Compromise or No-compromise whose to say
Apr 11th, 2007 by MAK
kimi said in his interview that,
“The whole weekend was quite difficult but I think we needed to compromise too many things and we lost too much speed because of those things, but it was one of those weekends where we needed to do what was most important and try to get as many points as we could. We just didn’t have enough speed today and couldn’t do much more.”
While the speed at trap read 301 for kimi and 302 for massa not much difference there, now the question you have to ask yourself is that whether the “compromises” that kimi talks about here really exist or they are just scapegoat for there underachieved results at sepang. Initial feeling is that former more is more close to truth than the later. well i guess really get a better idea about the answer in baharain, this race weekend.
Just to clarify I’m not saying that Ferrari has lost out to Mclaren already, i’m just guessing whether result at sepang, were with there best efforts without any “compromises” or not.
I think its not fair to just compare the speed trap reading to tell if there was any toning down done on the car. Jean Todt admitted after the race that almost a tenth of a second was reduced from the engine’s performance to last the weekend. That being said the gap between the top two teams at Sepang was far more than a tenth.
All in all only Ferrari know what compromise was done and how much it actually effected the result. There is a possibility that this quote was used to get a small physiological advantage over the Silver Arrows… Remember both Mc Laren drivers quoted before the race that Ferrari was far ahead and proved in the race that the gap was now minute, maybe it was Mc Laren trying to make Ferrari feel overconfident…
I have say that because what ever “compromises” they made had to be on the engine so i thought to use speed as a measure, offcourse speed along with RPM information would have given more idea about it, since later information i couldn’t get hold off, so just used speed.
anyways both Ferrari’s where there in top 4 sector timings as well.
one tenth second second loss that he admitted to is think, due to moving floor elimination rather than the “compromises”.
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