2010 Winter Testing

[Jan_83]

this is one of the features with "the dead zone", remember?

No I don't. What for a feature? Give me a link please.

[mistrx]

little bit OT, but i think it's good if we take some time and fill this

http://www.lgf1racingfansurvey.com/home.aspx out

maybe they'll listen to us [-o<

[horse]

this is one of the features with "the dead zone", remember?

No I don't. What for a feature? Give me a link please.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085407/

Seriously though f1-direct just posted this:

Yesterday at the press conference, De la Rosa and Buemi complained of having a very sore neck. This is due to the heavy load of fuel in the cars.

How does having lots of fuel give you a sore neck? Acceleration is acceleration, right. What does mass have to do with it? Whiplash?

[raceman]

this is one of the features with "the dead zone", remember?

No I don't. What for a feature? Give me a link please.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085407/

that was hilarious


loved your sense of humour horse

[xpensive]

this is one of the features with "the dead zone", remember?

No I don't. What for a feature? Give me a link please.

Was a member here before, "goony", who worked at McLaren and he xplaned it, poor sod lost his job because of that.
It's a so far unchartered area where Bernoulli laws don't apply, only to have been discovered in the windtunnel by McL.

[raceman]

little bit OT, but i think it's good if we take some time and fill this

http://www.lgf1racingfansurvey.com/home.aspx out

maybe they'll listen to us [-o<

am on it

[vyselegend]

Isn't there a place where we can read at full stints lap times
I remember there was such a site last year but can't find it.

Having only best lap times have never been relevant, but with cars now potentially running with a 100kg difference it has become utter crap!

Reading autosport live, Massa was doing his long stints in the 1'16s, so the 1'11s times and such are quite probably irrelevants.

[jamsbong]

i suspect that the top 3 lap times probably ran with low fuel. This makes me speculate that Ferrari is probably the top car.
Also, I suspect, Schumi has already made a point that he should be no.1 hehe....

[-KMR_NH-]

little bit OT, but i think it's good if we take some time and fill this

http://www.lgf1racingfansurvey.com/home.aspx out

maybe they'll listen to us [-o<

There are some good questions in it, did it

[myurr]

i suspect that the top 3 lap times probably ran with low fuel. This makes me speculate that Ferrari is probably the top car.
Also, I suspect, Schumi has already made a point that he should be no.1 hehe....

The McLaren time is definitely on a healthy fuel load. Lewis just knocked a little bit more off his time at the start of a 23+lap run (according to the lap count on his pit board).

Earlier there were tweets that whilst on 30lap runs the Williams was in the 1:14's and the Ferrari was in the 1:16's!! But again we have no idea what the fuel loads and programs are so still treat it all with a healthy pinch of salt.

[Sambo]

Iv'e just received my vip paddock pass from Mclaren so you can expect some pics from the Barcelona test at the end of the month....

Sam

[Jan_83]

Can you explain what that "dead zone" is? What changes compared to Bernoulli. And on which car part?

[myurr]

Can you explain what that "dead zone" is? What changes compared to Bernoulli. And on which car part?

There's no official answer so just a whole load of speculation by armchair enthusiasts. Some are theorising it's internal to the car, but my favorite is the explanation of air being directed out of a slit in the back of the rear wing (visible in the McLaren specific thread) such that it reduces the turbulence in the wake produced by the car, reducing the drag.

[CMSMJ1]

Can you explain what that "dead zone" is? What changes compared to Bernoulli. And on which car part?

There's no official answer so just a whole load of speculation by armchair enthusiasts. Some are theorising it's internal to the car, but my favorite is the explanation of air being directed out of a slit in the back of the rear wing (visible in the McLaren specific thread) such that it reduces the turbulence in the wake produced by the car, reducing the drag.

It is all a load of hot air and wind....

[xpensive]

It is all a load of hot air and wind....

It is? Nooohh....?