The interesting thing about the pre-season football tends to be the market move. By millions, big and small players find new accommodation. In formula one, the transfer media market is smaller, so only 24 pilots, but even so, "invisible" movements exist and sometimes have major change to a pilot on the other.
By 2011, Maranello decided keep your partner of pilots, but it not neglected the plot of signings. Ferrari took over the services of Neil Martin, until that time, responsible for the Department of development strategies of Red Bull. Martin went on to direct the strategic group of engineers created by Ferrari to decide career strategies.
One of the main peculiarities of Martin is not traveling to the great prizes that you are working online from factory. In the words of Domenicali, Martin and his team went to work in perfect synchronicity with the wall of boxes, but from Maranello. In this way, Ferrari has a group of technical experts capable of analyzing in real-time all the parameters of the single-seater during the Grand prize without having to exceed the ceiling of 45 internally displaced persons to each race.
Another curiosity is that all the parameters analysis is performed using mathematical models and that it seems that Martin is the best. Decisions are taken from the thrown data, variables and other parameters. The problem comes in mad courses in which there is no time to analyze and alone is worth the experience.
That Yes, Martin and his team did not decide the strategies they advise to them. The final decision take it from the wall, Pat Fry and Stefano Domenicali. FRY came to Ferrari last July and after the collapse of Abu Dhabi, was appointed as new technical responsible track and strategy replacing Chris Dyer. It won't be the first occasion that Fry and Martin to work together, as both were at McLaren.
But after three races of the season, the signing of Neil Martin seems that it has not been the balm that need the wall of Ferrari. Marred by a single-seat that is not going to back, in the Italian team decisions have not been not suited. When things go wrong, they can always be worse.
