Ferrari Unhappy with Testing Results

We have been following the performance of the cars at Formula 1 testing over the past several days. It seems that Ferrari is unhappy with its results during this test at Jerez. In three days the team has never been above sixth in the fastest teams, and it was unable to improve its times yesterday compared to Wednesday. 

Ferrari has admitted to Autosport that the new car is not performing as well as it had hoped. However, there is still more testing before the season begins on March 15. 

"I think there is a lot of room for us to improve from where we are. Reliability wise it is good. Performance wise I think we are okay, but we can play around with the performance and improve [the car in] some corners and some particular parts of the corner, but I would not say I am happy yet until we get the whole thing working," said technical director Pat Fry.

Ferrari is using a pull-rod front suspension on the car this year that gives the car a small aero benefit and center of gravity benefit. However, the new suspension is a little more difficult to set up. Hence, the problem that Ferrari is having.

"We are working through a reasonably large matrix here, so on each run we are trying almost a different configuration. There is a lot of analysis here and then back at the factory. We are using the simulation and the simulator to make sure everything ties in, so we can put the right package together," said Fry.  

Counting today, the teams still have 12 days of testing before the season begins. 

Source: Autosport