Comments on: Decoding a frantic day of Formula 1 action in Valencia

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:44:44 +0000

The flow-vis paint in itself wasn’t what showed that McLaren were struggling 12 months ago.

It was the fact they were using an illegal 2008 higher downforce rear wing, combined with using flow-vis, combined with the very slow laptimes UNLESS they were using this 2008 wing. There were all sorts of fanciful stories going around about “the new 2009 wing will have this much downforce and this 2008 one is just simulating it”, leading to the nickname “magic wing”. But no the aero had problems. I do get a kick out of the interviews now though especially the last few days.. “you knew 12 months ago straight away there was a problem with the car”.. actually some of the PR comments up until the final Barcelona test were hilarious and wouldn’t acknowledge anything. Lewis had an especially embaressing one, if you now look back at it with 20/20 highsight.

The flow-vis in itself is nothing. McLaren have already set good laptimes with the wing the car was launched with. CRISIS AVERTED. You can breathe deeper now McLaren fans.

And last thing, just a little reminder about how meaningless the test times are. Up until the final Barcelona test where it became clear Brawn was easily infront, Ferrari were seen as the quickest winter testing car. Afterwards, they were seen as top 2. And come Melbourne, they were nowhere and had to make a tyre gamble on Sunday because they qualified so far back. You never know what fuel anyone is running, that includes Ferrari.

By: R/T

R/T — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:17:51 +0000

I made a comment based on its appearance, just put the idea to work and remember that every single car in modern F1 with complex design and aero solutions was disputed as “troubled” (MP4 19 in 2004, with its carryovers from the MP4 18, had simply no room for cooling) or “hard to setup” as the most recent example that hideous and complex BMW F1 08, it took them time to fine tune its setup until reaching a front running performance, which they actually managed to, even fighting for that championship

By: Tim Lamkin

Tim Lamkin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:35:25 +0000

…and no one thinks there will be a #1 with Ross…..haha

By: Tim Lamkin

Tim Lamkin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:31:55 +0000

Looking under developed is a bit difficult when it comes to air movement, something that looks good or developed might not work at all in actuality. NO way to make a call with out knowing the data.

By: Trent

Trent — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:24:44 +0000

Yeah I’m dying to know – might Williams use KERS this year? There seemed to be some chance of dissent with regards to the ‘Gentlemans Agreement’ from earlier talk. Frank, Patrick – DO IT!!

By: R.B.

R.B. — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:36:24 +0000

I think Paffet is testing so that he gets to know the car. Should he be needed as a replacement during the season, he would then be less likely to perform another Badoeresque style (c)riding.

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Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:03:13 +0000

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By: Tomek

Tomek — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:39:48 +0000

Firstly you could consider the fact that I wrote ‘once’ which not necessarily meant that it must have been in the F1 years. I admit that I was wrong.
It was data of Lewis that was showed to Kubica, not the other way round. To not be proofless I have found the article I was writing about. And yeah, the author was JA.

Have a nice reading!
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d0e7c146-73dd-11dd-8a66-0000779fd18c.html?nclick_check=1

By: Sami

Sami — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:16:34 +0000

I bet on him too!!!!!!!!!

Forza Massa

By: Oboo

Oboo — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:10:45 +0000

FORZA MASSA