2012 F1 Car Launch Thread

Providing they can pass the tests and get the car ready in time, then they may be able to do private testing, or certainly a filming day or two, to shakedown the car.

I'd imagine it's quite a stretch getting a car ready now though. Presumably it's the chassis itself which has failed the test, and it can't simply be a case of adding a few more sheets of carbon fibre to the tub. I'd guess if it's the roll-hoop test, then it's a whole lot more complicated too.

I did think it was rather worrying the lack of info about them.

In Soviet Russia, car crash YOU!

When I saw Gav's post I guessed it must be HRT who'd failed it, but it looks like they've got competition for the status of worst F1 team...

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Didn't expect that. They've got some Mclaren help this year, they've had a massive recruitment drive (yet still said no to me :p!) and looked on the up. Still showing F1 on a shoe-string is not an easy thing.

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

The new Ferrari front wing has 5 (five) elements!

Small wonder it's a bit skittish!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/02/2012 07:17PM by gav.

Red Bull have only gone and brought a new car to Barcelona. This barely counts as an aero update!

New exhaust, moved much further back, and very much like the Sauber.




And a funky inlet, presumably feeding the diffuser.



There's also a new front wing and the vanes at the front of the sidepods have been reworked.

HRT are nearly as bad as Marussia: [www.autosport.com]

As the article states, they hope to get a 'filming' day in on Monday. At least it's a step forward...

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GPGSL: S6 - TafuroGP Tester (14th) /// S7 - ART Tester (6th) /// S8 - Demon Driver (13th) /// S9 - Demon/Snake Driver (13th) /// S10 - Snake Driver (???) ///]
"My ambition is handicapped by laziness" - Charles Bukowski

Pfffft, they won't even make that. Even if they take the car it won't be fully ready and by the time they get it ready for it's 1st installation lap the marshalls will have gone home.

Illegal Red Bull "flex wing" mechanism known already from past two seasons broke down today (didn't turn back anymore in slower speed).






Kimi, so, Massa Fernando Sebastian is faster than you. Can you confirm you understood that message?

Marussia apparently plan a filming day at Silverstone on Monday or Tuesday subject to them passing the crash test.

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GPGSL: S6 - TafuroGP Tester (14th) /// S7 - ART Tester (6th) /// S8 - Demon Driver (13th) /// S9 - Demon/Snake Driver (13th) /// S10 - Snake Driver (???) ///]
"My ambition is handicapped by laziness" - Charles Bukowski



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/04/2012 01:22PM by Incident 2k9.

You realise that supposed 'flexi-wing' actually bent down from the centre to the end plates, not from back to front, right?

Angling the wing like that would have zero benefit. You'd lose all downforce and as the angle of attack is larger, you'd also have more drag, and no matter which way you cut it, that's not going to work.

It's a weird failure in the the way it's failed though, so worthy of a bit of head-scratching.

I actually posted it as a joke, but on the other hand.. (Melbourne 2011)





Kimi, so, Massa Fernando Sebastian is faster than you. Can you confirm you understood that message?

RBR actually seem a bit out of sorts, both drivers are not really saying great things about the car either.

What are we looking at in that last pic?

How can you not see the front wing bending or flexing!? First pic, total logo and wing straight, second pic you can clearly see how it moves against the flow of air.

gav Wrote:
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> You realise that supposed 'flexi-wing' actually
> bent down from the centre to the end plates, not
> from back to front, right?
>
> Angling the wing like that would have zero
> benefit. You'd lose all downforce and as the angle
> of attack is larger, you'd also have more drag,
> and no matter which way you cut it, that's not
> going to work.
>
> It's a weird failure in the the way it's failed
> though, so worthy of a bit of head-scratching.

but its not a failure, this is the new wing they are testing today, with that angle

Well yes lol I get that I just wondered what the purpose of the other lines were for.

actually just reading vettels interview it was a wing failure after he ran off the track. but on some live timing sites they said it was a new wing! or maybe i am still wrong?

kubica2 Wrote:
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> gav Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > You realise that supposed 'flexi-wing' actually
> > bent down from the centre to the end plates,
> not
> > from back to front, right?
> >
> > Angling the wing like that would have zero
> > benefit. You'd lose all downforce and as the
> angle
> > of attack is larger, you'd also have more drag,
> > and no matter which way you cut it, that's not
> > going to work.
> >
> > It's a weird failure in the the way it's failed
> > though, so worthy of a bit of head-scratching.
>
> but its not a failure, this is the new wing they
> are testing today, with that angle

It was broken though... Because Seb went off the track and clobbered it on something... So that wasn't the intended angle at all. Things got worse later on when the gearbox failed. All in all not enough mileage today for them to judge what ever upgrades they're running.

Well I'll be damned, they have a car. Of sorts.