Kiril Varbanov wrote:Having a performance clause wouldn't be a surprise. While this goes into Silly Season, Alonso told Autosprint that the team is focusing solely on 2015 from now on, which will send F14T into struggle for the rest of the season. This, however, contradicts what J. Allison said earlier that the two projects [2014 and 2015] are faring well together simultaneously.
I think this artical
https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/for ... 0--f1.html explains it. Although it is Christian Horners opinion for RBR, I think it probably holds true for Ferrari.
But team principal Christian Horner thinks the fact that there are only minor rule changes for 2015 means that there is very little to be gained by stopping work on the current car.
"I can't speak for other teams but this team will fight all the way to Abu Dhabi," he explained.
"Everything we learn this year has a relevance for next year. We don't give up on anything.
"I think it is difficult because the chassis, we can see was very strong in the
first sector in Germany and in the
third sector we were right there. The
damage was in the middle sector.
Alonzo isn't far off...
Sector #1
Pos No Driver Time
1 6 Nico Rosberg 16.680
2 3 Daniel Ricciardo 16.813
3 77 Valtteri Bottas 16.837
4 19 Felipe Massa 16.843
5 1 Sebastian Vettel 16.907
6 14 Fernando Alonso 16.927
Sector #2
1 77 Valtteri Bottas 35.545
2 6 Nico Rosberg 35.755
3 19 Felipe Massa 35.812
4 20 Kevin Magnussen 36.035
5 3 Daniel Ricciardo 36.149
6 11 Sergio Perez 36.190
7 27 Nico Hulkenberg 36.235
8 14 Fernando Alonso 36.260
9 44 Lewis Hamilton 36.290
10 1 Sebastian Vettel 36.311
Sector #3
Pos No Driver Time
1 6 Nico Rosberg 24.100
2 1 Sebastian Vettel 24.248
3 20 Kevin Magnussen 24.248
4 3 Daniel Ricciardo 24.311
5 77 Valtteri Bottas 24.377
6 19 Felipe Massa 24.423
7 14 Fernando Alonso 24.462