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A simpler explanation would be that Ferrari was still the car to beat at te end of 2006.
Unfortunately neither Felipe nor Kimi are the best at developing the car. In Kimi's defence it has to be said thar Ron Dennis held him to his contract until the end, basically preventing Kimi from driving the car for the first 3 months.
Also a couple of key staff left Ferrari (read Ross Brawn and MS).
On the other side McLaren has improved dramatically not only compared to Ferrari but to all the other teams. Alonso is better than Kimi at developing the car and I bet Hamilton yields more in that department than JPM.
Also I think at McLaren last year the progress was hampered by the announced departure of Adrian Newey. Most things probably remeined on hold, especially as they did not have a say in the WC.
So it could be that they broke something in their wind tunnel, or that one of their gizmos was declared illegal.. but for me it is esaier to think it's just the evolution of how things were set in motiton at the end of last year...
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