Ferrari Mailing List: Re: SPOILER: F1 Australia

[Charles Perry (charles]

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> Of course. Ross Brawn.  Wonder how soon Michael will join him?

My wife had been speculating about this as well since MS' contract with
Ferrari ends this year and they've made statements that imply that they
don't intend to renew it. MS could be a great development driver for
Brawn since he's so good with providing feedback to the engineers.

>  Can it all (or mostly) be the difference in diffuser design?

Actually my favorite part of the race was in the press conference at the
end where Reubens said something to the effect that "anyone that just
thinks we were fast because of the diffuser should know that my diffuser
was destroyed by the collision with the Mercedes on the first lap."

Also, what's everyone's take on the Vettel/Kubica collision? I was
really bummed for Vettel. I thought he drove a great race and Kub got
greedy at the end and killed them both. From the replays, it looks like
Vettel jinked several times to try to make room for Kubica, but Kubica
carried too much speed into the corner and when the car started to
oversteer, it essentially rotated Kub's front wing in front of Vettel's
rear tire and caused the crash.

I did think that Steve was right about the Honda guys being upset. Brawn
scored more points in their first race  than Honda scored all last
season. Awesome! It was really good to see Barrichello on the podium
again. I think there's very few people in F1 that are just genuinely
likeable at the same as they are truly competitive. I think Massa does
that well as well.

-- charles