Force India VJM10 Mercedes

[Flying JPS Lotus]

Here's the car gearing up for the weekend ahead

[Sidhartha.techie]

And the backend



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[Sidhartha.techie]

I think its just an illusion because of the paint scheme but does the nostrils look slightly different with added elements

[Huntresa]

I think its just an illusion because of the paint scheme but does the nostrils look slightly different with added elements

http://i.imgur.com/Z4o9iyv.png

The thing is you cant see the channels of carbon fibre that good on the launch spec cause of bad light and being black. When they paint the whole car pink and the actual opening pink in the channel you see things more clearly and it looks to be the same tbh.

[oetger]

AMUS

[Morteza]

[Racer X]

There it is the Pink Panther.

[GTO99]

What is that oval shaped screwed-on black panel on the front wing? It is not present on all their wings.

[gavingav1]

It's a ballast insert in the front wing , probably just a certain one they use for scrutineering process and not used in the race .

[Morteza]

VJM10's steering wheel:

[Morteza]

[Morteza]

Via AMuS

[IamLegend]

Any info about the car + driver weight available after Scrutineering? Also in comparison to other cars and drivers, that'll tell us if they are really 10 kgs heavier.

[Samraj_official]

its overweight in the sense,the aren't able to use the ballast to move the weight around the car for balance but rather the car itself weighs a full 728 kg, Andrew green might have planned a 718 kg car + 10 kg ballast, but i ended up being the car itself weighing 728 kg and 0 kg of ballast, so they really cant balance the car the way they want.

Have to wait until Bahrain for the slimmer VJM10 with slimmer sidepods,right now its a disaster with the wheel base too, they went from having the smallest wheelbase to being the second longest car,they have a lot of work to do

1.reduce the weight of the car
2.slim down the sidepods,its the bulkiest of all cars
3.reduce the wheelbase

[Sevach]

its overweight in the sense,the aren't able to use the ballast to move the weight around the car for balance but rather the car itself weighs a full 728 kg, Andrew green might have planned a 718 kg car + 10 kg ballast, but i ended up being the car itself weighing 728 kg and 0 kg of ballast, so they really cant balance the car the way they want.

Have to wait until Bahrain for the slimmer VJM10 with slimmer sidepods,right now its a disaster with the wheel base too, they went from having the smallest wheelbase to being the second longest car,they have a lot of work to do

1.reduce the weight of the car
2.slim down the sidepods,its the bulkiest of all cars
3.reduce the wheelbase

I'm thinking the huge Mercedes gearbox might've caught out Force India, it's extra weight in itself, forces the car to be longer... they might've gotten the news of the direction Mercedes was following for 2017 a little too late.