Ferrari Mailing List: Re: 599 Hybrid leaked pre-Geneva...

[E M (pokiebaron]

I suspect, without all the electronic aids, when the right foot is put to
the floor, a standard 599 would have a hard time remaining on the road.
Power of most of today's current crop of performance cars is so beyond the
ability of most owners to exploit waht's there, not to mention no where to
us it on public roads.

I suspect it will be for bragging rights, so those who buy it can say they
have a KERS system, to go along with their flappy paddle transmission.  The
difference in performance in the real world just doesn't make a difference.
Only on paper.  Any car with 500 HP, and torque to match is going to have so
much in excess, a messed up shift will be compensated for with brute power
alone.  Now, the track is a different story, BUT, the 599 and cars like it
are not race cars, and most who buy them are not race drivers, so any
advantage in reduced lap times due to an F1 trans, or KERS, is just
providing the average owner with a false sense of driver skill, and doing
them a disservice.  (much like really sticky tires at DE events; you're not
driving faster, the tires are just making you look quicker).

Best way to go faster, is with lots of DE seat time, and good instruction.
Paying for gear to gain fractions of a second only count on the track, once
you're already able to drive your standard car at 10/10s all day without
thinking about it, and there's a clock on with a checkered flag awaiting you
at the end.

Ok, my little rant from a P bug driver over. lol.

Ed
911SC

On 1 March 2010 17:36, Hans E. Hansen <FList [at] hanshansen.org> wrote:

> Many comment that "Enzo's spinning in his grave" for his
> company making a green-weenie car.  But don't forget -
> Ferrari F1 kept KERS, as did McLaren, throughout the season
> because it helped performance.  It arguably gave Ferrari
> the win at Spa.  Ferrari could have dropped it, but didn't.
> So.....  I suspect that a KERS 599 just might have benefits
> that put a smile on the driver's face when the right pedal
> goes to the floor.  Gas mileage, etc. are just window dressing
> to silence the critics of a car company that produces nothing
> other than wretched excess.
>
> If the Ferrari press kit silences the Al Gores of the world,
> it simply allows the rest of us to go on enjoying our
> "wretched excess", smug in the knowledge that
> - just by accident <g> - it so happens to make us go
> faster.
>
> Hans.
>
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Fellippe Galletta
> <fellippe.galletta [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Hans E. Hansen <FList [at] hanshansen.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Not really a "leak".  I got an email directly from Ferrari with
> >> the details, as I'm sure most of the rest of you did.
> >>
> >> Hans.
> >>
> >
> > Ok, so what do you say?
> >
> > Surely more interesting than a 612, no?
> >
> > FG
> >
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