Heros and Zeros

It looks like Ferrari and not the same dominating team which we saw a year back or may be during Schumi Brawn Era. The new rules have just not worked in favour of the big guns like Ferraris and the Maclaren. Seems like while there 2 times were busy fighting for the title last year, the rest of the lot focused on developing their 2009 car. But as they say, you can never rule out the big guns, after 4 disapointing rounds, Ferrari were determined to make a come back and they showed some good performance during Friday's practice session for the Spanish GP.

It looked liked that Ferrari were back after they dominated the Friday's practice session during the Spanish GP. On saturday qualifying, it once again proved to be a disater for the Scuderia team when Kimi Riakonnen didnt manage to qualify for Q2 not because of lack of pace, but because of some poor tactical blunders which left the Finn languished in the pits instead on progressing through the qualifying. His team mate Masa, howver manageg to put up a good show by qualifying 4th.

The Ferraris certainly looked like the car to challenge the Brawns for the Spanish GP. Being the only car with KERS on the front row of the grid, Masa was certainly the man to watch out for. The 5 red light went off. Both the Ferraris made a superb start. Masa jumped from 4th to 3rd and Kimi jumped 5 places from 15th to 10th. Till lap 12 things were going pretty smooth but desaster struck on Ferrari once again. This season Ferrari had been strugling with reliability issues rather than any thing else and once again Kimi's car suffered from hyraulic failure when he retired on lap 12 of the race.

I really feel sorry for Masa. The Brazilian drove his heart out at Barcelona. He was third and could easily finished the race on the podium. He used his power boost provided by his KERS to blast ahead of the 2 Red Bulls in the opening corner of the race and could have so easily finished the race on the podium but his race was runined by a re-fuelling problem which prevented his car to get enough fuel on both his pit stops.

What must Ferrari do this season to win a race. They have had sequence of errors. Sadly I think they still have a long way to go before we consider them to be likely winners for this year. Like most people I too think its game over for the Prancing horses. The Brawsn still have an edge over the Ferraris and it looks like they will run away with the championship.

It has been suggested by experts that given the current form, Jenson Button could win his first title as early as the British or German GP. This could be almost the repeat of 2002 season when Schumi had the title sewn up with six races remaining. If you looking for an old Ferrari style Schumi/Brawn esque performance, look no further than the team headed by former Ferrerai's technical director Ross Brawn. Jenson Button has now won 4 races out of 5. Superb race speed, excellent in qualifying and amazing stratergy. Sounds a bit like Scumi/Brawn esque doesnt it?? The old Ferrari days.....