During the meeting with journalists which took place on the sidelines of the presentation of the new Ferrari F1-75, the head of the Italian team Mattia Binotto he had admitted to having brought a item copied from another car, observed in the previous days. The piece in question had been replicated by Aston Martin and was the additional profile placed above the leading edge of the flat bottom at the center of the car, visible laterally in the underbody at the central pylon of the Halo. The Ferrari engineer had taken what happened as an example to explain that some solutions would have been easily replicable, as happened, while others would have needed more time.
From this point of view it is understandable the importance of the visual analysis that the teams can do directly on the track in Barcelona, where the winter tests of Formula 1 began today. For example, in the morning the Alfa Romeo mechanics tried to block do not facilitate the work of photographers, on a camouflage livery that helps to partially conceal the technical direction taken by the Hinwil team. But along the Montmelò track there are several ‘spies’ of each stable, intent on photographing the rival teams to study possible solutions to be replicated on their respective cars. Unlike what happened in the past, in fact, the more simplified lines of the single-seaters should speed up and facilitate copying operations. Clearly it is more than plausible that the most extreme ideas will be revealed only in Bahrain, so as not to attract the attention of the men of the Federation so much in advance.
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