james Allen

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Alonso integrated into Ferrari and ready to go
Posted on | January 13, 2011 | by | 73 Comments

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One detail point worth making is that Alonso has had a chance to make changes to the driveability and user friendliness of the car for this season. When he went to McLaren in 2007 he had signed a year in advance which mean he had plenty of input to the car and changed the wing mirrors to a place he could see them, regardless of aero penalty. He also insisted that the cooling be able to allow the car to stand at the pit exit for a minute, because he felt that would be an important advantage in getting clear track in qualifying.

Veamos una interesante información acerca de la habilidad de Alonso para hacer el set-up del monoplaza.
La acción se desarrolla a finales de 2006 en Jerez, Alonso con un casco blanco probaba por primera vez un McLaren MP4-21 sin ningun logotipo, un miembro del departamento técnico de la FIA presente en el acto nos cuenta lo que vió y escucho en declaraciones recogidas por el prestigioso periodista Edward Gorman:


"I want to told you about some moments I lived inside the McLaren box during the first time Alonso ran the car on winter 2006 at Jerez.

First time out on track in the morning, I remember Alonso wore a white helmet and overalls, and it was like a couple of laps later when Alonso came back and went into the box directly. He went out of the car and and said to his engineer that "This is not a car, this is a lawnmower" (clearly he is no PR, isn't it?) I felt shocked by that words as I thought everybody inside the box could hear him.

Then he sat with him and rewiewed all the set-up the car had at the moment, the only words I clearly listened were that he wanted the car xx milimeters down at the front. There where so many set-up changes suggested by him that everybody around thought that he was very wrong, but he looked to suggest exact changes in degrees or milimetres for everything.

Next time out on track the car changed like a miracle, and at the end of the day the times had been improved a lot, I thougth to remember that he had been quicker than the testing times of Kimi/Pedro/JPM that year but I'm not sure enought of this data.

The whole team was highly impressed with him that day, as well as the FIA personnel around".


Preguntado por como hacen el set-up habitualmente los equipos, esta es su respuesta:


"Usually as a team, it is ideal to have identical set-up on both cars, as it doubles the input data for a set-up, but every driver asks for his own detail mods as his driving is ever sligthy different to the other.

Of course both cars shares data in every team.

The usual proccess to set-up a new car is as following: first the designers draw a basic line, then is tested and modified on the simulator, and later is tried by the testers and drivers.
Normally the corrections made by the testers/drivers allow for further developments and to fine tuning the set-up in real track conditions, as ther are variables no able to reproduce on paper or the simulators.

Only in a very rare cases the set-up is changed completely by the testers/drivers, and it is due to mistakes in the basic set-up when some data believed true was not (correlations with wind tunnels and so on)".

© Edward Gorman

Fuente: FA - Thef1