Andrew P Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 Williams New Livery. https://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/28721237/williams-reveals-2020-car-new-livery 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted February 17, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 17, 2020 1 hour ago, Pete the Elaner said: I usually cringe when I hear the term 110%, but in this context it makes sense. 100% is perfection. Anything more is out of control. I think the commentators refer to "overdriving" the car. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 When I do it, it's called crashing... C6T. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 Racing Point, Still VERY pink. https://www.racefans.net/2020/02/17/first-pictures-racing-point-presents-its-new-look-for-2020/ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Kingzance Posted February 17, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 17, 2020 26 minutes ago, Andrew P said: Racing Point, Still VERY pink. https://www.racefans.net/2020/02/17/first-pictures-racing-point-presents-its-new-look-for-2020/ Well, well, well! I have just read through the article and couldn't resist that . 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Storey Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 4 hours ago, Andrew P said: Williams New Livery. https://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/28721237/williams-reveals-2020-car-new-livery No Go Faster stripes. That isn't going to work....... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianwales Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 Noticed earlier that Sky F1 are showing the test sessions live from 8am Wednesday morning. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 41 minutes ago, Mike Storey said: No Go Faster stripes. That isn't going to work....... Martini weren't interested this season, they don't make a gin sloe enough...b'dum tish! Aythangyow... C6T. 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 On 17/02/2020 at 11:46, Andrew P said: Williams New Livery. https://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/28721237/williams-reveals-2020-car-new-livery 20 hours ago, Mike Storey said: No Go Faster stripes. That isn't going to work....... Nor will writing 'Rokit' on it. Even if they spelt it correctly... 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted February 19, 2020 Author Share Posted February 19, 2020 Now this is pretty, I do like that Red that the REAL Alfa Team use, absolutely stunning IMHO. https://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/28734168/alfa-romeo-unveils-2020-car-ahead-first-test 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RedgateModels Posted February 19, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 19, 2020 Quote from the BBC online coverage of testing Quote Posted at 8:168:16 Illness halts Vettel Sebastian Vettel was meant to take part in the testing session today for Ferrari - but is feeling unwell, so Charles Leclerc will drive instead. Sick of his teamate???? 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted February 19, 2020 Author Share Posted February 19, 2020 (edited) HAAS looks nice too. https://www.racefans.net/2020/02/19/haas-vf-20-debut/ Edited February 19, 2020 by Andrew P 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
didcot Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 First morning of testing and no break downs. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted February 19, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 19, 2020 37 minutes ago, didcot said: First morning of testing ....and the Williams was less than a second slower than the fastest, Bottas, and faster than several others. 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERandBR Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 I do hope Williams improve this year. Would be nice to see them at least able to fight regularly with the other teams. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete the Elaner Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 It looks like Kubica was driving Raikkonen's car. That seems a bit strange. If I were an F1 driver, I would want to familiarise myself with the new car as quickly as possible. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold StuAllen Posted February 19, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 19, 2020 4 hours ago, Pete the Elaner said: It looks like Kubica was driving Raikkonen's car. That seems a bit strange. If I were an F1 driver, I would want to familiarise myself with the new car as quickly as possible. Just watching the Sky F1 ‘Story So Far’ summarising the day, Christian Horner was saying in his interview that the teams are only allowed to bring one car - he also said they have more engineers and mechanics at testing as they also have a night shift getting the car set up tomorrow’s testing. Also Mercedes have brought some innovative design to the rear suspension to increase the rear downforce - should be interesting to see how that all pans out in Australia. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sidecar Racer Posted February 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 20, 2020 Now this could be interesting . 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RedgateModels Posted February 20, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 20, 2020 Very interesting snippet gleaned from the BBC's coverage of testing Quote Racing Point’s technical director Andy Green has spoken to the media. Naturally, he was asked about the 2020 Racing Point RP20 looking like last year’s Mercedes W10. “It shares some resemblance in some areas,” Green said. “Lots of cars look like other cars and I don’t think ours is particularly different to anybody else’s. We've seen a change from where we were last year. We saw where the RP19 was developing to, it wasn’t making the gains we were hoping for. It was clear if we carried on, we weren't going to end up where we finished in the championship last year. That wasn’t going to be acceptable. “We have one more year left in these regulations. It was time to try something new, to take a risk, and we've taken a very, very big risk with what we've done with the car. It made sense to do what we've done, to take the underlying architecture we’ve had for many years. We've been using their [Mercedes] gearbox since 2014. We're a year behind with their gearbox and always have been. “As we found in the last few years, trying to develop the Red Bull philosophy, the high rake philosophy, which lots of people have emulated, became increasingly difficult with the gearbox we have from MGP. They are a different philosophy, a lower rake philosophy, than anyone on the grid. It's difficult to try and shoehorn and develop around a different philosophy from the underlying architecture that you have." The rules dictate that teams have to design the aerodynamic surfaces of their cars themselves, and Green insists that, despite the obvious similarity, that's what has happened. “We decided to take a risk, to tear up what we've done in the past few years and start again from scratch from what we could see what MGP have been doing. There's nothing special in the information we've got, all we've got is what we see - that's what we started from and what we developed from. I don’t know whether it's going to pay off. I don’t think what we’ve done is new as far as taking a team’s concept and doing it ourselves. That has been prolific in F1 since the earliest days.” So it seems that Merc's low rake design has been dictated by their gearbox rather than any desire to strive for a different approach. It may be that this controlling factor has lead them and now RP/Aston Martin down this path ..... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 57xx Posted February 20, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 20, 2020 24 minutes ago, RedgateModels said: So it seems that Merc's low rake design has been dictated by their gearbox rather than any desire to strive for a different approach. It could just as easily be that the gearbox was designed around using a low rake, making unsuitable for high rake geometry. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Radford Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 I thought this year's Merc had more of a rake angle. (that was what I was posting about previously but couldn't think of the word!) As far as the push pull steering wheel goes - it's not on a Ferrari so it is illegal... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 Merc's driver moveable steering rack looks interesting. I expect there will be intense FIA scrutiny to discover if it infringes any existing regulation. Since it likely carries a weight penalty to implement - the rack should only move in the designed path but otherwise should be 'rigid' relative to the car structure - that would imply either some weight saving has been possible elsewhere, or the car otherwise had to be ballasted to come up to the minimum dry weight. At least there's a simple out if it is determined illegal, bolt up solid; and I would be surprised if Merc haven't designed for that, as on a circuit like Monaco that might well be the best configuration. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted February 20, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 20, 2020 Merc are hardly sandbagging so far. Lewis has set FTD - on harder tyres than most, C2. Kimi has come closest, but on ultra-softs, C5. The Ferraris appear very ordinary so far, with Vettel being a second off Kimi's best, but on C4, two levels softer than Lewis's time. This morning Lewis did 106 laps on the C1 hardest compound, but was only a second off the pace, set in that session by Perez, on C3. Reliability appears generally good, which it should be for a new season of little change. 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejstubbs Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 17 hours ago, Oldddudders said: Reliability appears generally good Oops: Sebastian Vettel breaks down and stops in the middle of the track. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted February 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 21, 2020 46 minutes ago, ejstubbs said: Oops: Sebastian Vettel breaks down and stops in the middle of the track. My heart bleeds...... 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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