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http://www.wheels24.co.za/Content/Fo..._for_Raikkonen
Kimi Raikkonen will work with a new race engineer in 2009. Ferrari's team principal Stefano Domenicali told the Italian newspaper La Stampa that Chris Dyer, the Finn's engineer this year, is moving up to a new role in charge of track engineering. ? what is track engineering. |
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Either that or they managed to find a really good Finnish F1 level engineer. It was because the development of the car went more in favour of Massa. I heard a strong rumour to changes to brakes, which Kimi simply couldn't heat up, hinting to his often fastest lap of race, but slow one lap performances in qualifying and beginning of the races. Notice, how his performances did start to improve near the end again, where he even beat Massa (in performance anyway) at China. I heard that Ferrari reverted back developments they'd done for just Kimi car. No sources for the eagle eyed though sorry, I'm just recalling from what I read over course of the season. |
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Without a doubt, he had same engineer (as far as I'm aware) in 2007, and beginning of 2008 where he looked set to dominate. Towards the end of the year they did revert to some older parts on Kimi's car (like removing the shark fin) because, though they gave greater overall downforce, they moved the centre of pressure rearwards and exagerated the understeer. |
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His poor qualy performance was nothing to do with the brakes as far as I'm aware. The whole design felosphy of this years car gave it an understeery characteristic that suited Massa and not Kimi, it would take him several laps to get the tyres up to full working tempreture. As I said, I heard on several occassions that it was the brakes, though I ain't going to research a link for you (as finding something so detailed could take me a while), I definately heard this, about how the summer development of the car went against Kimi driving style. |
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