Lewis Hamilton has won the Chinese Grand Prix at Shanghai thanks to a better race strategy and a working KERS device. Sebastian Vettel struggled to the end and came in second while his teammate Mark Webber ended up in third place after starting from 18th position.
Is it 'flex' or a function of the car's rake angle?Poleman wrote:Nice photo kakogohrena. =D> Will fit nicely as my new desktop.kakogohrena wrote:http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/4814/d11chn1613.jpg
Also,finally a pic where the RB7 is next to the Macca in the same angle .Look at the front wing flex compared to the MP4-26.With naked eye appears to be like 2-3cm.
marcush. wrote: eyes are not meant to be seeing differnces...so you cannot judge from picture evidence if there is a difference in wing height.
Also some people have already brought up the issue of rake having serious impact
on wing height... which is a wonder of geometry:
you can juggle around with lever arms try as you might but even with the leverage point being halfway of the car -which is not realistic -30mm of raised rear ride height would give you those 30mm of lower front wing.In reality the leverage is much closer to 3:1 or worse (depending on Wheelbase,but even the Mercedes shorty is not gaining anything worth mentioning by this).
So raising the rear a considerable 30mm would net in 10mm less front wing height...I´d rather not go deeper into this ..funny people jump on this
the rake is not for lowering the front wing.
How do you know it has minimal rake? There's no way that you can see the relative rake angles of the two cars in this photo.Poleman wrote: In this particular photo the RB has minimal rake so i dont think it affects the FW height.Yes eyes are not accurate but some things are clear to the eye.After all everybody knows that RB wing is flexing,i just wanted to point out the obvious difference in this shot.
Indeed. Vettel was slow off the line because he bodged the start - looked from the onboard that he just didn't have enough revs on and the engine bogged down.Lurk wrote: In Shangai, he just missed his start. That was pretty clear during the onboard footage: good reaction time but his car struggled.
IMO the 30bhp issue is just BS.
I certainly do not know it,so ill rephrase:Tumbarello wrote:How do you know it has minimal rake? There's no way that you can see the relative rake angles of the two cars in this photo.Poleman wrote: In this particular photo the RB has minimal rake so i dont think it affects the FW height.Yes eyes are not accurate but some things are clear to the eye.After all everybody knows that RB wing is flexing,i just wanted to point out the obvious difference in this shot.
Poleman wrote: In this particular photo the RB looks to have minimal rake
Compare RB7 vs MP4-26 - China racemarcush. wrote: eyes are not meant to be seeing differnces...so you cannot judge from picture evidence if there is a difference in wing height.
he didnt hold enough revs at the start and they dropped too low as he released the clutch which caused him to bog down.. his kers was fineraymondu999 wrote:I think it wasn't a driver error, but more of a technical error. He seemed to release the clutch at a good time - just that the car didn't do its usually good launch
