4/18/2023 0 Comments Ferrari f1 2017![]() My own opinion is that Ferrari will be even closer this year, Renault will too, and Honda lagging a bit behind them. Remember in Monza when they started using safer oils? If they are approaching the edge of where the current technology takes them in the performance/reliability equation then power increases will become less effective from now on. Merc's reliability, at least where Hamilton was concerned, wasn't perfect by any means. We're not going to overwork our first race specification and we will have a plan to do things in a sensible manner." ![]() We're already seeing that we will have a good step into next season to start with. 2017 is key to making sure that the next step that we make into next year is the right one, which we are 99% sure of. At some point, performance will be converging because of the nature of the regulations. "We're not going to bring half a second every single winter and through a season. "It's now a matter of time because next year is going to be the year in which we see the, not the last step of progress, but the last step that we can actually really see," he said. It's fair to say that '18 should be the year where we should level everything."Īs performance continues to converge amid stable engine regulations, Taffin believes the gains manufacturers can make over the winter are diminishing. "We know more or less where they are and we can see we can get there. "I don't think we will close the gap this winter, though I I don't know, but the target is to be very close by the end of next year because the target was to be in a position in '18 to fight somehow with these guys," Taffin told Autosport. Otherwise you might as well condemn the Merc engine as a POS based on Manors performance. Don't try judging the quality if the engine by a poor team effort, when there are examples of teams running near the front with the same engine. In previous seasons the Renault wasn't the most powerful, but had better fuel economy meaning they could run the car lighter which gave it an advantage.Īs far as the Renault team go, the car wasn't designed for the Renault engine and they have struggled with the chassis. MB don't have a patent on the configuration they are using or the combustion chamber design (others may though, Mahle?) so it will be interesting to see if the others copy MB. You can bet on one thing next year, MB have not stood still and will have added power to the PU which means that their competitors have first to get to where MB was this year then add even more to be anywhere near them, not much hope of that methinks. ![]() What trumps HP in an F1 besides a good spread of torque? Renault appear to have neither compared to MB, their own works team can't make the present motor a viable thing so that says a lot. Interestingly not much is known about Mercedes yet.Įdited by Marklar, 27 December 2016 - 09:55. With the removal of the token system new engine concepts apparently also for Ferrari & of course Honda. When asked how much of a gamble it was for Renault to deliver an all-new concept of engine next year, Abiteboul said: "It is a good question. So it is a choice that we are not making for the start of the season but we are definitely making for the long term." "Clearly I am not going to disclose anything, but we are super excited by the level of innovation that this new platform offers. We have lot of ideas of concepts in the pipelines – most of them, as far as I am aware, have not been seen at the track. "But definitely it is an engine that is offering the potential to cope with an awful lot of development. "I prefer to be conservative in the expectation for the first initial running of the engine at the start of the season," explained Abiteboul. In an exclusive interview with, Abiteboul revealed that Renault's plan included the use of technology not seen in F1 before, but such bold concepts would not be ready for the start of the 2017 season. Renault has warned its teams to not expect a dramatic step forward in engine power for the start of 2017, with radical concepts from its all-new power unit only likely to deliver proper gains later in the campaign.
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