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The appearance of Ferrari's radical new nose innovation at the Barcelona test on Monday confirmed that espionage could still be a factor at the Italian team.

Alleged Ferrari spy Nigel Stepney no longer works for the Maranello based team, but the technical secret about the 'hole nose' nonetheless emerged in the pages of an Italian magazine some ten weeks ago.

Autosprint broke the story about the nose, including sketches of the innovation, in its pages in February, raising suspicions that the leaking of confidential and sensitive design data has not stopped, notwithstanding Stepney's firing and McLaren's $100m fine.

According to the Swiss newspaper Blick, Technical Director Aldo Costa was 'horrified' about the leak, confiding that 'very few' Ferrari workers even knew about the nose solutions when they were being tested in the wind tunnel.

Blick claims that an internal investigation into the leak is in progress.

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Who cares the soft tyre is just a diversion from the fact the racing is so dire. Just gives people the false hope that someones option tyre will grain & stuff their race.

Bin refuelling.

Give em soft tyres that only just last the distance.

Kill the downforce.

Then we may get some racing.

they should never have left

how do they intend to mark the softer tyre since there will be no groove in the face of the tread to paint on that rediculous white stripe?

Well yes... Exactly...

I'd still like to see a ban on all those silly flaps and elements that protrude all over these modern cars, reduce some of their aerodynamic efficiency and make it so a trailing car gets a bit of tow... Also, I'd like to see F1 take the biofuels route... 1.8 litre turbocharged V8 biodiesel motors... Could you imagine the torque??? :D

Why do people keep winging about parity in f1? It’s the pinnacle of motorsport, why should they have restrictions? The cars should be using the best and most advanced of everything that they can come up with. If a team is loosing then they need to make a better car or continue to loose... If people say "to keep the cost down" well if you want to play at the top then you need to bring the appropriate $, why should other teams who can afford the development suffer for the team that wants to play the game but cant really afford it....

F1 should not be about making all cars even, it should be about the ultimate speed whatever way possible.

Why do people keep winging about parity in f1? It’s the pinnacle of motorsport, why should they have restrictions? The cars should be using the best and most advanced of everything that they can come up with. If a team is loosing then they need to make a better car or continue to loose... If people say "to keep the cost down" well if you want to play at the top then you need to bring the appropriate $, why should other teams who can afford the development suffer for the team that wants to play the game but cant really afford it....

F1 should not be about making all cars even, it should be about the ultimate speed whatever way possible.

FINALLY!

Unfortunately there arent enough companies/car makers willing or able to spend the big bucks to complete like the top teams are doing. By cutting costs it allows more teams to entry into this business, because without any cars on the grid to watch, theres going to be no formula 1 to watch.

F1 cars these days now exceed the limits of the drivers ability, not the other way around which was the cse in 'the good old days'. So now they are having to regulate the cars so as to keep them at a level where both car and driver abilty are somewhat the same. With this comes ridculous rules and band aid solutuions to the ever growing list of pronblems. And when you have dipshits like Mosley in change of these things, we're never going to get real solutions

So once again, thank you NoW... you've done us all a great justice

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