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[vaptin]

"At the same time, the technical activity has been restructured in three areas: director for the chassis side is Pat Fry, production is in the hands of Corrado Lanzone, while engine and electronics continues with Luca Marmorini. All three report directly to the team principal, Stefano Domenicali."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/formula ... 524957.stm,

This is interesting, its not a straight swap or even a reshuffle, they're restructuring as well.

Brave, intuitively I'd say it seems better to have one single coordinator, rather than three separate guys working on difference areas. The person who has the role of coordination must be Stefano, which is a lot to ask of someone from a non technical background.

The proof will be in the pudding.

[spankyham]

... is Paddy Lowe's name still on the McLaren website?

[What's Burning?]

Sounds as if there is just as much passion as there is reason in making these decision which would be typical. Ferrari are struggling, and the worst thing they can appear to be doing is nothing, but obviously the type of turnaround they're looking for is not going o happen overnight. it's bad enough that they're chasing McLaren, the gap to the Red Bulls is rubbing salt on the wound.

[bud]

... is Paddy Lowe's name still on the McLaren website?

sure is. http://mclaren.com/page/technical-direc ... ren-racing

[F1er]

How long before Flavio replaces Doms?

[What's Burning?]

How long before Flavio replaces Doms?

Not even in jest!

come on, poor Massa... it was bad enough he was told to slow down and let Alonso pass, now you want him to be told to crash for him?

[vaptin]

How long before Flavio replaces Doms?

Not even in jest!

come on, poor Massa... it was bad enough he was told to slow down and let Alonso pass, now you want him to be told to crash for him?

Best use of Massa I can think of. Well, aside from harvesting his organs.

[darwin dali]

Next up: Domenicali

[spankyham]

The people I'd like to see back at Ferrari are #1 Rory Byrne - ok, so he's already back, but, in the F1 area it's supposedly only part time. He's well known for not liking the limelight - dammed hard to avoid in F1, I'm hoping he is already full time on the 2012 car and part of the deal is keeping it very quiet.

The other guy I'd like to see back is Giogio Ascanelli. I heard he was asked and was interested, but wants to honor his contract with STR, which ends this year.

I do like the new aero guy, Nicholas Hennel, he's officially in charge of aeros now. He's the one who fixed the tunnel problems. An all new aero approach has been developed by him and will debut in Canada, I guess that will be our first chance to see what he can do.

For Monaco, I'm actually hoping for a pretty good result here. Things that will help us:-
- No hard compound tyres to deal with
- No high speed aero corners
- Braking is very important (one of our cars strengths)
- If we were able to get ahead it will be hard for others, even with significantly faster cars to pass us

[vlad]

They'll do good in Monaco, for sure!

[spankyham]

Our front wing looks a lot closer to the tarmac in this shot:-

[vlad]

Is that a reason why Massa looks closer to the walls?

[bud]

Not sure id read too much into that photo. Teams run a softer than normal suspension set up added to the fact he was coming over a crest which would have pushed him down pretty low. Monaco isn't the place to judge aero updates.

[What's Burning?]

I like Monaco.

[spankyham]