Renault R30

[Ciro Pabón]

I erased some posts totally unrelated with this thread and mildly funny. Move on, citizen, nothing to see here.

[forty-two]

It just makes potential sponsors uneasy if they see a car like the Sauber almost blank, doesn't enhance confidence about the future of the team.

What about the BrawnGP car last year? That spent a lot of the season with very little of it's surface area covered, but they seemed able to attract some pretty lucrative sponsors.

[thestig84]

It just makes potential sponsors uneasy if they see a car like the Sauber almost blank, doesn't enhance confidence about the future of the team.

What about the BrawnGP car last year? That spent a lot of the season with very little of it's surface area covered, but they seemed able to attract some pretty lucrative sponsors.

I think winning 6 out of the 7 first races may have helped!!!!!!! Sauber need to make the finish line first!

[forty-two]

It just makes potential sponsors uneasy if they see a car like the Sauber almost blank, doesn't enhance confidence about the future of the team.

What about the BrawnGP car last year? That spent a lot of the season with very little of it's surface area covered, but they seemed able to attract some pretty lucrative sponsors.

I think winning 6 out of the 7 first races may have helped!!!!!!! Sauber need to make the finish line first!

A very good point, well made!

[manchild]

New front wing

[Blackout]

That's an old but modified wing...

The R30 has in Melbourne:
- a revised diffuser, front brake ducts, rear break ducts (equiped with more winglets)
-a modified rear bodywork
-a new little winglet over the beam wing
-a new front wing

http://images.gpupdate.net/large/148735.jpg
http://images.gpupdate.net/large/148635.jpg
http://images.gpupdate.net/large/148674.jpg

[roost89]

on the endplate, what is the wee bar for? Not aesthetics obviously, is it to conform to the rules for some reason?

[Pit]

on the endplate, what is the wee bar for? Not aesthetics obviously, is it to conform to the rules for some reason?

Isn't it supposed to keep the whole thing in place? I mean, those little winglets could fall off if they didn't have any support.

[madly]

EDIT!!! There are mixed photos of old and new version of front wing in my post. Sorry, I realized this after Blackout info, that Kubica used new, and Petrov old wing today.


New font wing in a full glory

EDIT: this is old


EDIT: this is old


EDIT: this is old


EDIT: this is new


EDIT: this is new - detail from Sepang GP


EDIT: this is new - detail from Sepang GP


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EDIT: this is new
a little more from top (beware - wide angle of camera):

and nose

which is definitively smoothly integrated with the rest of the car (not as at the first tests )
EDIT: this is old

note new DIAC sponsor logo

[madly]

RS27:

[roost89]

on the endplate, what is the wee bar for? Not aesthetics obviously, is it to conform to the rules for some reason?

Isn't it supposed to keep the whole thing in place? I mean, those little winglets could fall off if they didn't have any support.

Looks like it now. The one I saw (below) didn't have the winglets on it, so it seemed obsolete. With the winglets in place, it now looks like it serves a purpose.

Cheers

New front wing

[Blackout]

Only Kubica tested the new front wing (but the old brake ducts). For Petrov: old wing/new ducts

[madly]

Help me identify. is it rear of R30 front wing?

[imightbewrong]

Help me identify. is it rear of R30 front wing?

No, it's RBR or STR

[Blackout]

STR (longer upper wings, no hole in the endplate)