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The Formula 1 2011/2012 Off-Season Thread |OT| The Year of the Red Bull
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Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
It certainly looks like an elegant solution. I wonder how many teams will adopt a similar design.
The general concept isn't banned, but like you said the exhaust position is restricted. I believe the off throttle engine modes have been banned or heavily reduced in effectiveness as well so the overall performance of the system will be decreased significantly.
Part two?
Nice looking machine, but it will probably change till Melbourne
Also interesting info, that they used U-shaped sidepods due to their exhaust mumbo-jumbo last year.
Part two?
Nice looking machine, but it will probably change till Melbourne
Also interesting info, that they used U-shaped sidepods due to their exhaust mumbo-jumbo last year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YkEXpX1U4s&list=UUMu2dVFY3Q3iDM0XayFpDxw&index=1&feature=plcp
RomanticHeroX
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I'm glad at least one team won't be running with a duck nose.
Myoclonic Jerk
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nice !!
where did Johnny Walker go? who the hell is Lucozade??!
Sutil calls lewis "not a man", "coward", and he doesn't "want to be friends with someone like that"
where did Johnny Walker go?
who the hell is Lucozade??!Sutil calls lewis "not a man", "coward", and he doesn't "want to be friends with someone like that"
Diablohead
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Edmond Dantès;34742303 said:
someone looks doped up
Walker is on rear mirrorsnice !!
where did Johnny Walker go?
Sutil calls lewis "not a man", "coward", and he doesn't "want to be friends with someone like that"
Lucozade is another sport/energy drink company
Sutil should spend more time behind piano or chasing dolphins or stabbing random folk from Lotus in their necks.
We will have forum meltdown if RBR releases such photos of their drivers lol
nice !!
where did Johnny Walker go?
Sutil calls lewis "not a man", "coward", and he doesn't "want to be friends with someone like that"
Johnnie Walker is still on the overalls. Lucozade is a brand of energy drinks.
Funny to see the Wikipedia page already updated.nice !!
where did Johnny Walker go?
Sutil calls lewis "not a man", "coward", and he doesn't "want to be friends with someone like that"
I don't blame Hamilton at all for not going since it's a weird situation to be in.
Myoclonic Jerk
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I never regarded Sutil as a good driver, even Fisico was better. Spa 2009 was enough
Lewis is an disloyal, superficial friend? Suprise.
Jessica was helping JB out with his modelling tips before the photo shoot.
By kissing the life out of him.........
:-(
Psychotext
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If that post had been about Webber then the face would have had a completely different meaning.
Forever Alone GAF unite!
mclaren777
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You guys should check out this detail gallery if you haven't already...
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2012/02/01/mclaren-mp4-27-2012-f1-car-pictures/
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2012/02/01/mclaren-mp4-27-2012-f1-car-pictures/
brotkasten
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It's not like you should have a problem finding a new girl, Fernando.
Oh, wait, you already have a new one!
I still think you two look kinda similar. You should grow a beard for better comparison pics.
mclaren777
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The MP4-27 definitely has tighter rear bodywork.
I can only grow a decent goatee and mustache. Sucks man! Someone buy me Ferrari merchandising!
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yeah, like this:
Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
It seems as though the Lewis Hamilton detractors are using the Sutil case as another excuse to lambast Lewis. Calling him all manner of things, it's quite disheartening really, I hope this doesn't distract Lewis from his pre-season preparations, because he needs to get his head straight after last year's melancholia.
brotkasten
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Edmond Dantès;34760345 said:
If this shit really distracts him, he needs to quit.
Right.
brotkasten
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Truth is, after the MP4/27 launch, Ferrari is so embarrassed of their own design, that they don't want the press to see it. They'll just release a shot of the front and back, no profile shots either.
Sky Sports will show GP2 & GP3 live
http://www1.skysports.com/formula-1/news/12433/7474325/
http://www1.skysports.com/formula-1/news/12433/7474325/
Awesome! Sky are really going all out to get everything they can for F1 fans
Would still prefer BBC
Autosport's technical analysis of the MP4-27 (Written by Scarbs)
McLaren became the second Formula 1 team to unveil its car on Tuesday, when the covers came off the MP4-27 at its factory in Woking.
Although we have already caught our first glimpse of a 2012 machine through Caterham's renders in F1 Racing last week, there was much interest in the McLaren launch because it was going to be the first of the top teams to show us how the new rules affect the look of the cars.
The MP4-27 is not a radical departure from the team's previous challengers and the team does not appear to have adopted an aggressive approach to the new rules. However, the car is a very tidy and logical development of the team's 2011 car.
Immediately it is apparent that McLaren has taken a different direction to Caterham with its treatment of the nose. McLaren has over the past few seasons gone for a relatively low nose, and the new car duly follows this principal. The detachable nose cone is able to sit below the 55cm maximum height that the rules allow without an ugly step.
McLaren's technical director Paddy Lowe explained that this approach places the mass of the nose lower and enables it to fit its preferred front suspension geometry.
While the nose concept is carried over from 2011, the distinctive "U" shaped sidepods of the MP4-26 have been dropped. Rather than the angled sidepod inlets, that formed a channel along the top of the sidepod, the sidepods now sport a wide and high inlet.
This allows a large undercut beneath the radiators, to feed air to the rear of the car. Again Lowe explains that McLaren's desire for a slim rear end and top central cooling outlet made it hard to package the "U" sidepod.
In fact, it is the new rules on exhausts that have created the strangest add-on to the MP4-27 - the exhaust bulge. Exhausts must now exit at least 20cm above the floor, and the final 10cm of exhaust is defined in terms of the angle it can point upward at.
McLaren has chosen to place the exhaust as low and far from the car's centreline as possible, and then angled it steeply upwards to point towards the rear wing. It is possible that this design will help create a blown rear wing, bringing a useful gain in downforce when so much grip has been lost from the banning of exhaust blown diffusers.
Lowe confirmed the exhaust fairing and its outlet position will be changed, as different ideas are tried in testing.
Other details are new mirrors for better rearward visibility, revised cooling around the roll hoop for the gearbox and KERS. There is also a new set of wheels, featuring a series of drilled holes around the rim which, when allied to the ring shaped fairings (missing at the launch), will aid brake cooling.
The car will undergo straight-line tests at the hands of Oliver Turvey over the weekend, before making its public testing debut in Jerez next week.
Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
Ferrari to use OZ wheels in 2012.
http://www.yallaf1.com/2012/02/01/new-f1-ferrari-to-sport-oz-wheels/
http://www.yallaf1.com/2012/02/01/new-f1-ferrari-to-sport-oz-wheels/
brotkasten
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Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
Rosso corsa livery and gold rims is a classic Ferrari combination.
Foliorum Viridum
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Will the Sky Sports F1 channel be on the 360?
Cos my brother has a Sky Sports package with no 360, so I could nick the login info from him...
Cos my brother has a Sky Sports package with no 360, so I could nick the login info from him...
Don't see any reason why it shouldn't be.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
He said he'll grab the login info for me so hopefully it will be!
If not, I'll still have Sky on my 360 for free. Not sure why I never thought of it before to be honest.
If not, I'll still have Sky on my 360 for free. Not sure why I never thought of it before to be honest.
Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
Doubtful.
Could also use it on your PC with Sky Go if you're not already.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
I shall definitely do that
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