I think your forgetting its a Mercedes engine wich is known to be very reliable, and a car that has been in development for probubly 13 or 14 months... its the best prepaired car on the grid.
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I think your forgetting its a Mercedes engine wich is known to be very reliable, and a car that has been in development for probubly 13 or 14 months... its the best prepaired car on the grid.
The engine and gearbox is not the one they were working on putting in the car for 09. Plus by out of the box I mean this is completely new regulations and they have put a car together with all that crap in the back ground that is simply stunning.
Plus it doesn't matter how long they have spent on the 09 car as honda showed time and time again it means little until it turns a wheel.
agreed, the suspension in a f1 is top of the range at doing its job if it wasnt the smallest bump would spear the f1 car off the track
He's got a distance to go before he gets to The Stig though.. unless he is the Stig?!! no one knows!
He cant be thestig, at least i hope not.
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what i love is theirs a restriction to money they can chuck at the cars thsi season , so ferrai and mclaren cant solve their problems with hundreds of hours of testing and lots of money..
so theyll have to rely on skill and brains, which could mean fer. are offically screwed if todays tyre choice is anything to go by
No restriction whatsoever on what they can spend if they have it. The rules are coming in next year (allegedly) and even then will be optional. The only restriction is on-track testing (except straight line, which is allowed for 8 days in-season) and use of only 1 wind tunnel @ 50% scale (IIRC).
They have limited time in the wind tunnel which will force them to work on only a few lines of possbilities instead of craming tunels with multiple designs like the major teams do every year.
isnt the restriction on money being optional a complete waste of time as the poorer teams will stick to it and the rich ones will spend tones of cash creating the massive difference in teams like weve seen in the past.
hmm, sound sensible but someone will try to cheat aka renault, by saying outside resreached equipment shouldnt be counted in the spenditure of the car.
Yeah that was my understanding too, or that you had more freedom on testing.
Thing is, for £30m a year, how will you be able to afford to develop more stuff?
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Precisely what I thought when I heard the idea. Teams can either spend what they want but have tighter rules or spend less but have more technical freedom, but with less money to exploit it?
Me no comprende the logic there.
Buy chosing a area such as aerodynamics and constrating on that area, which probally mean we wont have a lot of engine developement till they bring in a v6 regualtion...
Engines are frozen anyway, and id expect all the £30m budget teams to be customer teams aswell.
But developing Aero isnt exactly cheap.... :/
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I bet it's not even the diffusers that make the brawns quicker. They all have different wings, I just think it is the combination of everything that makes brawns quicker.
Damn Skeeter, still posting 
Yep, I read it somewhere that the Diffuser was around 10 - 20% of it's speed advantage in Australia. Will try to find it again.
Yep, I read it somewhere that the Diffuser was around 10 - 20% of it's speed advantage in Australia. Will try to find it again.
It's definately not just the diffuser making Brawn quick. Today Jenson had to put in some very fast laps to leap frog Rosberg and Trulli in the first pitstop phase.
The laps he put in were a full second faster AND he was carrying more fuel AND his soft tyres were worn after 16 laps... He ended up coming out in front by a huge distance after his stop. Impressive. Very Schumi/Brawn-esque.
If he had not done this then he wouldn't have won the race because shortly after that it started raining
The laps he put in were a full second faster AND he was carrying more fuel AND his soft tyres were worn after 16 laps... He ended up coming out in front by a huge distance after his stop. Impressive. Very Schumi/Brawn-esque.
If he had not done this then he wouldn't have won the race because shortly after that it started raining
Something that has just jumped into my head.... how closely tied were Brawn and Schumacher? What are the posibilities of Schumi joining Brawn in some capacity? Consultant, strategy, etc etc etc? Or has he trully sold his soul to Ferrari for the rest of his life?
Oh God, please no. At least send that arrogant knob to McLaren so cheaters can stick together.
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