Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport quoted Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo saying that the Scuderia plans to shut down its wind tunnel in order to verify it is correctly calibrated.
In the article, Montezemolo says the Italian Formula 1 team suffered issues with data correlation during the 2011 season. Last year's car -- the 150 Italia -- was apparently not producing the levels of downforce that wind tunnel data suggested some updates should provide.
The Ferrari boss believes the performance of this year's F2012 has also been affected by the inconsistency of the wind tunnel data. Montezemolo added that team boss Stefano Domenicali has made the decision to shut it down during the winter until the problems are fixed.
"The real trouble is that sometimes the data matches and this creates even more confusion," Montezemolo was quoted as saying by Gazzetta dello Sport.
"Domenicali has reached a conclusion: to shut down our wind tunnel for a while and do our tests elsewhere, in order to verify and re-calibrate everything. It will take time.
"I don't know whether this will happen in December or January, it's up to him: I have absolute faith in Domenicali."
Last year, the Ferrari F1 team revealed it was using one of Toyota Motorsport Group's wind tunnels in Cologne, Germany in order to develop the car of Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa.
In the article, Montezemolo says the Italian Formula 1 team suffered issues with data correlation during the 2011 season. Last year's car -- the 150 Italia -- was apparently not producing the levels of downforce that wind tunnel data suggested some updates should provide.
The Ferrari boss believes the performance of this year's F2012 has also been affected by the inconsistency of the wind tunnel data. Montezemolo added that team boss Stefano Domenicali has made the decision to shut it down during the winter until the problems are fixed.
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"The real trouble is that sometimes the data matches and this creates even more confusion," Montezemolo was quoted as saying by Gazzetta dello Sport.
"Domenicali has reached a conclusion: to shut down our wind tunnel for a while and do our tests elsewhere, in order to verify and re-calibrate everything. It will take time.
"I don't know whether this will happen in December or January, it's up to him: I have absolute faith in Domenicali."
Last year, the Ferrari F1 team revealed it was using one of Toyota Motorsport Group's wind tunnels in Cologne, Germany in order to develop the car of Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa.