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Hello all to you!


I have been following this forum some months now with non registered and now finally decided to register and have a word. Ive noticed that a lot of you guys are worried about the pace of the MGP but im not. I have been following the tests and the times and IMO there is no need to worry because Nico and Michael have been showing basically the same times as other teams(by other teams i mean Red Bull, Ferrari and Mclaren). What i found really interesting was on Wednesday when after the red flag with just 15 minutes left to the end of the session it was very interesting to follow the times of Schumi, Hamilton, Vettel and Massa. Hamilton was the fastest lapping in 1.23s and Schumi, Vettel and Massa lapping in 1.24s. Schumi was faster than Vettel and Massa in 1.24s and finally got down to 1.23s while Vettel and Massa stayed in the 1.24s and Hamilton finally dropped down to 1.24s too. i know that it was just a 15 minutes and not a lot of laps and we dont know the fuel loads but i guess they must have been on pretty similar fuel loads when they showed pretty similar lap times. And on friday Schumi and Webber showed the whole day basically the same lap times both lapping in 1.22-1.23, except Webbers short stint in 1.19s. And on Saturday the four guys Nico, Webber, Alonso and Button were running in 1.21-1.22s and in 1.23s-1.25s. i was very bored and i calculated the average of the times


Lighter car Heavier

Rosberg 21,860 24,7

Alonso 21,942 24,102

Button 21,554 25,003

Webber 22,436 24,529



For the lighter car times i took the times up to 1.22 and for the heavier car 1.23-1.25. Of course i dont know the fuel loads but anyway i did the calculations.

The only thing that im worried about is that Alonso, Massa and Button, they dont mention Mercedes in interviews when they are asked which car looks fast and they certainly know more than we here i think. But anyway i think that Mercedes hasnt just showed their cards yet and when they add the new front wing and the diff. they will be very very fast. But this is just my point of view.

Again from Raptor22 from F1technical:
The radiator cores are actually quite heavy.
Hence they are often positioned as close to the driver as possible. Remember you have upwards of 10-15kg of cooling fluid circulating through them.
Shifting that about has a marked effect on weight distribution.

Hmm, cooling fluid? I thought F1 cars were entirely air-cooled.

Hmm, cooling fluid? I thought F1 cars were entirely air-cooled.

Hmm, cooling fluid? I thought F1 cars were entirely air-cooled.

Well, they are, indirectly ...

I doubt such a high performance engine will work air-cooled..

I am a bit surprised that F1 fans ask such questions ...

they have problems while @idle rpm even today with liquid cooled engines.

I'm sorry. I vaguely recall reading in the 2001 Tech Regs (which I had printed at the time), that an F1 car must be air-cooled. Coupled with the fact that cars always had issues when standing still, I thought that air must have been at least the primary means of cooling. I know full well that a liquid, particularly a high-performance cooling liquid, can abduct thermal energy much better than air.

Obviously I must have been wrong about what I read in the tech regs that many years ago....perhaps confused it with the air induction issue (no forced induction).

So, do they have a regular cooling fluid radiator similar in philosophy to that of our ordinary cars?

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P.S. Come to think of it.....I'm fairly sure I remember drivers having issues with their water temperature, at one time or another..

I must have suffered some sort of brain-fade..

This must be it. I guess what I remember the rules saying is, ventilator fans are not allowed..In other words the car may be cooled using only the natural flow of the air around it.

huge dissapointment , not very ambitious to use same wing as last year

http://cdn.images.autosport.com/editorial/1267088777.jpg


Front wing the same?

Well if it works ...

No, nobody is going to be running any new parts on the first day.

They will run today in "old config", get a baseline, bolt on the new stuff tomorrow and see what the changes are.

And tomorrow we will be saying that they will bolt on the new stuff on saturday as Schumacher needs to get a baseline!

For this week a wide range of new aerodynamic upgrades is expected. Teams like McLaren and Ferrari have produced significant packages of top body, floor, engine cover and so on, primarily aerodynamic steps as it seems from talking to the engineers that aero is still the big area of growth potential, despite all the cut backs. These steps should be worth significant chunks of lap time.