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F1 - General discussion and 2017
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Dave
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A bit of a lock up for the Merc under braking for Turn 1 - Bottas is pushing hard it seems. The impression of corner speed is not overwhelming, the car is maybe running fat with fuel, but you can tell it is smothered in grip - early back on the throttle and no trouble to deal with all the way up the hill through Turns 2 and into 3. The Force India is a bit more lairy, giving Perez a touch of oversteer to deal with through 2, though the next lap - with a bit more tyre temperature perhaps - it's all under control again.
Ben Anderson
Ben Anderson
Bottas hits 67 laps, so that's a race distance covered for the new Mercedes W08 in just one morning.
Vettel is the only man even close to that figure, he's just about to notch up his 50th lap of the morning.
I won't repeat how many laps McLaren have done.
Vettel is the only man even close to that figure, he's just about to notch up his 50th lap of the morning.
I won't repeat how many laps McLaren have done.
Dave
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I bet Merc will have dialled the power down as well, like last year.
So not much change there, like last year.
Kevin Magnussen has had an accident on what is proving to be a difficult first day for Haas
Haas F1 Team ✔ @HaasF1Team
.@KevinMagnussen back in the garage. Locked the rear wheels and spun at Turn 10 hitting the barrier, resulting in front wing damage. #HaasF1
Haas F1 Team ✔ @HaasF1Team
.@KevinMagnussen back in the garage. Locked the rear wheels and spun at Turn 10 hitting the barrier, resulting in front wing damage. #HaasF1
Looking at Bottas's previous run on softs, which included 16 timed laps, it doesn't look like tyre degradation is particularly under control. Taking his first laptime, a 1m23.4s, then factoring in fuel-load reduction on each subsequent lap, you can work out what the tyre degradation is. After 16 flying laps, he's a total 17.45s slower than he would be with the tyre degradation removed. So that's just under 1.1s per lap lost on average. Some of that could be in setup or the way he's driving, but that doesn't come close to low-degradation to my mind.
Gary Anderson
Gary Anderson
RED BULL's NOSTRIL NOSE EXPLAINED
Sky F1's Ted Kravitz has been investigating the innovative design feature at Barcelona.
What are we looking at?
“It’s easy to spot – it’s the very first part of the car in the nosecone and it’s got a hole in it. But the first thing to stress is that this is not likely to be a game changer for Red Bull - that’s certainly the way all the other teams are treating it.
“The second thing to say is that it’s legal. I can’t find engineers from any other team in the pitlane who would say that Red Bull’s interpretation of the rules on openings in the nosecone is invalid.
“And, thirdly, it’s very clever.”
So what does it do?
“It’s a hole about the size of a credit card and it ducts air underneath the nosecone.
“The intention is to disrupt what’s called the boundary layer, which is when air starts to get disrupted over a surface. While it might not cause too much disruption at the point it’s hitting the nose, the disrupted air only gets worse and worse the further downstream of the car it goes.
“So by tidying it up early on, you make sure the turbulent air doesn’t cause any damage to the bargeboards or the really sensitive areas where you are generating a lot of downforce.
“If you look closely behind the front-wing pillars, there are also a couple of pencil-shaped ducts on either side. They essentially perform the same function, taking a little bit of the boundary layer and venting it to the top of the chassis or getting rid of it into a safe area before it can do any damage downstream.”
Are there any other advantages?
“There’s another purpose and that is to work the central part of the front wing harder.
“You’ll notice amongst all the complicated front wings on every car that there is a rectangular box shape in the middle which is the same for everyone. This is because it is blanked out by the FIA rules to be an area you can’t develop.
“What Adrian Newey seems to be doing by putting this nostril duct here is just increasing the airflow over this FIA section and making it work harder than it otherwise would.”
Is it something other teams are likely to copy?
“It’s very possible seeing as Red Bull have set a precedent as to its legality. The interesting thing is that it’s effectively a false nose. The real nose of the Red Bull is behind this little duct and that’s the bit that’s satisfying the rules concerning the size of the hole you can have on the tip of the nose.
“This will inevitably attract attention, but there are plenty of other eye-catching bits of bodywork on the Red Bull RB13. We will go through them all in Development Corner on Thursday at 9.15pm on Sky F1.”
Sky F1's Ted Kravitz has been investigating the innovative design feature at Barcelona.
What are we looking at?
“It’s easy to spot – it’s the very first part of the car in the nosecone and it’s got a hole in it. But the first thing to stress is that this is not likely to be a game changer for Red Bull - that’s certainly the way all the other teams are treating it.
“The second thing to say is that it’s legal. I can’t find engineers from any other team in the pitlane who would say that Red Bull’s interpretation of the rules on openings in the nosecone is invalid.
“And, thirdly, it’s very clever.”
So what does it do?
“It’s a hole about the size of a credit card and it ducts air underneath the nosecone.
“The intention is to disrupt what’s called the boundary layer, which is when air starts to get disrupted over a surface. While it might not cause too much disruption at the point it’s hitting the nose, the disrupted air only gets worse and worse the further downstream of the car it goes.
“So by tidying it up early on, you make sure the turbulent air doesn’t cause any damage to the bargeboards or the really sensitive areas where you are generating a lot of downforce.
“If you look closely behind the front-wing pillars, there are also a couple of pencil-shaped ducts on either side. They essentially perform the same function, taking a little bit of the boundary layer and venting it to the top of the chassis or getting rid of it into a safe area before it can do any damage downstream.”
Are there any other advantages?
“There’s another purpose and that is to work the central part of the front wing harder.
“You’ll notice amongst all the complicated front wings on every car that there is a rectangular box shape in the middle which is the same for everyone. This is because it is blanked out by the FIA rules to be an area you can’t develop.
“What Adrian Newey seems to be doing by putting this nostril duct here is just increasing the airflow over this FIA section and making it work harder than it otherwise would.”
Is it something other teams are likely to copy?
“It’s very possible seeing as Red Bull have set a precedent as to its legality. The interesting thing is that it’s effectively a false nose. The real nose of the Red Bull is behind this little duct and that’s the bit that’s satisfying the rules concerning the size of the hole you can have on the tip of the nose.
“This will inevitably attract attention, but there are plenty of other eye-catching bits of bodywork on the Red Bull RB13. We will go through them all in Development Corner on Thursday at 9.15pm on Sky F1.”
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Good news for Polish
McLaren ✔ @McLarenF1
#F1Testing update: after an oil systems issue stopped play this morning, we'll be back out on track this afternoon.
Good news indeed! I'm sure Fernando forgot to pack his deck chair for this week's test. He would've had no way to sun himself otherwise!
Dave
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Good news for Polish
McLaren ✔ @McLarenF1
#F1Testing update: after an oil systems issue stopped play this morning, we'll be back out on track this afternoon.
Wind up those elastic bands really tight and maybe they'll get a few laps done
There's an engine fire up...and off down the pit lane goes the Red Bull of Daniel Ricciardo.
That's the first we've seen of the RB13 since it stopped on track mid-way through the morning. Good news for the former world champions.
Ricciardo starts a timed lap, and he immediately improves to a 1m28.541s. That still leaves him ninth and 5.7s off the pace, but both of those numbers should come down if the RB13 can hold together for a run of laps.
That's the first we've seen of the RB13 since it stopped on track mid-way through the morning. Good news for the former world champions.
Ricciardo starts a timed lap, and he immediately improves to a 1m28.541s. That still leaves him ninth and 5.7s off the pace, but both of those numbers should come down if the RB13 can hold together for a run of laps.
More info:
Following McLaren's earlier tweet that Alonso would be back out this afternoon following an oil systems issue, Honda has chosen to change his engine to save time while continuing to investigate the problem.
So Alonso may need that deckchair after all.
Following McLaren's earlier tweet that Alonso would be back out this afternoon following an oil systems issue, Honda has chosen to change his engine to save time while continuing to investigate the problem.
So Alonso may need that deckchair after all.
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