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Would presume that means Sutil is staying in one of the seats at FI then.
F1 2011 season news / pre-season updates
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Would presume that means Sutil is staying in one of the seats at FI then.
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On the subject of Cosworth, did anyone notice their engines were 100% reliable in 2010 - not one race failure? Quick enough too in the Williams. Not bad for their first year back.
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They learned some interesting things this year too, should be have more power available on race days next season
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Didn't Kovalainen's go pop?
Broken fuel line caused by a collision.
Virgin lost a couple due to overheating, but there was no actual directly attributable failures.
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We've got plenty of those already, so what's one more?
In the next 30 days, you should see most of the team unveil their new cars (if previous years are anything to go by), but obviously the big day will be the first pre-season test. This shall give us a very good idea of what sort of car the teams have produced.
Of particular interest to me is RBR. For the past 2 years, where they have had the 1st or 2nd best car, they have not turned up to the first test. Theoretically, this has robbed them of testing time and should've given their rivals the advantage, however, as we all now know, they produced a great car. This year however, RBR have said that they aim to be present in the first test of the season. Perhaps with the introduction of KERS, they do not feel as confident as they did in the previous 2 seasons.
I said this last year and I shall state the same again this year, providing Ferrari give Alonso a decent car, he has to be favourite for the title. The same will go for Hamilton, who I believe should be better than he was last year (for reasons that some people on this forum will not agree with). Ultimately, it all depends on whether a team (other than Ferrari/McLaren), can produce a car which is 0.5s-1s/lap faster than the competition, to negate the skill advantage which Alonso/Hamilton posses (which is what RBR did last year).
Of particular interest to me is RBR. For the past 2 years, where they have had the 1st or 2nd best car, they have not turned up to the first test. Theoretically, this has robbed them of testing time and should've given their rivals the advantage, however, as we all now know, they produced a great car. This year however, RBR have said that they aim to be present in the first test of the season. Perhaps with the introduction of KERS, they do not feel as confident as they did in the previous 2 seasons.
I said this last year and I shall state the same again this year, providing Ferrari give Alonso a decent car, he has to be favourite for the title. The same will go for Hamilton, who I believe should be better than he was last year (for reasons that some people on this forum will not agree with). Ultimately, it all depends on whether a team (other than Ferrari/McLaren), can produce a car which is 0.5s-1s/lap faster than the competition, to negate the skill advantage which Alonso/Hamilton posses (which is what RBR did last year).
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It'll be interesting to see whether any of the teams use non-battery based KERS systems - the most likely candidate, Williams, have already said they will be using a battery based system - but there do seem to be a number of advantages to the Flywheel systems, and the recent rumours of McLaren not using the Mercedes system are interesting.
How F1 can try to portray KERS as a green technology when you have to throw away battery packs every other race is a bit of a joke - especially if there is a viable alternatives (flywheels and supercapacitors).
Looking at the flybrid site there are several flywheel based options that could be used under the current rules next year:
http://www.flybridsystems.com/Technology.html
http://www.flybridsystems.com/F1System.html
The original Flywheel with CVT gearbox.
http://www.flybridsystems.com/CFTKERS.html
CFT KERS reduces volume and weight (under 18kg).
http://www.flybridsystems.com/flywheelcapacitor.html
The flywheel capacitor system uses a Magneti Marelli electric motor (same as Ferrari and Renault KERS in 2009) but the flywheel instead of batteries to store the energy.
The only downsides seem to be less flexibility in packaging, so presumably an increase in centre of gravity when you can line batteries along the base of the sidepods.
How F1 can try to portray KERS as a green technology when you have to throw away battery packs every other race is a bit of a joke - especially if there is a viable alternatives (flywheels and supercapacitors).
Looking at the flybrid site there are several flywheel based options that could be used under the current rules next year:
http://www.flybridsystems.com/Technology.html
http://www.flybridsystems.com/F1System.html
The original Flywheel with CVT gearbox.
http://www.flybridsystems.com/CFTKERS.html
CFT KERS reduces volume and weight (under 18kg).
http://www.flybridsystems.com/flywheelcapacitor.html
The flywheel capacitor system uses a Magneti Marelli electric motor (same as Ferrari and Renault KERS in 2009) but the flywheel instead of batteries to store the energy.
The only downsides seem to be less flexibility in packaging, so presumably an increase in centre of gravity when you can line batteries along the base of the sidepods.
It's not a rumour. McLaren have said that their system will be more hydraulic than electronic. Most likely running a development of their own hydraulic KERS that they first attempted to run in F1 in 1998
Do you have any more information on this?
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What season are Maclaren spliting with Mercedes? I remember something about them develpoing there own engines
Or did i imagone that happend when Mercedes bought Brawn GP out?
Or did i imagone that happend when Mercedes bought Brawn GP out?
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