F1.08Operating from a stellar performance in 2007 and finishing as the third best team behind Ferrari and McLaren, ambition is high this season. How to catch these leaders? Willy Rampf calls it ‘taking risks’ and that’s where he’s taken the F1.08.

Pre-season has been one with a lot of questions and head scratching. For at least 3/4 of testing, the car didn’t perform even well enough to be 5th best team and in order to tame it, the car began growing all sorts of interesting parts.

Leadership of BMW-Sauber falls on Mario Theisssen who has done a great job in moving the team forward in expansion without causing any disruption in progress. Technical director Willy Rampf has done a fairly good job with a moderate budget and remains confident the F1.08 will surprise.

The F1.08 got off to a pretty rocky start and according to both Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld, was an impossible beast on the track. Balance was an issue for quite a long while and being such a complex car, proved difficult to set up. As I mentioned earlier, many new and radical parts appeared on the car including a new pair of antlers sprouting up from the nose of the car.
The team did admit they spent a lot of time testing on full fuel tanks as echoed by Fernando Alonso so the car could actually be faster than we have seen.

Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica are in charge of the driving and so far in testing Rober Kubica has been the most impressive of the two. He has been so impressive that finishing ahead of Nick is quite a possibility come the end of the season.

I still pick this team to finish 3rd in the constructors championship behind Ferrari and McLaren.

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