Sauber C32 Ferrari

[stefan_]

Malaysia 2013 - Wednesday (20.03.2013)

[Holm86]

Didnt know that Sauber had such an advanced spray booth ....

[Owen.C93]

[Nando]

I´m surprised they don´t have mid and exit diff settings on the wheel, just entry.
Maybe you don´t need it today?

Edit: Visco i guess is diff-related too, and preload.

[Gridlock]

I'm surprised the ergonomics are so bad - look at the selection indicator on the central dial for instance. Now find it at 3 lateral G and 160mph.

[stefan_]

They don't even see the buttons when they move them, not talking about what value selected on the button itself (like the little arrow in the centre one). They know where the dials (and the direction they have to be moved in order to increase or decrease the value) are and whenever they make a change it appears on the screen (which they can see), for ex.: ENT 8 / PRE 2 / KERS 4. This was explained by a Mercedes engineer when it made a demonstration on the W03 steering wheel and I presume it is available for everyone since they have more or less the same driving position.

[Lorenzo_Bandini]

Yes, with the speed and the vibration, it's impossible for a driver to see the settings on the steering wheel. Perhaps on the old Hockenheim track, Monza, Sepang ( on the two long straights ), China ( long straight ) they can afford to do that. But at Singapore or Monaco, it's impossible.

[Artur Craft]

What I am really curious is to see what RW will they use in Sepang.

Given they already used the low drag one even at Albert Park, it almost sure it will be the "spoon" one

This, imho, will be the first real test for C32 design philosophy. Hope it doesn't prove to be a failure concept

[Forza]

The vacuum in the fuel cell ripped off the mountings inside the chassis and cause the retirement for Hulkenberg at Australian GP. The leak in the tank was the result of a vacuum that was created during refuelling. The pressure was so high that one of the four mounting bolts was ripped off also damaging the fuel cell.The problem should not occur again with the use of new chassis at Malaysian GP.

F1 Malaysian GP - Thursday - 21/3/2013








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Same angle as above - zoom of rear suspension http://i.imgur.com/JbWTCjD.jpg



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[Forza]

F1 Malaysian GP - Friday FP - 22/3/2013




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[aral]

Deleted. Fire extinguisher problem.

[Forza]

F1 Malaysian GP - Friday FP - 22/3/2013



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[Nando]

The car seems to be quite slippery.
Can´t remember what session but second to last corner Hamilton and Gutierrez was getting in each others way.
Hamilton got on the power earlier and deployed DRS earlier but as soon as "Gutti" hit the DRS he just took off like a bat out of hell.

[shelly]

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Is the chassis fin there just for legality reason? reminds me of mp4-13 in 1998. If it is a vortex generator instaed, that's interesting - could also be just for housing the chassis edge vortex