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Spencifer_Murphy
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Well MS has to be there. Its his job, he is still officially a Scuderia Ferrari Empolyee. In fact he's officially a "Super Assistant"...

...Whatever-the-hell that is?! :? :lol:
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Principessa
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As di Montezemolo also said this afternoon ( http://www.f1technical.net/news/4659 ) Schumacher was very enthusiastic:

"Michael has already adopted a new mentality; I'd say even a new dimension. This morning he was at the box and listening to the comments of the drivers. I really enjoyed seeing him enthusiastic like that. He could have done something else, but he decided to stay, to contribute to the team. This shows not only his personality but also what kind of relationship he has with Ferrari; it is very personal and reaches very deep."
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Anyone else seeing what i'm seeing? that central outlet... whats that for?
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johny
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i was asking that too, let's see if someone help us
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Looking at all these pics, one pretty trivial thing keeps popping into my head: a $25 million per year sponsorship of Ferrari doesn't get you much.

That's how much Alice is reportedly paying, and they're only getting three small places on the nose and two on the rear.

Oh, and here are some super-hi-res pictures of the car on track at Fiorano.

http://rapidshare.com/files/11860283/FioranoF2007.rar
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if notice the pics which princepessa posted in the gallery, the whole body, and driver seat have been pushed backwords, so the car has actually most of it's wheel base at the front.
as a result, u see that cut in the engine cover, as they have run out of space.. another reason maybe cooling the new all-carbon fiber gearbox
i donno, that's what i could think about:roll:
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Perhaps their new gearbox requires big oil radiator?
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manchild wrote:Perhaps their new gearbox requires big oil radiator?
If that's it, how is that radiator being fed? Only thing apparent is an outlet and the bodywork seems close to the gearbox...
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Perhaps part of the air that enters sidepods is lead trough some ducting to gearbox oil radiator?
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Sawtooth-spike
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Might be linked to the Horizontal Spliter in the air box?

Using its too cool the gear box as Manchild said.

Or it might be for the intercooler for the Turbo they have fitted that is within the rules :wink:
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Nah, why would they bleed precious airbox air to cool something? Best bet is air from sidepods. Instead of piping the gearbox oil forward to the traditional oil cooler, they prefer bringing the air to the gearbox I guess.
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joseff wrote:Nah, why would they bleed precious airbox air to cool something? Best bet is air from sidepods. Instead of piping the gearbox oil forward to the traditional oil cooler, they prefer bringing the air to the gearbox I guess.
The splitter on the intake would suggest that they have two separate airboxes: one for the engine and one for this. This way, they only have to increase section a little to achieve this, no pressure loss on engine intake side.
At first glance, I thought the splitter was there only for pressure leveling purposes, but when 1+1 make 2 (splitter+outlet), it starts making sense...
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joseff
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What does the regbook say about airbox inlet size? Are they allowed to have a bigger-than-normal airbox inlet, because half of it goes elsewhere? If so then they're not "wasting" any intake volume/pressure.

I'm too sleepy to look up the regs myself, sorry :P
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Problem with having the rear-end that compact is heat dissipation, they've had to add more cooling gills to sidepods, as well as that vent.
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joseff wrote:What does the regbook say about airbox inlet size? Are they allowed to have a bigger-than-normal airbox inlet, because half of it goes elsewhere? If so then they're not "wasting" any intake volume/pressure.
Well done joseff! First illegality detected so far in 2007 - That outlet is fake one since splitter isn't splitting anything because all of the air that enters trough that overdimensioned airbox intake ends up in engine! Splitter is just thin, narrow element positioned on front of intake to make us believe it goes all the way back while it spans only few centimeters.

So, they've used same kind of delusional approach - make something and officially claim that it is for purpose it isn't for.

CF ring for cooling brakes in 2006 , bigger airbox inlet for cooling gearbox in 2007. This leads to conclusion that their gearbox isn't revolutionary at all and that story about its unique design was launched only to back up "we need bigger airbox inlet for cooling" story.

Nice try Ferrari but we've seen you trough again! :lol:
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