Nothing to do with F1 but an interesting rant by respected motoring journalist Chris Harris about exactly how far Ferrari will go to "win" road tests. Cheating? I'd say so.
http://ca.jalopnik.com/5760248/how-ferrari-spins
I'm not sure if this is any different to say Nissan massaging the numbers for the GTR, Porsche quietly using optional-trick rubber in supposed comparison tests, Jaguar disconnecting cats, or numerous car manufacturers
"tweaking' their test-cars for either performance or economy
depending on what the desired marketing goal is.
In a way, it's a shame Ferrari do resort to taking it so seriously though, as Monkey Boy says, their cars are good enough
but I very much doubt it'll damage the brand, well no more than
Ferrari World has anyway.
I do like Chris Harris though, his videos are f-in brilliant. It's a shame that
Driver's Republic folded, it had much potential.
It makes me wonder how the Top Gear crew get any Ferarris to review, because they regularly criticise them
Top Gear doesn't really review cars though does it, unless one actually spells
review like this... "sensationalist", when Clarkson was
"reviewing" the 458, he was bitching about how you can't have both the sat nav and the speedo on at the same time, yet you could see the speedo clear-as-day whilst the sat-nav was on.
An observation that was erroneously repeated again in last weeks show.
But Top Gear's really not about cars anymore, it's demographic has changed,
considerably.
Hopefully it won't be as back as the dren eminating from IRL-IndyCars.
It could sound even worse... weren't those V8's in the IRL's at least? The 4 cylinder turbo's in the '80's were utterly dreadful and flat sounding engines.
Of course, everything pales in comparison to the 20k+ V10 screamers of 2004.
