2009 car launches thread

@everyone complaining about the comparison picture: here's the link to the 'source', register on that forum and complain to the author

[www.pitlanefanatic.com]

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No complaints - I'm grateful (I guess) that someone's put the effort in. Just advising people here that it's useless for determining fine details.

Disclaimer: These are for approximation only, in no way am I trying to convince a court of appeal that I can measure the wheelbase to 4 decimal places.

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"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL

Rbr are going to show up Renault big time.

Todays testing their car was very fast in its first proper test.

I have a feeling the teams are going to be a lot closer this year.

I also have this feeling the Webber will not be ready to race in Australia, we shall see but reading his interview yesterday it did not sound so good.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/10/2009 06:24PM by marcl.

marcl Wrote:
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> Rbr are going to show up Renault big time.
>
> Todays testing their car was very fast in its
> first proper test.
>
> I have a feeling the teams are going to be a lot
> closer this year.
>
> I also have this feeling the Webber will not be
> ready to race in Australia, we shall see but
> reading his interview yesterday it did not sound
> so good.


indeed Rbr seems fast.I don't know if teams will be closer than they were last year... I doubt it. Mark will test wednesday so we shall see if he is going to be ready to race in Melbourne.

maybe Newey designed the back so low so he can design a sort of small winglet inside the rear wing and help with some rear stability.

VORTEX GENERATORS (tm)

Webber can not get out the car in 7 seconds at the moment and had rods put in his leg. If he crashes he is putting his walking at risk. He should do what MS and Panis done and dont rush back, not for testing anyway.

no high res pics of red bull?

loque schreef:
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> no high res pics of red bull?

There you go:


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And some say... he's so offensive he could get you into trouble...
The only thing we know is that he's called...

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Felipe Massa, World Champion 15:34:11pm- 15:34:21pm.

LOL Sapo!

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/10/2009 10:38PM by EC83.

Speaking of Red Bull and large: Adrian Newey gave this RB5 the largest frontwings and rearwingendplates ever, and which slogan RBR puts on the smallest wing they have (the rearwing): Gives you Wings.

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Some say... he's even smaller than 20kb.
And some say... he's so offensive he could get you into trouble...
The only thing we know is that he's called...

THE SIG


Felipe Massa, World Champion 15:34:11pm- 15:34:21pm.

haha

RBR will be my favourite car next to macca,i have a feeling that RBR will dominate this year!

expect the unexpected!

2 Hot 2 Handle.

MS-


KR -



"You must always pick the worst car and the worst team on the grid, to be the best."
—Fangio

here are some f1-live hi-res images

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So far Webber has been doing fine and is faster with his RBR05 than MP4-24 with 2008 rearwing.


2. M. Webber Red Bull Racing RB5 1:21.321 +2.618 34 pit
3. H. Kovalainen McLaren MP4-24 1:21.324 +2.621 24 pit
4. K. Nakajima Williams FW31 1:22.157 +3.454 32 pit
5. N. Piquet Jr. Renault R29 1:22.826 +4.123 19 pit

Yeah, but it seems by the "+2.618" there were also some or one car(s) quite a lot faster...

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Some say... he's even smaller than 20kb.
And some say... he's so offensive he could get you into trouble...
The only thing we know is that he's called...

THE SIG


Felipe Massa, World Champion 15:34:11pm- 15:34:21pm.

Sapo Wrote:
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> Yeah, but it seems by the "+2.618" there were also
> some or one car(s) quite a lot faster...


ehm Buemi with 2008 car but that can't be counted as he should be about 3-4 seconds faster with that car.

A sandstorm has arrived @ Bahrain... first time in three years.



I bet its a sunny and dry day @ Jerez atm. hahaha.

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Whoa... Imagine if that happened there during the GP

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There is a pic on f1-live of a bmw coming through the storm.