True story about your video: when Michael came in 96 they were switching to V10 (officially for torque and aerodynamic reasons) and they let him drive that very car to test the difference with the new one.. Once he came back to the pit he said:
"You are crazy, with that engine I will win every single race!". Than the technicians forced the issue.. the rest is history.
Schumacher tested the 1995 (Ferrari 412) car and he said he liked it. He was alot faster than Gerhard Berger and Jean Alesi, Ferrari drivers for the 1995 season. It doesn't surprise me that Ferrari would think they could have won that year's championships. The downsides of having a V12 engine are the extra weight from having 2 extra cylinders and the engine not being fuel efficient. It's too bad for 1996, the
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was a dog shit car. Ferrari misinterpreted the technical rules concerning the mandatory side head-rest protection and other aerodynamic parts that the car look bulbous, especially compared to eventual champions
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car. Having said that, Schumacher did win 3 times that year and did this in a dog shit car:
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I apologise to those in this thread. It's my fault for never knowing about an Italian joke and this turning into a prelude to Ferrari's early 21st century success. We can go back to our regular programme of "when is episode 2 coming out?" or "will Tara finally have a butt slider to fix her arse?" and most importantly for most people "will the Achilles (default name) the horse fornicate with our playable heroine?"
