Autosport.com is reporting that Ferrari have played down the significance of their ‘hole in the nose’ design, insisting other aerodynamic developments on their car are just as important in helping the speed of the F2008.The Maranello-based team were the centre of attention during testing at Barcelona in Spain last week when they ran the much-rumoured [...]

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Autosport.com is reporting that bringing Fernando Alonso to Ferrari to partner world champion Kimi Raikkonen would not be desirable, team president Luca di Montezemolo said on Tuesday.Alonso denied this month that he had an escape clause in his contract with struggling Renault that might allow him to leave for Ferrari at the end of the [...]

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Autosport.com is reporting that World champion Kimi Raikkonen said he was not happy with his Ferrari team’s performance in practice for the Australian Grand Prix.
Raikkonen, last year’s winner from pole position in Melbourne, topped the times in the morning session but could only be sixth in the afternoon.

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It has been an interesting pre-season this year with a number of teams talking up their chances. Williams has contunially been talking about how good their car is this season with Sam Michaels, Patrick Head, and even Frank Williams talking about their chances. Given they have a very good driver in Nico Rosberg, maybe things [...]

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Autosport.com is reporting that Ferrari have made clear progress since last year and are ready to fight for victories in 2008, Michael Schumacher said after testing the Italian team’s new car at Barcelona.
The 39-year-old German had not driven the F2008 before, but got back to action yesterday for the first of two days of testing [...]

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As reported at Autosport.com, Michael Schumacher says he and Ferrari have finally decided what his role at the Italian squad will be following his retirement from racing.
The seven-time world champion, who stopped racing at the end of 2006, will be in charge of developing cars for Gestione Sportiva - Ferrari’s motor racing division.
“The F2008? The [...]

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One of the great mysteries in Formula 1 at the moment is who is going to be doing what at Ferrari in 2008. Grandprix.com attempts to explain the new management at Ferrari.  The company has given details of its racing programs with Stefano Domenicali named as the director of the racing department and the various [...]

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GrandPrix.com has an excellent write up of the new F2008 car. The Ferrari is heavier than in 2007 because of the rule changes but Ferrari reckons that the new car will be just as competitive with all new aerodynamics, although the bodywork will probably be quite different by the time the teams head off to [...]

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As reported at Autoweek.com, Ferrari CEO Jean Todt says that seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher turned down an offer to replace him as boss of the Formula One team.
Speaking about why in the end the team did not reach agreement with Ross Brawn as well, Todt said: “Ross is a very good man. His successes [...]

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The BBC is reporting that McLaren have admitted that leaked Ferrari data had been more “widely disseminated” within the team. “It has become clear that Ferrari information was more widely disseminated within McLaren than was previously communicated,” it said on the website.
“McLaren has written to the World Motor Sport Council to apologise that it has [...]

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