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[KnucklesAgain]

Team Cancer seems bent on eviscerating itself, Ron Dennis + Honda + Button FTW.

 

What?

[arnoldpredator]

This is actually a good point. When Kimi joined ferrari i sort of expected him to struggle against Alonso as he was so well integrated in the team and had everything around him. KR had to adapt to a lot of things. He only managed to mount consistent challenge during the closing stages of the championship. The year exposed his weaknesses which were there ever since he returned (as his fan I have to be honest).

 

If Alonso does not have clauses similar to ferrari where he could chose his engineers and other preferences as well, button will be more difficult for him than KR. He is entering a new territory. Same for Vettel at ferrari but at lesser extent

 

Could you show us the contract Alonso had with Ferrari?

 

Apparently you wrote it or something like that, it is amazing the information you have.

 

Share the contract with us, thanks!

[Frank Tuesday]

One team as two World Champions that showed poorly against their teammates last year.  The other has two World Champions, one of which dominated his fellow WC teammate, and the other did a bit better than his rookie teammate.  I find it hard to get excited about three of the four drivers.  I hope that they turn things around this year. 

[HeadFirst]

Neither.  McLaren have taken so long to announce anything that they'd have to drive to the moon to make me interested, and Ferrari's lineup is so embroiled with the perceived personas of the two drivers that any actual facts are overwhelmed by the decision over who actually is the most overrated thing since sliced bread.

 

Maybe once they get in the cars...!

 

Sliced bread is not over-rated, if you are lack a sharp knife.

[SR388]

Ferrari. I want to see how much further Vettel's stock can fall.

[McLaren]

One team as two World Champions that showed poorly against their teammates last year.  The other has two World Champions, one of which dominated his fellow WC teammate, and the other did a bit better than his rookie teammate.  I find it hard to get excited about three of the four drivers.  I hope that they turn things around this year. 

 

I wouldn't say Button did only a bit better than his teammate. He got 69.6% of the teams points.. whereas Alonso got 74.5% (less than 5% more) of the teams points. And bearing in mind Kimi was so poor this year, I wouldn't say Alonso was significantly better than Button... if at all.

[Brazzers]

On paper it's Alonso/Button combination that's more exciting. Button is more closely aligned with Alonso in the sense of on-track knowledge and possibly setup? I think he might give him a good run but on occasions when the car is on par. Otherwise Button is more than likely going to become Alonso's next victim. Hamilton did beat Jensen 2-1 but in never in any of those seasons was his pace in question.

 

The same cannot be said about Raikkonen or Vettel, with evidence from the past season suggesting the car has to be orientated in a particular direction for the pair to work cohesively with their machinery. In a way Button, Raikkonen and Vettel have one weakness and that's how the car is going to turn, whilst the next biggest weakness for Button at least is possibly Alonso's tendency to drive whatever he's given. 

 

 

Ferrari. I want to see how much further Vettel's stock can fall.

 

It can't get any worse than the oil prices for sure, right?