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After rumours had recently increased about a buyout of Brawn GP, Mercedes is now confirmed to have bought 75.1% of Brawn GP shares. The team will consequently be renamed to Mercedes GP and looks set to run world champion Jenson Button and Nico Rosberg in 2010.
Probably just to make life miserable for MS, now that everybody knows that he cannot drive properly unless the car is micrometered to his constitution and affection, the poor little thang.JohnsonsEvilTwin wrote:Why do you think all the teams agreed to a mandatory weight distribution?
What was the reason x?
Am I missing something here? The duct is shown as being on the right hand side of the car, therefore it would have to be activated by the right foot, which is actually operating the accellerator. Seems impossible to me. I still believe that it is hand operated on the left hand cockpit side.siskue2005 wrote:I will post this again for those who still have doubt
its actually there , and was reported in formula1.com site
here is the link
I am sure the FIA has the perfect source for what is happening with Merc's F-duct
and this
http://www.formula1.com/news/technical/ ... 0/758.html
Mercedes GP's F-Duct system, which was introduced in China, has received an upgrade in Turkey. It can now be activated by the driver's foot thanks to a bigger duct on the side of the chassis (blue arrow). This was previously much smaller and used to cool the drivers. The system of pipes used to direct the air to the rear wing is very complicated and they are all concealed by the engine cover, eventually reaching the wing's main profile through the side endplates.
Well, you could have two inputs. One to feed the wing and a second to operate a switch similar to the McLaren system. The switch feed could be on the other side of the cockpit. Complicated job though, and I'm surprised they've put so much effort into this given they're supposed to be 100% on next years car and there will be no f-ducts next year.gilgen wrote:Am I missing something here? The duct is shown as being on the right hand side of the car, therefore it would have to be activated by the right foot, which is actually operating the accellerator. Seems impossible to me. I still believe that it is hand operated on the left hand cockpit side.
Yep. Not a Renault engined car this time and one that managed to gain 15 horsepower this season. What's this got to do with it?JohnsonsEvilTwin wrote:I forgot, who was on pole? A ferrari engined car.
Nowhere near pole position, as they have been.Who outqualified Hamilton? Webber in a renault engined Red Bull.
The problem is Petrov. Mercedes have two top line paid drivers, so like I've said before, given that they're going to need a rearguard action to defend fourth from Renault for the rest of the season it's not a great comparison. Remember, they are another team who nearly didn't exist and should have more limited resources.And Renault have not consistently outperformed Mercedes, as the table and qualifying will testify, so why should that change for Monza?
Probably because they know it isn't enforceable, as usual. Mercedes will stick to it and be nowhere. The other teams are also secretly laughing at Mercedes if they think this will solve what has obviously been an aerodynamic imbalance in their car this season.JohnsonsEvilTwin wrote:Why do you think all the teams agreed to a mandatory weight distribution?
What was the reason x?
Scrutineering never weights the car with the driver. So it would be almost certain that the distribution applies to the car alone. And yes, I recall a tolerance of +/- 1%. I don't know about fuel but one assumes that fuel cells will be in the center of gravity anyway.747heavy wrote:is this for the empty car or with driver and fuel (how much)?
What is the tolerance? +/- 1% ?
Thanks
Yep, bad news for the big boys, I guess. I assume they will allow change of ballast for the race (which would be different to current park ferme rules). At least the weight distribution is not supposed to be checked after the race.747heavy wrote:so some drivers will have possibly a advantage then, with a better W/D then there team mates
