Renault's depute technical managing director, Rob White, has explained what is the reason for Renault's lack of reliability, and the plans on how the company aim to resolve this in 3 weeks time to be ready for testing at Bahrain.
Could that be the vanity panel attachment on the wing? Strange that they broke off at such different lengths and positions.muelte wrote:Probably lost front wing on main straight and ended in the barriers
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Are you sure of this? I don't think there's any restrictions on distance driven in testing.Del Boy wrote:The teams are only allowed to run 1,500km in testing
Toro Rosso have done over 10 laps also. thats 2 teamsDel Boy wrote:The teams are only allowed to run 1,500km in testing maybe they're all (except Merc) saving this for Bahrain....... Or maybe the phrase booze up in a brewery was taken literally.
I know this web site is often slated for the armchair engineers but come on teams have hundreds of qualified people to do a job most people would kill for and after months of development only one team can complete more than 3 laps!
I'm hopefully over reacting and by March they'll be on top of the technology
Cars can fall apart- no safety problem, no claims of amateurish approach.Rikhart wrote:I will say this again, this is amateurish by the teams, they should have done all these kinds of systems checks ON THE FACTORIES.
A front wing can be tested in the factory, is not that hard. Engine, gearbox... that's more track test stuff, but front wing attatchment? I think that can be done in-house. Now they have to figure if it is a manufacturing problem or a design problem, like Marussia suffer a couple of years ago in JerezxDama wrote:
It's called testing for a reason. Why test, if they could check everything in the factory?
I find it quite "remarkable" how you link a front wing failure and doing installation laps together? Please explain how can you rush a front-wing on a car. The FW failed according to sources on track, you are suggesting that it wasn't attached accordingly because the mechanics rushed to car out of the garage? I find that really hard to believe.richard_leeds wrote:The first day of testing is often just a series of installation laps.
They'll have a list of start up protocols as long as your arm before they attempt to set timed laps. Those protocols will have been developed in the factory. I suspect they'll be working on a fail safe basis, if there are any doubts they'll take a step back, reassemble then retest.
As Hamilton showed, rushing the installation can cause bigger delays. Merc are now back to the beginning and probably behind the teams who didn't rush.
No he's saying Lewis was possibly pushing too hard. It's possible they could have picked up fatigue on the component during one of the stops, but Lewis may have been pushing so hard that lap that it failed suddenly without warning.kooleracer wrote:I find it quite "remarkable" how you link a front wing failure and doing installation laps together? Please explain how can you rush a front-wing on a car. The FW failed according to sources on track, you are suggesting that it wasn't attached accordingly because the mechanics rushed to car out of the garage? I find that really hard to believe.richard_leeds wrote:The first day of testing is often just a series of installation laps.
They'll have a list of start up protocols as long as your arm before they attempt to set timed laps. Those protocols will have been developed in the factory. I suspect they'll be working on a fail safe basis, if there are any doubts they'll take a step back, reassemble then retest.
As Hamilton showed, rushing the installation can cause bigger delays. Merc are now back to the beginning and probably behind the teams who didn't rush.
