I'm loving Kimi's new helmet........need to see more of it though.
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On the fifth day of testing at Jerez de la Frontera, Williams F1 Team driver Kazuki Nakajima was the fastest man on track with a lap time of 1:17.494. McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen clocked a fastest lap of 1:17.933.
They weren't making a fuss over that gadget. McLaren added a updated front wing. They are running a 4 plane wing now. Thats what had the other teams so interested. So all the fuss wasn't over nothing.Sawtooth-spike wrote:Alot of fuss over nothing?marinopc wrote: That's the reason why everybody is looking the nose of the Mclaren. What's that gadget¿?
we can see Ferrari are running the same thing.
Mclaren are using the end plates to push air around the tires, so i am gussing this is helping with that maybe linking up with those odd hubs of theres.
Who is referring to Hamilton as "The English"?"15:21 pm English has with his rear wing on the outside of the curve 4 and has broken. In fact, it has been released in its entirety. Nevertheless, we have seen how Hamilton came out on his own foot. Does not seem to have problems."
It's a bad translation - should be Englishman.captainmorgan wrote:Who is referring to Hamilton as "The English"?"15:21 pm English has with his rear wing on the outside of the curve 4 and has broken. In fact, it has been released in its entirety. Nevertheless, we have seen how Hamilton came out on his own foot. Does not seem to have problems."
Heh))))Bob Brown wrote:
cool picture......anyone happen to have a hires of it?
and looks like kimi had an off today too.
Major problems, as I said before...Rikhart wrote:Id say this late into the pre season, they are having MAJOR problems. Not only is it not reliable, pace is bad as well. Do we finally get to see lewis with a dog of a car? That would be fun.
The gadget on the endplates seems like a heat exchanger to me, with all the horizontal fins. It could be for the actuation of the front wing. Or just a very bulky turning vane.marinopc wrote:That's the reason why everybody is looking the nose of the Mclaren. What's that gadget¿?
Doubt that they were using 2010 tires, they were running the new brake ducts + rims today (on the pictures I have found) and the general consensus is that they can't use them on the 2010 tires because of a missmatch in dimensions. But its nothing confirmed.Spencifer_Murphy wrote:I'm not so sure Mclaren are in such deep trouble...we never saw this level of unreliability before (granted it could be that they've only started to push the car now) and at other tests they seemed competitive even when they occasionally (how wierd is that?!) used this year's rear wing.
I just read on GPupdate that they've been running 2010 rubber again today, could be the reason for:
1. Slow times
2. Lewis eating up his rears
3. Lewis loosing the car
unfortunately that doesn't explain:
1. Why they still use 2008 spec rear wings
2. Why they've been unreliable
I can only imagine the unreliability is linked to using KERS (maybe they haven't done so, or at least done as much, recently).
To me it looks like plastic, as if they've been sent the improvements to make from the factory and obviously couldnt re-make a whole new wing.yzfr7 wrote:marinopc wrote:That's the reason why everybody is looking the nose of the Mclaren. What's that gadget¿?
