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MAlby7,Oct 16 2005, 08:29 PM Wrote:Ferrari was weak this year but we can all remember how many rule changes were made to pick on Ferrari's winning streak.  4 years in a row rules kept getting changed to upset Ferrari's victorious run.  Finnaly they gave up and decided to take a year off from winning.  Like you said we'll see what's in show for next year as the engines will all start from scratch.
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Ferrari was weak this year not because there entire package was weak but one of the most important part of there package was weak and that is in part because Bridgestone this year made some pretty lousy tires for Ferrari. Bridgestone was to fault because they let there relations with most of the F1 teams go into disarray and it cost them big time this year. Michelin on the other hand had it easy as they had 4 of the top F1 teams doing R&D for them and Bridgestone only had Ferrari along with Jordan and Minardi.

I can't wait for next year Honda already ran there V8 and gave out a rough HP figure of around 550-600hp, Even tough there are no turbos in F1 I would expect Honda, Toyota, Williams/Cosworth, McLaren/Ilmor to have an advantage over there rivals for the 1st season at least as they have experience at building V8 race engines in Indy. I also heard a rumour that tire changes might be back in F1 next year so regardless of whatever team you root for it should be an interesting season next year.

Laterz :)