the tracks where they're struggling to do the race on the 100 litre fuel limit. I do hope the cars and engines have different characteristics though. It's far more interesting when the pecking order changes between Saturday and Sunday. I think the first half a dozen races will be fantastic when the teams don't really know the best way to approach the race. The development race should keep the rest of the season interesting.
No issues in the 80's when they had blowers the size of dinner plates and bugger all downforce! I hope they are tricky to control so a drivers skill with his right foot comes back into it again and they can't just plant it on the exit of a corner. Hopefully with all the torque they'll now have to properly feed in the power to stop the back end coming round.
I'm guessing next year's engines will have more power than the 80's (no idea what they actually had then), the big difference though is that they're hybrids now, they've got a big dollop of extra power and it's available at low revs.
Ferrari forced to deny there is nothing wrong with their engine http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/111919 So, no problems at all then and they're concerned for the sport, not themselves......... good for them
Ferrari's lightweight 'exotic material' revealed! [NSFW]WOOD! please log in to view this image The first engine able to be recycled and turned into a wooden table for IKEA! Ferrari have outdone themselves this time.[/NSFW]
They had up to 1400bhp in quali (5.5bar boost!) and around 950bhp in race trim! Bring back the old days!!
