Virgin Racing VR-01 Cosworth

[korzeniow]

With this livery VR-01 looks just great!

[PlatinumZealot]

This is what Newey thinks of the car :

"I think CFD is a very powerful tool, there is no doubt about it, and it is another way of simulating the real environment," Newey said at the Red Bull launch when asked for his opinion on the Virgin Racing car. "A wind tunnel is a simulation of the real world.

"CFD is an electronic simulation of a real environment, but it still has pitfalls - not least that every single run in CFD for a given attitude of the car, or ride height, or whatever it might be, is a discreet run. Whereas in the wind tunnel, what we call a normal run, will have 20 or more data points in it. In other words, that is equivalent to 20 runs in the CFD.

"That is a limitation of size really, so your CFD cluster has to be that much bigger to do that many runs. And there are some areas that CFD physically doesn't capture as well as a wind tunnel - like basic aerodynamic properties.

"So how well it turns out, we shall see. It is a different route, and my personal belief is that you still need to combine the two at the moment. But maybe their car will go very well and I will have to revise my opinion."

[Pandamasque]

Some swan necks were revealed by Scarbs via twatter. Just like the HPD ARX-02a.

[dumrick]

No, n_smikle, that's what Newey thinks about developing a car solely in CFD.

This is what Newey thinks about the car:

maybe their car will go very well

Nice detail, Pandamasque. That's really a feature Wirth loves!

[thedutchguy]

F1Lite just posted a pic of the diffuser, noting that it's a simple single-deck design. I think it is actualle a double decker, with the second deck directly under the crash structure.

http://twitpic.com/12juwx/full

[Fil]

F1Lite just posted a pic of the diffuser, noting that it's a simple single-deck design. I think it is actualle a double decker, with the second deck directly under the crash structure.

http://twitpic.com/12juwx/full

definitely looks conservative compared to the established teams. but that seems to be a consistent adjective for their initial design.

[Pit]

Uh-oh.. Glock's car started falling apart and they had to redflag the session

[Fil]

Wind Tunnel testing could've prevented that problem..

[astracrazy]

its true though, the car has had no loads on it what so ever until now

[zgred]

[xpensive]

A wing falling off one of Nick Wirth's cars, brings back eerie memories that.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport2/h ... 510697.stm

[Mysticf1]

Joe Saward points out that Roland Ratzenberger’s fatal crash was caused by a front wing failure while driving a simtek, a team ran by.....Nick Wirth.

Purely coincidental, but still scary.

http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2010/02/ ... -failures/

[WhiteBlue]

It featured some days ago in the F1 quiz chain.

This is the Link

[RacingManiac]

Wind Tunnel testing could've prevented that problem..

Yes because most team tests full scale with real aero parts instead of models....

I am pretty sure McLaren and Jordan/Midland or something had front wing/rear wing failure in the last 5 years...

From the pic up there it looks like the DDD is actually a fairly big one no?

[Roger the knife]

Wind Tunnel testing could've prevented that problem..

Not sure that's a fair comment. CFD will have inidcated the loads just as well as a windtunnel, more likely just poor structural design.