Kimi Räikkönen’s race-engineer, Cedric Mazenq, in Citroen Junior Team thanks the Finnish driver for giving very detailed feedback on the rally-car’s settings. In F1 Räikkönen is used to set up his car very precisely.
- He notices a lot of details because he has learnt in F1 to do detailed work. He is able to help the team improve the car, Mazenq says to MTV3 about what kind of first-impression Räikkönen gave him.
Citroen-team has offered in Arctic-rally many different kinds of set-up options for Räikkönen to try out so that the Iceman gets experience on what kind of adjustments are best for him.
- This rally is a test for Kimi. It is follow-up for the test we drove last week in Jyväskylä area. The goal of this rally is to find the initial settings for the Swedish WRC-rally, Mazenq emphasizes.
For Arctic-rally the Citroen-team’s goal has been to make Kimi a car that is the easiest possible to drive.
- In the beginning the most important for him is that he gets confidence in his car. This is a new world for him. We do our best so that we help him learn about the car, the route and the notes. There are a lot of differences between rally and F1 but he is taking them with an open mind, Mazenq tells.
Source: MTV3
Courtesy: Leijona @OF
1 comment:
I was talking about this to Ludi and tatisac a while back at their octeto racing blogs blogs, that the goons at Ferrari like Luca and Stefano need to be made to hear this loud clear. The myth of Kimi's lack of feedback is just that, a myth.
He is very precise and not one for many words but it gets the job done. Directly to the point so to speak.
Ferrari's own Stella and Dyre dont agree with Luca and Stefano. Thats the joke.
Driver development and contribution is over exaggerated by people who dont understand motorsport engineering. Driver feedback has its limits and engineers can quickly spot if someone is making any sense or not. Because telemetry will not co-relate to what the driver is explaining about a certain feeling they felt while driving. Examples of people who cant put their feeling in the right context is Hamilton of Mclaren which is why they relied on Dela rosa. Yes such drivers can waste the team's time in finding solutions getting to the bottom of the problem.
Alonso and Kimi are both very capable in their own ways in giving good feedback but neither is going to make a lemon faster than it can be. That falls in the hands of the engineers. Not the driver.
If kimi is so poor in feedback his Mclaren years would be riddled with setups issues. The contrary was true, he had very few setup issues regardless if the car is a winner or not.
It cracks me up when they make these claims of Fernando or any driver for that matter being a 'car developer', its not like he is sitting front of the CFD/CNCs and building the car and engine all by himself.
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