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Tom
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I can't see anything, are they testing all day through?
Murphy's 9th Law of Technology:
Tell a man there are 300 million stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.
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manchild
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Timstr
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Pretty unusual at this stage,
but McLaren were testing today with rear wing supports similar to the RA106 and F248.
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manchild
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Timstr wrote:Pretty unusual at this stage,
but McLaren were testing today with rear wing supports similar to the RA106 and F248.
Kimi is doing great spying job already :lol:
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BreezyRacer
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Doesn't that rear wing look especially low on the McLaren? They must have some super tight bodywork to make all that happen.
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McLaren HQ at Barcelona
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Principessa
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Nice pics...You took them?
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f1.redbaron
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manchild wrote:
Kimi is doing great spying job already :lol:
On the subject of spying, isn't that a Renault man spying on my Toyota?

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joseff
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Where's Spyker?
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Principessa
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They won't be testing before Christmas. It was announced by Colin Kolles in an interview, that you can find here in the newssection :wink: !
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vyselegend
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joseff wrote:Where's Spyker?
They were the only team not due to test this week, I think I read that on formula1.com last week.
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Principessa
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All the teams tested this week indeed, but Spyker will only do so in January! I think it's odd as they have a lot of work to do with the new car (as a 'new' team)! I don't quite understand why they aren't testing, as they need it :?
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i think spyker are messed up.. i don't mean the current team, but the old jordan team structure... it's the third year in a row, and they keep changing engines, chassies and even OWNERS!!!this can't be good in f1..
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johny
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seing SA progression, it's so probably to see them at the end of the grid
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Principessa wrote: All the teams tested this week indeed, but Spyker will only do so in January! I think it's odd as they have a lot of work to do with the new car (as a 'new' team)! I don't quite understand why they aren't testing, as they need it :?
The problem is probably that the Ferrari engine wouldn’t fit in this year car without major work that they can’t (or prefer not to) afford, so have to wait for the new one.
Toyota engine probably isn’t available anymore, it depends by what kind of contract they had (till end of season or till end of year), but it seems to me that the relationship between the two parts didn’t end well.
Timstr wrote: Pretty unusual at this stage,
but McLaren were testing today with rear wing supports similar to the RA106 and F248.
It looks like in the central part there are sort of vortex generators on the suction side.
And also the front wing has a pretty interesting feature regarding the nosecone mounts ;-)
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