***Official 2010 F1 thread***

[Duke]

Will arrange a walkabout later in the year if your interested.

Would be good to arrange a mini meet

 

[Sparky]

Would be good to arrange a mini meet

Naturally mate, you would be welcome to tag along.

 

[Glaucus]

Slight problem, got it installed but virgin internet is currently out in Bristol. So maybe tonight or early afternoon tomorrow. Just depends when it's fixed.

 

[TaKeN]

Anyone know what time first practise is?

 

[Kevin Clark]

Anyone know what time first practise is?

Practice 1 FRI 01:30
Practice 2 FRI 05:30
Practice 3 SAT 03:00
Qualifying SAT 06:00
Race SUN 07:00

 

[[TW]Taggart]

Slight problem, got it installed but virgin internet is currently out in Bristol. So maybe tonight or early afternoon tomorrow. Just depends when it's fixed.

I'ts all ok south of the river in beddy.

 

[Teq]

early mornings for me this weekend then!

 

[Glaucus]

Sorry about this, they have to send another engineer out, do if Duke could do a thread for this week, would be much appreciated.

 

[Duke]

No probs, will do one shortly

 

[6thElement]

From the Beeb:

Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone says he is hopeful there will be a grand prix in New York from 2012. Full story: Gazzetta dello Sport

Just lol at the logistics of trying to do that and he clearly hasn't seen the quality of the roads lately

 

[Baboonanza]

And surely it would have to be around the old bit of Manhatten (ie the most difficult bit to do), since everywhere else is a grid system.

The road through Central Park would be pretty spectacular actually...

 

[Blackvault]

And surely it would have to be around the old bit of Manhatten (ie the most difficult bit to do), since everywhere else is a grid system.

The road through Central Park would be pretty spectacular actually...

From the autosport article, Bernie Ecclestone wants it to take place in New Jesery so that the background would be lower Manhattan and the skyscrapers.

Blackvault

 

[qwerty]

I'm going to the Malaysian GP!!!!! Very excited! Need to buy tickets - any suggestions for where is best?

 

[Sparky]

I know a man

Phone the circuit.

 

[qwerty]

I know a man

Phone the circuit.

=tickets for the Red Bull garage!?

 

[Sparky]

Duke usually has those

 

[JUMPURS]

I dunno if it has been mentioned before, but Mclaren had a vent like the one their F-Duct uses, on Lewis Hamilton's car in Australia in 2008. But it seems only that car ad that race?

Check out the pics of lewis' car on the F1 site.

http://www.formula1.com/gallery/race/2008/787/

 

[xen_]

Doubt that it's for the same function, there isn't a shark fin channel thing to dump the air on the rear wing. I am curious what it is for though, maybe for cooling something.

 

[Flibster]

McLaren have said that the system was in development for 2 years.

 

[xen_]

I would've thought that they wouldn't have put it on show that early though, I'm sure rival designers would have picked up on that and wondered why it's there unless it has an obvious other function. Maybe they could have implemented it last year, but they were probably focusing on getting the basics of the car up to a decent level and it perhaps wasn't worth giving away their secret when they didn't have chance at either championship, Abu Dhabi massive straight with KERS and F-duct would've been nice to see though.