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      10-03-2019, 03:06 PM   #177
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Originally Posted by SenorFunkyPants View Post
Vettel "helped develop" the car only in the sense that every race car driver does, which is to provide feedback on how the car drives and in what areas he would like to see improvements. He has essentially zero influence on the basic philosophy of how the car is designed or developed during season excepting in possibly setting basic desirable targets for the how the car should perform.
The idea that Ferrari should design this years car with CLC driving preferences in mind is absurd. As is the idea that CLC is faster than Vettel because Vettel doesn't like the way the car drives.
Well that depends what he helped develop,you and I don't know what though.
He is not paid $36M just to sit on his a$$, don't you think?? and it's a fact that he was slightly slower because of the dynamics of the car from what I have seen and read.
The difference has been negated, more so in race form to an extent now because of the super straight line speed, engine and more adaptive downforce to play with.
Vettel has said ''far more options are available now than were before'' and he's not kidding lol
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