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The Ferrari Story You Haven't Heard➡️ The Bet That Proved Them Wrong: How Ken Tyrrell and Colin Chapman Lost to Mauro Forghieri?
"Ferrari Would never win a GP on a track with many curves" Ken Tyrrell and Colin Chapman said this and then bet with Mauro to pay for a Dinner if Ferrari won at Monaco.
There is a fascinating story about these three legends, Mauro Forghieri said:
"Ken Tyrrell and Colin Chapman came to me and said: “Forghieri, you’ll never win a GP on a track with many curves”. That year we won Monaco GP with Villeneuve...
They bet a dinner with me, so they came and said: “Whenever you want, here in Montecarlo...”"
Mauro told them:
“I don’t want you to pay because it’s nice to know that Ken Tyrrell and Colin Chapman owe me a dinner”. They laughed and congratulated because we solved the problem."
How Ferrari solved Turbo delay problem in Mauro's words?
"We got rid of the turbo delay by doing this:
when the driver lifted the gas pedal, he closed the arrival of air into the engine, it was like putting your hand on it... The turbine in the meantime slowed down and when he got back on the gas, the turbine wasn’t ready.
So we short-circuited air inside the turbine and injected fuel too, so when he lifted his foot the turbine RPM raised instead because of this circuitry and the driver didn’t feel much delay: that’s why we won in Montecarlo, otherwise, those two would have been right.
It was the beginning, we were getting used to this new world and this problem was finely solved, we became more competitive than Renault...
I never had dinner with them though, Ken died and Colin Chapman too, anyway they still owe me a dinner”."
P.S: Mauro Forghieri was the last generation of Total Engineers, he died a couple of months ago. may he rest in peace. he was a great man and engineer.
Mauro and Ross Brawn are my role models in life ❤️
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