Mercedes AMG F1 W05

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FrukostScones wrote:Love the shot of the steering wheel, too bad not all buttons can be seen. Crazy device this is. Love the Hi-Speed sticker and the red button with the white X.
What about the BBW setting?
What's that?
I'm guessing it's not what Google says!

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kooleracer wrote:http://www.formule1.nl/media/uploads/me ... 880.63.jpg
Look at the steering button the red one says: Energy and blue button Torque.
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No i belive that is ENTRY diff lock setup.
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FrukostScones wrote:Love the shot of the steering wheel, too bad not all buttons can be seen. Crazy device this is. Love the Hi-Speed sticker and the red button with the white X.
What about the BBW setting?
What's that?
I'm guessing it's not what Google says!
I belive that we will never know. I bet that is just somesort internal "code" for some setup variations... Maybe somesort ERS related setings maps etc. Whatever! It is hard to guess, cuz there many options up there...
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FrukostScones wrote:Love the shot of the steering wheel, too bad not all buttons can be seen. Crazy device this is. Love the Hi-Speed sticker and the red button with the white X.
What about the BBW setting?
What's that?
Brake Balance, Wet?

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Brake by wire I'd say
Not the engineer at Force India

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AMG.Tzan wrote:https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/ ... 3738_o.jpg
What is this big bulk at the back of the car??? Never seen it before!
Monkey seat, if you mean the black piece. camera if you mean the silver piece on the airbox side.

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gilgen wrote:
AMG.Tzan wrote:https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/ ... 3738_o.jpg
What is this big bulk at the back of the car??? Never seen it before!
Monkey seat, if you mean the black piece. camera if you mean the silver piece on the airbox side.
It's silver-painted!
A-la-McLaren rear exhaust?

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diego.liv wrote:
gilgen wrote:
AMG.Tzan wrote:https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/ ... 3738_o.jpg
What is this big bulk at the back of the car??? Never seen it before!
Monkey seat, if you mean the black piece. camera if you mean the silver piece on the airbox side.
It's silver-painted!
A-la-McLaren rear exhaust?

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Then you mean the camera on the side of the air box.

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beelsebob wrote:It's silver-painted!
A-la-McLaren rear exhaust?

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Then you mean the camera on the side of the air box.[/quote]

Behind the camera
Remember the bad guy in Terminator2, made of liquid metal? It's like the shark fin is melting and changing form

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diego.liv wrote:Remember the bad guy in Terminator2, made of liquid metal? It's like the shark fin is melting and changing form
The T-1000. (Hey, I finally saw a chance to use my undergraduate degree in here...> :mrgreen:

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Pilatus wrote:
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FrukostScones wrote:Love the shot of the steering wheel, too bad not all buttons can be seen. Crazy device this is. Love the Hi-Speed sticker and the red button with the white X.
What about the BBW setting?
What's that?
Brake Balance, Wet?
It takes the driver straight to the Blackberry Website so they can register faults with their phones. Hence the big screen too. :D
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Winter Testing 2014 - Session 2, Day 2 - Bahrain (20.02.2014)

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A sudden drop in water pressure caused Mercedes to stop their run. Source: AMuS

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Any ideas how they are able to run that kind of rake? They must have found a method to seal the diffuser without the exhaust.
#AeroFrodo

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The levels of rake are absolutely nuts... I dont think RedBull at the height of EBD was running so much. Those stationary shots!

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turbof1 wrote:Any ideas how they are able to run that kind of rake? They must have found a method to seal the diffuser without the exhaust.
There's those very long thin uprights in front of the gap between the floor and tyre that maybe creating vortices to seal the diffuser. It's the only thing I can think of.

Do you have to "seal" the diffuser for that amount of rake to be effective?