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Mercedes AMG have today completed their shakedown of the W03, the team's new 2012 car. After the team decided to run at last week's Jerez test with the older car, Mercedes will present its new car to the public next Tuesday at the start of testing at Barcelona.
Not sure what level of trust we can have on the twitter account of mercamgf1fans (they do seem to post here too soMr.S wrote:I would love this to be true,but any SOURCE mate???atanatizante wrote:There are rumors saying that they will have a stepped nose.
Further more, this nose features a cooling inlet like RB does and it has a bifurcation aiming to route the air flow towards the engine, nullifying practically the air box intake ...
). They seem to indicate a stepped nose. Cooling inlet they dont seem to say any Steve Tynan @Onionterrors
Heading up to Silverstone later to see the new car run before launch. There's blood and sweat in that car I tell ya #F1
What's the point of hiding something that can be copied so quickly? If they are that desperate about other copying their idea, why even bringing the car to the races of 2012?Med4224 wrote:"I assume that they want to hide something from the competition," Newey admitted to Sport Bild. "It must be something that can be copied quite quickly; otherwise they wouldn't try so hard to keep it secret."
http://en.espnf1.com/redbull/motorsport ... CMP=chrome
maybe Newey knows what he's talking about?
If that was meant to be a joke it was a pretty poor one. Anyways team just dont copy it blindly. They will first have to investiage it,try it in the wind-tunnel & simulator & then manufacture it. All of it takes time.Morteza wrote:What's the point of hiding something that can be copied so quickly? If they are that desperate about other copying their idea, why even bringing the car to the races of 2012?Med4224 wrote:"I assume that they want to hide something from the competition," Newey admitted to Sport Bild. "It must be something that can be copied quite quickly; otherwise they wouldn't try so hard to keep it secret."
http://en.espnf1.com/redbull/motorsport ... CMP=chrome
maybe Newey knows what he's talking about?
Copied "quickly" on F1 standards, not quickly as in 2 days. Maybe 2 - 3 races, not to mention the need to test it and optimize it after it is copied and so on.Morteza wrote:What's the point of hiding something that can be copied so quickly? If they are that desperate about other copying their idea, why even bringing the car to the races of 2012?Med4224 wrote:"I assume that they want to hide something from the competition," Newey admitted to Sport Bild. "It must be something that can be copied quite quickly; otherwise they wouldn't try so hard to keep it secret."
http://en.espnf1.com/redbull/motorsport ... CMP=chrome
maybe Newey knows what he's talking about?
Wasn't the car with Double diffuser by brawn launched in the second test?. It took a lot of discussion and time before others could copy it, by that time they had a huge lead in WDC and WCC.Mr.S wrote:If that was meant to be a joke it was a pretty poor one. Anyways team just dont copy it blindly. They will first have to investiage it,try it in the wind-tunnel & simulator & then manufacture it. All of it takes time.Morteza wrote:What's the point of hiding something that can be copied so quickly? If they are that desperate about other copying their idea, why even bringing the car to the races of 2012?Med4224 wrote:"I assume that they want to hide something from the competition," Newey admitted to Sport Bild. "It must be something that can be copied quite quickly; otherwise they wouldn't try so hard to keep it secret."
http://en.espnf1.com/redbull/motorsport ... CMP=chrome
maybe Newey knows what he's talking about?
Bear in mind,ALL teams have planned upgrades for the 2nd/3rd test & 1st Race. Also they might be investigating some other feature from some other car. Trying to copy Mercedes in 15 days is hard,they will have to change a lot of resource allocation & direction of development.
And it might not even work as well as it can for Mercedes.