Australian Grand Prix 2016, Melbourne - Race 1/21

Greboth · 16 Mar 2016 at 11:25

smr said:
Woah!

http://d2d0b2rxqzh1q5.cloudfront.net/sv/3.65/dir/ab7/image/ab7ae18edfcb441120eecadbaac7c771.jpg

"It is believed the matt finish across the entire car means a weight-saving of almost half a kilogram compared to the use of gloss."

I wonder if all cars will come in matt finish now.

It is nice to see Jordan back on the track

For F1 0.5Kg is a good saving, I am surprised more people didn't go the matte route earlier.

smr · 16 Mar 2016 at 11:45

Greboth said:
It is nice to see Jordan back on the track

For F1 0.5Kg is a good saving, I am surprised more people didn't go the matte route earlier.

Yeah I wonder how much that weight saving translates to in a qually lap.

GravyMonster · 16 Mar 2016 at 11:49

IIRC 1Kg of fuel roughly equates to .1s per lap so they've saved .05s from their optimal lap times, so around 3 seconds a race.

Shimmy · 16 Mar 2016 at 11:54

Nah the figure people tend to use is every 10kg is 0.3s per lap, so the paint gives 0.015s advantage per lap.

The_Abyss · 16 Mar 2016 at 11:54

That Renault is stunning. A beacon of gold in a drab dismal grid of grey.

Alibaba99 · 16 Mar 2016 at 12:46

smr said:
Yeah I wonder how much that weight saving translates to in a qually lap.

As there is a minimum weight for the car and driver there is no overall weight saving. You may be able to mount a small amount of ballast low down though, to improve things.

Kris_90 · 16 Mar 2016 at 12:50

The Renault looks really good in gold. I hope it looks more gold than yellow on track.

Skeeter · 16 Mar 2016 at 12:52

Alibaba99 said:
As there is a minimum weight for the car and driver there is no overall weight saving. You may be able to mount a small amount of ballast low down though, to improve things.

Exactly. The car won't be lighter, they will just have slightly more headroom in terms of ballast and where they locate it.

If there was a meaningful benefit then every team would run the cars in bare carbon.

Crippled Potato · 16 Mar 2016 at 12:52

Greboth said:
It is nice to see Jordan back on the track

For F1 0.5Kg is a good saving, I am surprised more people didn't go the matte route earlier.

Might not be as simple as that. Could be that the matte finish is slightly more abrasive to the air flowing round it making it slightly slower. Just me speculating though.

There's not much reason to paint it if they were really mad about aiming to save weight. When I was in Formula Student, we hardly had any paint on our car at all. Nearly all of it was bare carbon!

leaskovski · 16 Mar 2016 at 13:02

smr said:
Yeah I wonder how much that weight saving translates to in a qually lap.

Naff all really because they will have to carry it in ballast to keep the car to the minimum weight regs.

MooMoo444 · 16 Mar 2016 at 13:16

Meh, every little helps since it means they can put the weight exactly where they want it and improve downforce/grip, even if only miniscule.

MissChief · 16 Mar 2016 at 14:51

Very nice to see a bright car on the grid. Too many dark colours these days.

El_Watcher · 16 Mar 2016 at 15:36

Crippled Potato said:
Might not be as simple as that. Could be that the matte finish is slightly more abrasive to the air flowing round it making it slightly slower. Just me speculating though.

According to RedBull, they were saying their matte car is more slippery through the air. Don't know how much difference it would actually make though.

Shimmy · 16 Mar 2016 at 15:53

Vettel's named his Ferrari Margherita..

Renault want to have some even more interesting liveries if allowed.

gord · 16 Mar 2016 at 17:06

El_Watcher said:
According to RedBull, they were saying their matte car is more slippery through the air. Don't know how much difference it would actually make though.

I wonder how that's influenced some of their aero work if true. These cars rely on air being attached to a surface so it can be fed into another piece of aero. It's why we don't have a field of cars with golf ball dimples on. I wonder if they've glossed specific channels.

smr · 16 Mar 2016 at 22:58

watching the 2010 oz gp.. I miss that sound :\

413x · 16 Mar 2016 at 23:09

I agree the Renault is a beautiful blast of fresh air in a sea of stagnation
To be fair Ferrari have a striking livery especially when more scarlet
Williams is a nice design

Rest, don't really do it for me.. Especially sauber.. Yuck

But so much grey is crazy
Manor
Haas
Mercedes
Mclaren

All a bit meh

I really really wanted to see the special edition Renault livery in action. I'll see if I can find it

smr · 16 Mar 2016 at 23:20

I really like Red Bull's Livery, beaut

ShakenNstirred · 17 Mar 2016 at 08:23

Just watched the press conference, our UK press really are gutter press.
not one asked questions on F1, they were just looking for a headline about the Snapchat vid etc, no interest in F1 at all

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smr · 17 Mar 2016 at 09:22

Sport Relief Day today, was either this or last season's Leicester City kit - but there's loads of kids in Leicester kits so I went for this