Alonso's driving style

[Steven]

I don't know if you guys noticed it, but he's got that particular driving style. While Schumacher makes use of the curbes, Alonso kind of flies over them. It's often like he takes a shortcut in every corner he takes, just so narrow to the inside, and often with parts of the front wheels hanging over the grass. What do you all think about it?

I think he's the future for Formula one, if he gets surrounded with the right people. I do think anyway he's at the right team at the moment
Giving me a choice I'd sign for Renault, no matter what

[Guest]

Al lot depends what lines your car allow you to drive. Montoya also said that the Ranaults drove way to much downforce to overtake him. Softer suspension or less bump rubbers gives you also a good car to fly over the curbs.

[Monstrobolaxa]

Simple...the quickest way to go from point A to point B is a straight line....and depending on the suspension you have you can cut the corners slightly more (or not)....it's all down to suspension geometry! Probably we wouldn't see Alonso driving this way if he was in this years Minardi!

[jamsbong]

I don't know if you guys noticed it, but he's got that particular driving style. While Schumacher makes use of the curbes, Alonso kind of flies over them. It's often like he takes a shortcut in every corner he takes, just so narrow to the inside, and often with parts of the front wheels hanging over the grass. What do you all think about it?

I think he's the future for Formula one, if he gets surrounded with the right people. I do think anyway he's at the right team at the moment
Giving me a choice I'd sign for Renault, no matter what

You're right Tomba, his style is an uncompromising way to cutting corners (within the limits of the rules of course). Michael and Kimi's style is focus on smooth cutting, they make sure all 4 wheels stick to the road all the time.

Alonso style is different. He just find the straightest line and let the car hop over those curbs. You can imagine that is kinda rough/aggressive and very very bumpy.

I can't really say that is the fastest way because when your wheels are in the air, you can't apply throttle and move your car forward. So in theory at least, it is better to stick wheels on the tarmac all the time. Thats kinda why Kimi is always faster (in 2005).

IMO, it has always been Alonso's hunger to win that won him so many races. I'm sorry to say but I don't see that in Kimi as much as I see it in Alonso.

[WhiteBlue]

Christ, this thread is more than 5 years old. How on earth did you dig that out?

[modbaraban]

I guess it's time to start a table/chart of top 10 archeologic findings listed by age.

[timbo]

Wow! And I also started a similar thread a while back, nut he found something REALLY old. However, wow, Tomba, in retrospect, what a foresight!

[Metar]

Christ, this thread is more than 5 years old. How on earth did you dig that out?

I stumbled across this very thread just a day or two before the resurrection - the four-five links at the bottom of each thread don't seem to consider age, so I got some threads dating back to '03 there..

[jamsbong]

i didn't see the date. I only replied coz it was interesting.

I donno how this thread end up here.

[sdimm]

Now the question is how he will drive the Ferrari

Alonso's driving style changed a lot in 2008 to become much smoother mid corner than before and during 2009 he kept with the same.
However it still looks as sharp as back in the day when this thread started. Take a look at his Hungary pole lap from this year for instance.

[WhiteBlue]

shameless thread bumping. wait till Ciro closes it!

Oh, did I forget something?

[Fil]

Oh, did I forget something?

Yeah, you forgot your anti-Alonso/Ferrari rant.
Tho i guess Ciro-bashing will probably be a sufficient replacement..


Is this retro-thread week or something? Might have to go for a random hunt.. see what else we've got lurking in the basement of this forum..

[pgj]

Straight-lining curves is an interesting observation. Will he or anyone else be able to get away with taking so much curb with narrower front tyres. Won't narrower tyres mean that more energy is going through the front suspension?

[mx_tifoso]

Straight-lining curves is an interesting observation. Will he or anyone else be able to get away with taking so much curb with narrower front tyres. Won't narrower tyres mean that more energy is going through the front suspension?

Go through the winter testing images and videos to find out.

[TheMinister]

Nothing wrong with a good bit of thread archaeology, provided you turn up something interesting like this thread.

What about Massa's style? Will the two drivers have different approaches? Will that cause problems with varying setups between the two cars? Or will alonso adapt to a smoother style?