Renault R24B

edit: I've been told the R25 will be launch in monaco, this is an R24B

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/25/2005 02:39PM by DaveEllis.

Great they got last year Mclaren nose,looks like Alonso already did have problems with this new car.

mclaren still the best car so far. renalult rear wing is very shrt isnt it.

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That rear wing is bloody low!

The wing itself isn't that low, but the endplates make it seem that way!

Nice rear wing! Looks like batmobile... lol!

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Dave, where did you get this information?

A guy on another forum

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Sure is the R24B?, a Spanish national sports newspaper says that is the R25 (it wouldn´t be the first time that this newspaper make a mistake)

If its the R25 then they havent done much. Its pretty much exactly the dame converted to the new rules with a thinner nose. The changes are so small that it looks like a 24 at first glance

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I agree

F1Total.com doesn't agree with you Dave; they're reporting it as the R25. Although they seem to agree that it hasn't changed much.

As previously announced, the Renault R25, the French team's new chassis for 2005, completed its first laps in Valencia today (Tuesday). The new car will be presented to the public for the first time on February 1st in Monaco, but as early as today, Fernando Alonso started test-driving the R25 car. However, it was hard to see any striking innovations on it.

The front wing and the area around the nose is more deeply curved than on the R24, but this is mainly due to the rules changes. The curved shape of the sidepods has been retained from 2004, and only slightly changed.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/25/2005 03:25PM by Rubidius.

The spanish national TV who have the rights of the F1 here also say that is the R25, they send this morning a team to Ricardo Tormo circuit and they had a meeting with RenaultF1 Team.

ITV-F1 are also claiming it's the R25. If so, then it looks aerodynamically conservative... BUT their issue last year wasn't with the aero, it was with the skittich handling and understeer, for which the aero is only minorly responislbe.

So this could well be the R25, featuring major upgrades under the skin.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/25/2005 03:40PM by Locke Cole.

The car understeered because of setup. Thats how the car worked best. It didnt hurt it like it should have. It was a very strange car to watch

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reports say that is the r25 fissi was in the r24b

Well, the car is the same, as R24. I dont know, what they were doing all this time.

Everybody thinks is a joke...but it's not. This is what Alonso said: "...Fernando also said the new 'R25' car, to be launched in Monaco in a week, looks similar to the 2004-spec model".

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/25/2005 05:09PM by calimbo.

People laughed at ferrari last year saying the f2004 was the same as the f2003 look what happened there.

It is the R25... it was a shakedown. The official launch will be at Monaco on 1st Feb, so you won't see this car again until then. I guess giving the car a shakedown before the launch has some people confused, but it is the R25.