Ferrari will dominate in 2005 (again!) - Opinion

[F1greyhound]

FERRARI might not dominate but they still look like winners to me, the 04M matches well against the opposition and the 05 will go 0.6-0.8sec faster............................

[Graham Ross]

My read is different,

Ferrari may win a race or two tops!
The new car doesn't look much faster. In testing it has been consistently slower and that isn't a good sign for Ferrari

[Julian Mayo]

Hopefully Sunday will shed some light on the season. If ferrari don' do well hereI think they could struggle at some of the other tracks and have a tougher season than they have for a few years

[F1greyhound]

The 2003 season was pretty tight. I expect a similar scenario.

However in a close battle between 4-5 teams Michael has the edge.

Expect 8 wins from the Champ this year, Fernando 3, Rubens, Juan Pablo and Kimi 2 each. Jenson could match Gian Carlo for a single win...........

[Graham Ross]

Like 2003 tight but Michael still wins 8 races

You call that tight

[F1greyhound]

You got me

But honestly tight was supposed to mean close fights in all races.....

I think that we will see 8-10 competitive cars each race, not a battle of just 2 or 3 teams. And in such situations Michael seems to be the one coming out on top.

Anyway I hope we see a close fight in the races and in the Championship.

[F1greyhound]

just 7 wins for Michael unless it rains in Sepang...

[Julian Mayo]

Lets go back to the heading at the top of the post. NO

[sgd]

Lets go back to the heading at the top of the post. NO

I with you.... Could we do that Ed??
(just joking)

[FerrariFan#1]

Ok they didn't dominate in the first two races. First one due to weather and second one mainly Bridgestone but also old car.

If Ferrari bring the F2005 to Bahrain then it will win. The test times are actually good. Race lap times have increased by around 2 seconds from last year. The times set in Mugello are around 2 seconds slower.
Only issue remains is reliability.
But even if they bring the F2004M, they will be much stronger than Malaysia as Bridgestone will bring a better tyre this time.

Don't raise your hopes to high

[sgd]

If Ferrari bring the F2005 to Bahrain then it will win. The test times are actually good. Race lap times have increased by around 2 seconds from last year. The times set in Mugello are around 2 seconds slower.
Only issue remains is reliability.
But even if they bring the F2004M, they will be much stronger than Malaysia as Bridgestone will bring a better tyre this time.

Don't raise your hopes to high

Hi! maybe (?) in race times are ~2 secs slower but in test not. See:
http://newsonf1.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24
optimism is good!
I won't raise my hopes to high... until barcelona
you, i fact, should not do so neither...

[N. Jones]

FERRARI might not dominate but they still look like winners to me, the 04M matches well against the opposition and the 05 will go 0.6-0.8sec faster............................

The 04M matched well against what? A Jordan? Minardi?

It did well for Rubins but why did it fail Michael? It seems that many excuses have been made about this car - not fast enough, bad tyres, but so far I have not seen any results....

[Julian Mayo]

SGD,do you spend ALL day digging out info on how bad Ferrari are doing?

[sgd]

SGD,do you spend ALL day digging out info on how bad Ferrari are doing?

It's just that i was waiting for those tests, as i thought they were important, but after those times and the decition of race it in Bahrain, maybe tests fastest times weren't too important, although I can't see how they will have a good Qualif. we'll see...

[Julian Mayo]

Hope they have taken into account the 15 seconds off a race time Williams have just found