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Sebastian Vettel has won the Italian GP after taking the lead on lap 3 of the race. The World Champion was never threatened later on and controlled the remainder of the race. Jenson Button finished in second place while Fernando Alonso pleased the crowd with third place.
marcush. wrote:you missed out on a top3 for Toro Rosso ..
they looked really strong in Spa and have to be dark horse for a surpise in what is their home race.
Yeap. Skinniest wing they had in the paddock in Spa. They had to back their wing off a massive amount. If you looked at the thing the main plane was just about flat, and their flap was about 5cm vertically (they kind of had 2 flat planes with DRS activated)n smikle wrote:Didn't want to bring cars to the argument yet, but I have my reservations about this RB7... I think it is going to be the strongest at Monza. Did you guys see the Spa wing? and it was very strong at spa too.. good top speed.
A claim as lofty as that would need an equally lofty source for anyone to take it seriously.n smikle wrote: RedBull gave an order to cap that car's development. It should be a top three car but RedBull wouldn't have it taking the some of the spotlight, especially before the take over by the Spanish oil giant so yes, Torro Rosso is internally limited to given Downforce Level by RedBull.
They had to back the wings off so that they could be competitive in Sectors 1 and 3. BUT what was enabling it to back the wing off as much was probably the chassis/floorrichard_leeds wrote:"Have to back the wings off" to maintain top speed, due to fear of being caught?
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They have enough downforce from the floor so the wing is surplus to requirements?
jfyiAUTOSPORT understands that teams have been told by Pirelli that the maximum limit it wants to see used at Monza is 3.75 degrees - which is a level that it feels will ensure no overheating problems on the straights but will also not hinder teams through the high-speed corners or chicanes.
At Spa, teams were asked not go beyond a 4-degree limit – but Red Bull Racing was understood to have pushed the limit to as far as 4.3 degrees. It was this that contributed to the tyres overheating on the straights – producing the blisters that proved so worrying ahead of the race.
Yup; there was speculation earlier in the thread; and in the McLaren MP4-26 thread; that some cars may try such a setup; as was tried by Williams and I believe BAR too a while backrichard_leeds wrote:Well there is no requirement for a rear wing in the regs, only a requirement for end plates for advertising. Also, cars "may" have DRS, the regs do not say they "shall" have them.
It'll be silly to have a flat plate instead of a wing, but they will be getting very shallow. I wonder if we'll see DRS that doesn't utilise the full 50mm permitted in the regs? ... or even no DRS?
Pushing the limit all the way to 4.3 degrees... I got a good chuckle out of that.MrBlacky wrote:jfyiAUTOSPORT understands that teams have been told by Pirelli that the maximum limit it wants to see used at Monza is 3.75 degrees - which is a level that it feels will ensure no overheating problems on the straights but will also not hinder teams through the high-speed corners or chicanes.
At Spa, teams were asked not go beyond a 4-degree limit – but Red Bull Racing was understood to have pushed the limit to as far as 4.3 degrees. It was this that contributed to the tyres overheating on the straights – producing the blisters that proved so worrying ahead of the race.