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bloody phillistine.

 

Here's a quick run-down:-

 

BMW have bought Sauber

BMW offered Williams engine

Williams check out Cosworth - it was much better than the BMW

Williams sign up with Cosworth for 1 year.

Rumour is they will go with Toyota next year.

I'm buggering off to Midland in May (Although I may get away in April)

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Sh1t i really am out of touch.. That would be good if they ended up with Toyota engine in the future.

 

Would have worked out nice for some Toyota input on your engine "cough cough" if you stayed, like pinch one lol

 

Yeah would be nice. Especially as I know Mike Gascoyne quite well from our days at Jordan. Two chances of getting info of them though Bob and Feck all.

Engine suppliers tell the teams they supply absolutely nothing about their engines. Even to the point of the only way we know how much HP they have is by running torque sesnors on the driveshafts.

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Bloody right it's sprouting bits everywhere. I've spent feckin' ages adding little bits here and there. It's all downforce in the bag.

2008 reg's though - no winglet's, chimney's, exhaust exit bumps. Basically smooth sidepods like mid '90s. Back to "good ole days", only 2 bodywork updates per year. Seriously, I'm going to be out of a job if it goes ahead.:mad: :banghead: :unfair: :eow:

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is it me or are the F1 cars now just becoming a mess of little winglets to replace the huge big wings they used to be allowed to have? That car seems to be sprouting bits everywhere.

 

JB

 

My avatar is a shot of the car with no suspension, barge-boards (forward or rear), chimney's, exhuast exits, fllip-ups, winglets, rear wing, mid wing, roll-hoop wing, or side impact wings. That's more like what it's going to look like in 2008

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Yeah, good to see they're wasting resource doing that kind of publicity rubbish. Suppose it pays the bills at the end of the day.

It's nice to see a team doing this kind of thing. Pushing different boundries.

From a design point of view I bet you'd quite enjoy that challenge for a change in environment?

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It's nice to see a team doing this kind of thing. Pushing different boundries.

From a design point of view I bet you'd quite enjoy that challenge for a change in environment?

 

They must be very confident about their car's abilities to be able to waste such a massive resource like this.

If you plot downforce gained in a wind tunnel against time, you can see there's a definite upward slope. For the amount of time they had that car in the wind tunnel, that slope would have been flat. Every other teams would have been still advancing. In F1, you've got to keep pushing. The trade off is whether it was worth the publicity, which will generate more revenue, which will in turn be put towards more development. Speculate to accumulate maybe? I guess only time will tell.

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