Fire detector?emmepi27 wrote:What is on the roll-bar?
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Team: Nick Chester (TD), Matthew Carter (CEO), Gerard Lopez (TP)
Drivers: Romain Grosjean (8), Pastor Maldonado (13), Charles Pic (Reserve), Marco Sorensen (Reserve), Nicolas Prost (Reserve)
Fire detector?emmepi27 wrote:What is on the roll-bar?
Burning marks under "Renault" logoBlanchimont wrote:Lotus "measuring" how much the tyres deflect under racing conditions.
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hey, if it works, it works.Pilatus wrote:Very sofisticated measuring method.Blanchimont wrote:Lotus "measuring" how much the tyres deflect under racing conditions.
http://www.formule1.nl/media/uploads/me ... 463.97.jpg
That's a styrofoam, I suppose.
enotsne, on 02 Mar 2014 - 15:42, said:
Hello again.
Like to say it was a great test and we now go to Melbourne full of enthusiasm, but alas - not the case.
To be fair. Many of the problems were not Renault/PU related, but most of the problems we faced involved fire/heat damage which is time consuming to rectify and in our case damaged components we wouldn't normally carry in numbers to a test.
We used a new exhaust system for this test and it failed at the collector on the first day and caused some damage to the bodywork and the cooling system. We fitted the existing exhaust design that had been trouble free and that failed in the same spot causing a bit more damage.
During the break between tests, the internal side pod ducting was changed to duct ambient airflow around the ICE (it was previously 'post radiator' airflow). It appears that by ducting lower temperature air over the engine (and the exhaust), it altered the expansion of the first runner, causing weld failure.
We borrowed Red Bulls vast collection of power tools and hammers and modified the radiator surround and partially blocked the ambient air duct and it seems to have solved that issue. A more elegant solution should be sorted by Melbourne.
Todays running ended early and saw our first ICE failure but we are yet to find out what failed. Its definitely internal and terminal but may be related to fire damage on Friday that damaged the oil cooler resulting in the computer killing the ICE.
On a more positive note, it appears from our limited running that the ERS driveability issues have been improved substantially and other teams have clocked up a few miles without any ERS hardware failures. Our simulations and calculations show we should be in the game as far as pace and fuel efficiency is concerned...
I believe a new coffee machine was ordered back home for the long nights ahead but apparently it caught fire. Go figure.
I remember from 2012, when Williams first introduce "scoope-less" front brake ducts. Caterham did exact that thing with foam on the innner side of fornt tire PICTURE. That in so how they effective figure out how much "tolerances" they had in position parts closest to the tire. Cheap, quick and effective and 100% buletproff solution. =D>Manoah2u wrote:hey, if it works, it works.Pilatus wrote:Very sofisticated measuring method.Blanchimont wrote:Lotus "measuring" how much the tyres deflect under racing conditions.
http://www.formule1.nl/media/uploads/me ... 463.97.jpg
That's a styrofoam, I suppose.
