Australian Grand Prix 2011, Albert Park Circuit - Race 1/19

Interesting comment from James Allen -

Vettel suffered what looked like a bad blister on his left front tyre and there was something going on with the left front of the Red Bull car, because the underside of the wings seemed to be getting damaged. Although the load tests on the front wings are tougher than last year and wings are deflecting less than before, the feeling is that the Red Bull is still the one with the most wing flex.
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Crazy that the other teams haven't managed to work out how they do this! Red Bull still looking like the team to beat over long runs. Will be an interesting race.
 
Can't wait for the Qual, think I'm going to just stay up, if I go to sleep I'l just be in a state for qual, and this now gives me the chance to get my sleeping pattern sorted for the race tomorrow.

I also have the Senna movie to keep me up, R-U ;)
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Interesting comment from James Allen -



Crazy that the other teams haven't managed to work out how they do this! Red Bull still looking like the team to beat over long runs. Will be an interesting race.
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if the underside of the wing is getting damaged then its probably flexing more than the alowed 5mm and hopefully the fia will do something about a wing they know flexes when its illegal.

doubt they will though they only seem to act when one team wins for to long...
 
Well I've placed my bet for this season. £10 says the combined points of Schuey and Alonso to beat Lewis and Jenson. It's an annual bet I have with a colleague at work.
 
Really depends on how hard the others want it, afterall we are just " a drinks company" so should offer little resistance :) I have the luxury of knowing what we have ready to go on the cars alas, i dont know what other teams have.

That said, what we have coming up is "impressive"
 
arknor said:
if the underside of the wing is getting damaged then its probably flexing more than the alowed 5mm and hopefully the fia will do something about a wing they know flexes when its illegal.
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The wing is flexing. We know this from last year. However, the wing is passing all the tests.

Last year, when there was a furore surrounding the flexi wings, the FIA made the tests even more stringent. The wings still passed those tests. If the FIA make the tests even more stringent, they may end up snapping the wings of some cars.

The FIA have done all they can and if other teams really feel aggrieved, that RBR are gaining an advantage from the flexi wings, then it is up to them to come up with their flexi wings.

As far as I'm concerned, RBR are doing nothing wrong, as other teams have had all Winter to copy RBR's flexi wing.
 
sunama said:
The wing is flexing. We know this from last year. However, the wing is passing all the tests.

Last year, when there was a furore surrounding the flexi wings, the FIA made the tests even more stringent. The wings still passed those tests. If the FIA make the tests even more stringent, they may end up snapping the wings of some cars.

The FIA have done all they can and if other teams really feel aggrieved, that RBR are gaining an advantage from the flexi wings, then it is up to them to come up with their flexi wings.

As far as I'm concerned, RBR are doing nothing wrong, as other teams have had all Winter to copy RBR's flexi wing.
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Trust me mate, we are doing nothing illegal. We are under the cosh from the FIA more than most [probably due to winning both championships and other teams moaning] but all we are doing is thinking out of the box.
 
CS||nuTs said:
I assume you have seen the CFD and tunnel work then?
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Nuts, as we all saw last year, not all upgrades work as anticipated.

It is IMPOSSIBLE for CFD and computer simulations to be 100% accurate. The ultimate/best way to test and develop a car part is to test it out on the track. This is the very reason why we saw (often) last year that when a new upgrade was introduced, most of the time it didn't work 100% as expected, from the get-go. It usually took 1 weekend's worth of test data, to understand the new part and then get the most out of it. Effectively, the case with upgrades (for the most part) is 1 step back, 2 steps forward.

And I agree with what Kerming said...until you test your upgrades out on track, you won't know for sure if the upgrades will yield a speed increase for your car.

On the plus side, given that your design team is currently the best in F1, it is very likely that most of the upgrades you are referring to, will actually work as predicted.

In saying that, Ferrari will also be introducing upgrades of their own and they have one thing that RBR don't have...Alonso ;)
 
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