Relibility mid 90's

[adam2003]

When i watch back to the 1994/1995 season and see all the failures on cars throughout the season, i.e. ferrari.

Beggars belief if Ferrari had loads of failure. surely before season or next years car would be to build a reliable car. Then in 1996 failures yet again.

If engine keep blowing up stop and find out whats causing this. i know you have to keep pushing for development but surly the motto below is true

To finish first, first you must finish

[Jersey Tom]

If engine keep blowing up stop and find out whats causing this.

Easier said than done. And you don't exactly get to just "stop" and quit running races entirely.

[xxChrisxx]

When i watch back to the 1994/1995 season and see all the failures on cars throughout the season, i.e. ferrari.

Beggars belief if Ferrari had loads of failure. surely before season or next years car would be to build a reliable car. Then in 1996 failures yet again.

If engine keep blowing up stop and find out whats causing this. i know you have to keep pushing for development but surly the motto below is true

To finish first, first you must finish

Now bear in mind that for years in the early 90's Ferrari were a bit of a joke who managed to be slow AND unreliable. And in general all teams had poor reliability in comparison to the modern era.

Lets pose this question back to you back to you:

You are semi competitive, but have a 50% chance of blowing an engine or finishing around the points, or even a race win when your competitors run out of luck.
You wind your engine back to the output where it is reliable, but are woefully off the pace all season.

Which would you chose?

[Tim.Wright]

Todays reliability is mainly due to massive rule restrictions in the enginenand gearbox department. 20 year ago there was still a lot of developing going on and the engines and gearboxes were much closer to the point of exploding because they would change the engine after qualifying and agin after the race.

Look how unreliable the kers systems are even on the top teams. Its a nnew technology with still few restrictions. They go bang all the time.

Also what Chris said, the 90s were a bad period for ferrari. I suspect they were not interested in finishing every race n 12th.

On one hand you can say to finish first, first you must finish. But you can equally validly say its easier to make a fast car reliable than a reliable car fast. They are just stupid catch phrases anyway, you cant sum up the development direction of a car with one simple sentence.

Tim

[riff_raff]

When i watch back to the 1994/1995 season and see all the failures on cars throughout the season, i.e. ferrari.

Beggars belief if Ferrari had loads of failure. surely before season or next years car would be to build a reliable car. Then in 1996 failures yet again.

If engine keep blowing up stop and find out whats causing this. i know you have to keep pushing for development but surly the motto below is true

To finish first, first you must finish

adam2003-

With high-performance systems like engines or transmissions, making them reliable requires lots of detailed analysis work, lots of quality control during manufacture, very careful assembly procedures, and controlled operation. None of these considerations existed back in the mid 90's in F1.