Looks like it's purely aero - conditioning the air and helping to get the correct flow to the rest of the car.walter wrote:I'm too lazy to find the Williams fw31 topic, and I don't remember this being discussed... take a look at the splitter that is at the bottom of the noscone attachment...
it looks new to me, but please correct me if i'm wrong.
space for ballast? KERS? or purely aero function?
Yeah I thought so too but cannot definitively confirm. From the radio it sounds like Lewis's problems were the car bottoming out. His final run was looking much more promising before a big slide meant we didn't get to see what the improvement would have been. Never mindjoseff wrote:My web feed was quite bad, but it appears McLaren already was running the new diffuser for FP2, and it's not an extended-height version.
seemed like he was 6 tenths away in the second sector, so he'd have probably ended up around the level of the ferraris....which is something i guessmyurr wrote:Yeah I thought so too but cannot definitively confirm. From the radio it sounds like Lewis's problems were the car bottoming out. His final run was looking much more promising before a big slide meant we didn't get to see what the improvement would have been. Never mindjoseff wrote:My web feed was quite bad, but it appears McLaren already was running the new diffuser for FP2, and it's not an extended-height version.
18k limit is on for this year.meves wrote:Oh I forgot to add, does anyone know if anyone has been running reduced revs through these sessions. It's rumoured that teams are running reduced revs by up to 1000rpm, to save their engines due to the new engine rules for this year.
It was being discussed that they ran them reduced through some ro all of freee practice, down to 17k to prolong engine life as they are running so many laps..timbo wrote:18k limit is on for this year.meves wrote:Oh I forgot to add, does anyone know if anyone has been running reduced revs through these sessions. It's rumoured that teams are running reduced revs by up to 1000rpm, to save their engines due to the new engine rules for this year.
not sure on the 'snow plough' front wingsCMSMJ1 wrote:Do we still think they are ugly?
It's not all the front wings though, the McLaren looks amazing (even if it isn't as fast as it looks), the Ferrari and Williams look good as well.nae wrote:not sure on the 'snow plough' front wingsCMSMJ1 wrote:Do we still think they are ugly?
have got used to the rear wings
and the rest of the cars look good
am sure i will get used to it over time
especially if it keeps the 'topsy turvey' order like
it has in free practice and even more if it increases
over taking in races
Ferrari 10th 1 sec of the pace
macca 17th
bring on the racing