Team: Ron Dennis (CEO), Martin Whitmarsh (COO), Jonathan Neal (MD), Paddy Lowe (ED), Simon Lacey (HA), Pat Fry (CE), Drivers: Lewis Hamilton (1), Heikki Kovalainen (2)
F1 needs new blood and new thought processes in the upper echelon of Management, but who would take BE's place? any suggestions? Replacing Max would actually be simple.kilcoo316 wrote:myurr wrote:Why oh why can't someone get rid of him?
I know.
Who exactly wants him or the poison dwarf around?
Far more trouble than they are worth IMO.
Anyone could do it... all he does is negotiate TV contracts and the venues - then takes half the money for himself.ISLAMATRON wrote:F1 needs new blood and new thought processes in the upper echelon of Management, but who would take BE's place? any suggestions? Replacing Max would actually be simple.
i think the new rules they'd be willing to take less risks like that, if overtaking is more possible in the new cars people will be less desperate to take stupid risks because they know they do have a chance of passing someone, whereas before it was basically impossible most of the timemyurr wrote:I agree that the pitlane speed limit is a good and sensible thing. I would disagree though with the assertion that racing in the speed limit is relatively okay because of the low speed. All it takes is a small nudge or tap to send a car piling into a group of mechanics or another stationary car at nearly 60mph. That is a very big accident and is likely to end in severe injuries or even fatalities.
Frankly the FIA should have outlawed any side by side racing in the pitlane as soon as it started happening last year. The safe release clause in the rules and should have been strengthened to ban this.
Normally I'm all for racing and against excessive safety, but in this case you're talking about mechanics safety and it shouldn't be compromised through the typical ambiguous FIA rules.
Rather than trying to save F1 from a catastrophe that only he can see, Max should concentrate all his efforts for the next couple of years on providing a stable and unambiguous set of rules for the sport that provide a level playing field within which the teams and drivers compete. Unfortunately he's gone and got himself a God complex and is far more interested in political manouvering, power grabbing, sabre rattling, and bigging up his own preening self importance than actually doing a solid and reliable job or genuinely helping F1.
Why oh why can't someone get rid of him?
Maybe McLaren's cooling systems are not as s mall or efficient of ex-Honda's.bonjon1979 wrote:Can anyone give any reason why the Macca can't adopt similar narrow side pod air inlets as per the drawn car? They're using the same engine so I can't imagine their cooling requirements are radically different and the Kers system has a separate air intake on the underneath of one of the side pods. Any thoughts? Also, for those interested I'm now following 'thefifthdriver' on twitter which is basically short macca updates from the pit crew. The most recent one states that the car is beautiful in 'melbourne spec' lets hope it's a different beast to testing!!
Yes, that stands to reason...and is embarrassingly obvious! I should've thought of that myself...ISLAMATRON wrote:Maybe McLaren's cooling systems are not as s mall or efficient of ex-Honda's.bonjon1979 wrote:Can anyone give any reason why the Macca can't adopt similar narrow side pod air inlets as per the drawn car? They're using the same engine so I can't imagine their cooling requirements are radically different and the Kers system has a separate air intake on the underneath of one of the side pods. Any thoughts? Also, for those interested I'm now following 'thefifthdriver' on twitter which is basically short macca updates from the pit crew. The most recent one states that the car is beautiful in 'melbourne spec' lets hope it's a different beast to testing!!
that cant be a reason.bonjon1979 wrote:Yes, that stands to reason...and is embarrassingly obvious! I should've thought of that myself...ISLAMATRON wrote:Maybe McLaren's cooling systems are not as s mall or efficient of ex-Honda's.bonjon1979 wrote:Can anyone give any reason why the Macca can't adopt similar narrow side pod air inlets as per the drawn car? They're using the same engine so I can't imagine their cooling requirements are radically different and the Kers system has a separate air intake on the underneath of one of the side pods. Any thoughts? Also, for those interested I'm now following 'thefifthdriver' on twitter which is basically short macca updates from the pit crew. The most recent one states that the car is beautiful in 'melbourne spec' lets hope it's a different beast to testing!!
The flow in must equal the flow out, or else you have a parachute effect. For the most part, the bigger the inlet the bigger the outlet, just cause you havent seen it in the pics doesnt mean its not there. Don't forget that the air expands as it soaks up heat which is its primary purpose. And it slows dont as it hits the radiators.wesley123 wrote:that cant be a reason.bonjon1979 wrote:Yes, that stands to reason...and is embarrassingly obvious! I should've thought of that myself...ISLAMATRON wrote:Maybe McLaren's cooling systems are not as s mall or efficient of ex-Honda's.
Remember mclaren ahs to cool its kers too, wich bgp dont have to.
bgp also is uising other methods to suck the cooling air out, as you see at the rear end the mclaren is alot smaaler then the bgp, so that is a reason too.
Their cooling systems are both evne good, but mclaren is making the car compact at the back but by that has more frontal area, bgp is comprimising with it, less frontal area but also less compact at the rear
no it dont have to, see mclaren, their inlet is twice as big as the outletISLAMATRON wrote:The flow in must equal the flow out, or else you have a parachute effect. For the most part, the bigger the inlet the bigger the outlet, just cause you havent seen it in the pics doesnt mean its not there. Don't forget that the air expands as it soaks up heat which is its primary purpose. And it slows dont as it hits the radiators.
Yes it does - the flow in HAS to equal the flow out.wesley123 wrote:ISLAMATRON wrote:no it dont have to, see mclaren, their inlet is twice as big as the outlet
Depending on static pressure @ around the outlet.ISLAMATRON wrote:For the most part, the bigger the inlet the bigger the outlet,
Yeap.ISLAMATRON wrote: Don't forget that the air expands as it soaks up heat which is its primary purpose.
The idea is to decelerate it before it hits the radiators - less drag that way, then achieve maximum acceleration post radiator - to further reduce drag, or even produce a thrust.ISLAMATRON wrote: And it slows dont as it hits the radiators.
They have oulets which are not so easy to see in the pics that we get to see.wesley123 wrote:i dont understand it, why can mclaren then have really minimal outlets but still have bigger inlets?
How do they decelerate it? and then how do they reaccelerate it? I know its with the shape of the inside of the sidepod but more specifics would be appreciated.kilcoo316 wrote:Depending on static pressure @ around the outlet.ISLAMATRON wrote:For the most part, the bigger the inlet the bigger the outlet,
Yeap.ISLAMATRON wrote: Don't forget that the air expands as it soaks up heat which is its primary purpose.
The idea is to decelerate it before it hits the radiators - less drag that way, then achieve maximum acceleration post radiator - to further reduce drag, or even produce a thrust.ISLAMATRON wrote: And it slows dont as it hits the radiators.
