Turkey GP 2009 - Istanbul Park

[vasia]

Pics:

Brawn:


BMW Sauber:


Toyota?:



Force India:


Pitlane:

Wet race posibilities????

The new Brawn wing looks interesting, I am curious to see the rest of BMW's car, and in particular their diffuser design.

Also those two pics that seem to be Toyota, interesting design of the rear crash structure, suspension, and gearbox.

One new part has already been spotted on the Toyotas; they are using new front brake cooling ducts that also act as airflow vanes.

[scarbs]

Those gearboxes are the Ferrari (rear view) and Renault (side view).

[vasia]

Those gearboxes are the Ferrari (rear view) and Renault (side view).

Thanks for the clarification.

More pics:

Toyota:




Renault front wheel fairings, interesting design:

[kNt]

Diffuser looks different, don't know if it's because of the car lifting thing.


Quite complex flow conditioners.

Rearwing endplates incorporated into the diffuser to extract air sideways.

New (?) frontwing, complex flow conditonioners.

[sticky667]

seems renault and toyota really simplified the front wing.

[ISLAMATRON]

seems renault and toyota really simplified the front wing.

As did Brawn

[flynfrog]

talk about a mind F*ck picture

[walter]

Im stuck at work overnight, does anyone have a link to a stream of the 1st practice for US viewers?

[Nebhotep]

Here you go walter

[gibells]

Hammy 2nd after being at the front for most of the sesh. Woohoo. Is it early days or does this show the cars pace around here?

[djos]

Hammy 2nd after being at the front for most of the sesh. Woohoo. Is it early days or does this show the cars pace around here?

Getting a bit carried away!

The same sort of thing happened in FP1/2/3 at the last race and then MacMerc where nowhere in Qually!

[hulmerist]

on car setup for the kers cars, do they keep the setup you'd expect without it and just have kers there to boost in areas....or, do they set the car up for more downforce since they know they can compensate on the straights with kers...?

i don't know if this is a dumb question or not

[gibells]

If you're talking about Monaco, in qualifying he didn't hook up cause be hooked up, if you know what i mean.

[ISLAMATRON]

If you're talking about Monaco, in qualifying he didn't hook up cause be hooked up, if you know what i mean.

Yep Hamilton was clearly fast, until he put it in the tire barrier... for comparison, Heikki qualed in P7 with a relatively heavy fuel load in Q3... P5 seems quite attainable for LH in Monaco if he had kept it together.

But I really didnt expect to see this kind of speed from McLaren today... or maybe they re running light tanks anticipating trying a 3 stop strategy.

[RacingManiac]

when did McLaren revert back to symmetrical exhaust cover?