- Login or Register
No account yet? Sign up
Harman is Technical Director again a Manager.
Rossi
|
Otmar
/ \
Fry Harmen
| |
Chassis Famin
Worker |
Bees PU
Worker
Bees
We know the engine didn't work properly in Bahrain because they changed it for Saudi Arabia and Alonso was much slower than Ocon in the speed traps. Suspect turbo leak.diffuser wrote: ↑30 Mar 2022, 19:30Alonso “I think I have had two great races even if conditioned by bad luck. In Bahrain we were penalized by a less than optimal strategy and an engine that did not work perfectly,"
Confirmation of PU troubles in Bahrain.
https://it.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-al ... i/9459667/
The official satatement that I read pervious to today said that they replaced the PU cause of a leaky gasket. It never confirmed or denied that a performance problem was observed at the Bahrain race. Just they wanted to analyse the PU and that it would be put back into Alonso's inventory at some point in the future.AR3-GP wrote: ↑30 Mar 2022, 19:35We know the engine didn't work properly in Bahrain because they changed it for Saudi Arabia and Alonso was much slower than Ocon in the speed traps. Suspect turbo leak.diffuser wrote: ↑30 Mar 2022, 19:30Alonso “I think I have had two great races even if conditioned by bad luck. In Bahrain we were penalized by a less than optimal strategy and an engine that did not work perfectly,"
Confirmation of PU troubles in Bahrain.
https://it.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-al ... i/9459667/
https://www.autohebdo.fr/actualites/f1/ ... ralie.htmlAlonso forced to use new engine in Australia
After his retirement in Saudi Arabia, Fernando Alonso will board a new engine for the Australian Grand Prix.
Back on the Old Continent, the engineers of the tricolor team were able to get to work to investigate the origin of the problem. Quickly, a guilty element was found. " It's not the engine but the water pump ," explained Laurent Rossi, General Manager of Alpine, during a meeting in Viry-Châtillon. This led to a lack of cooling and subsequently a cascade of events: the engine cooled less, the oil heated up, etc… creating more worries .”
Faced with a major mechanical problem, Alpine hoped to be able to replace the element in question for the Australian Grand Prix (April 10). Unfortunately, the French manufacturer will not be able to carry out its mission and will have to equip Fernando Alonso 's A522 with a new power unit. A big blow after two contested races when the allocation is only 3 engines for the whole season (23 GP) before receiving penalties on the grid.
“ The problem is that this accessory (water pump) is integrated into the engine , emphasizes Laurent Rossi. The water pump eventually disintegrated and fell into the engine. If we had wanted to repair it, we would have had to break the seal. The engine is therefore lost to us. Even if his physical integrity is not directly affected, for us, it is one less engine . »
Wouter wrote: ↑03 Apr 2022, 14:39https://www.autohebdo.fr/actualites/f1/ ... ralie.htmlAlonso forced to use new engine in Australia
After his retirement in Saudi Arabia, Fernando Alonso will board a new engine for the Australian Grand Prix.
Back on the Old Continent, the engineers of the tricolor team were able to get to work to investigate the origin of the problem. Quickly, a guilty element was found. " It's not the engine but the water pump ," explained Laurent Rossi, General Manager of Alpine, during a meeting in Viry-Châtillon. This led to a lack of cooling and subsequently a cascade of events: the engine cooled less, the oil heated up, etc… creating more worries .”
Faced with a major mechanical problem, Alpine hoped to be able to replace the element in question for the Australian Grand Prix (April 10). Unfortunately, the French manufacturer will not be able to carry out its mission and will have to equip Fernando Alonso 's A522 with a new power unit. A big blow after two contested races when the allocation is only 3 engines for the whole season (23 GP) before receiving penalties on the grid.
“ The problem is that this accessory (water pump) is integrated into the engine , emphasizes Laurent Rossi. The water pump eventually disintegrated and fell into the engine. If we had wanted to repair it, we would have had to break the seal. The engine is therefore lost to us. Even if his physical integrity is not directly affected, for us, it is one less engine . »
The first engine probably has a failed seal in the turbo somewhere.diffuser wrote: ↑03 Apr 2022, 17:43Wouter wrote: ↑03 Apr 2022, 14:39https://www.autohebdo.fr/actualites/f1/ ... ralie.htmlAlonso forced to use new engine in Australia
After his retirement in Saudi Arabia, Fernando Alonso will board a new engine for the Australian Grand Prix.
Back on the Old Continent, the engineers of the tricolor team were able to get to work to investigate the origin of the problem. Quickly, a guilty element was found. " It's not the engine but the water pump ," explained Laurent Rossi, General Manager of Alpine, during a meeting in Viry-Châtillon. This led to a lack of cooling and subsequently a cascade of events: the engine cooled less, the oil heated up, etc… creating more worries .”
Faced with a major mechanical problem, Alpine hoped to be able to replace the element in question for the Australian Grand Prix (April 10). Unfortunately, the French manufacturer will not be able to carry out its mission and will have to equip Fernando Alonso 's A522 with a new power unit. A big blow after two contested races when the allocation is only 3 engines for the whole season (23 GP) before receiving penalties on the grid.
“ The problem is that this accessory (water pump) is integrated into the engine , emphasizes Laurent Rossi. The water pump eventually disintegrated and fell into the engine. If we had wanted to repair it, we would have had to break the seal. The engine is therefore lost to us. Even if his physical integrity is not directly affected, for us, it is one less engine . »
Well that sucks. Don't get why they can't use the first ICE. Something they're not letting on?
.diffuser wrote: ↑03 Apr 2022, 17:43.Wouter wrote: ↑03 Apr 2022, 14:39https://www.autohebdo.fr/actualites/f1/ ... ralie.htmlAlonso forced to use new engine in Australia
After his retirement in Saudi Arabia, Fernando Alonso will board a new engine for the Australian Grand Prix.
Back on the Old Continent, the engineers of the tricolor team were able to get to work to investigate the origin of the problem. Quickly, a guilty element was found. " It's not the engine but the water pump ," explained Laurent Rossi, General Manager of Alpine, during a meeting in Viry-Châtillon. This led to a lack of cooling and subsequently a cascade of events: the engine cooled less, the oil heated up, etc… creating more worries .”
Faced with a major mechanical problem, Alpine hoped to be able to replace the element in question for the Australian Grand Prix (April 10). Unfortunately, the French manufacturer will not be able to carry out its mission and will have to equip Fernando Alonso 's A522 with a new power unit. A big blow after two contested races when the allocation is only 3 engines for the whole season (23 GP) before receiving penalties on the grid.
“ The problem is that this accessory (water pump) is integrated into the engine , emphasizes Laurent Rossi. The water pump eventually disintegrated and fell into the engine. If we had wanted to repair it, we would have had to break the seal. The engine is therefore lost to us. Even if his physical integrity is not directly affected, for us, it is one less engine . »
Well that sucks. Don't get why they can't use the first ICE. Something they're not letting on?
The first PU issue was diagnosed at the end of Bahrain. It would be 3 weeks since then. That seems like a lot of time?
.
Regarding the engine used in Bahrain at the start of the 2022 campaign, the French team should be able
to reuse it later in the year as it had announced before the Grand Prix of Saudi Arabia.
Turbo is a separate part from the ICE.
Looks pretty accurate. AMuS said the same in their latest article regarding the topic: https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/for ... ackierung/