March 24th, 2008 at 11:27 pm

nice one. you couldn’t do the same for gearboxes too could ya? pretty please
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March 24th, 2008 at 11:36 pm

This really would give us an idea of engine reliability for each team wouldn’t it.

I like the gearbox idea haha.
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March 25th, 2008 at 1:52 am

OK, give me 1-2 days

Now, the truth is I am not too clear about the gearbox rules. Can they change the gearbox without penalty on a DNF car (same as the engine) or not ?

March 25th, 2008 at 2:24 am

Yea, the gearbox rules are exactly the same as the engine rules.

And by the same I mean they are both crazy
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March 25th, 2008 at 7:58 am

Well, as far I know. There are some compounds possible to change, ratio & clearly damaged gears. Anyway, the rule is based on the motor ones, but I’m trully amazed about the gearbox life extension. How to make such part of car work over 1 race? Till 4!!! Yeap, crazy rules…

Well, as the sameless shifting gearbox is overall everywhere, the teams will have to think about something.

Nowadays the kind of gearbox used is always on touch (almost cluth activation doesn’t separate motor rotation from the gearbox [no sameless gearbox lose over 30 seconds by race changing gears, and this is already a great thing, sameless lose almost nothing over 3 seconds as I have read last year somewhere]). So, a gearbox which is used over 4 weekends is to my understanding insane! The parts of it are working with incredible heat, then relax, then again work pushing it to it’s limits and so on… Anyway, FIA rules decided so. And the teams and their oil providers seems to survive with it. Ah… I’m just realizing the F1 will be lacking of performance and that’s sad.

By the way, on fridays test programs is allowed to switch a fresh gearbox to not risk with the original’s performance, cars bounce much more on test and they use to get on dirty track which makes the tyres spin more and then… Gearbox suffer a lot with this lack of grip.

Guy, I’m happy you’re introducing new features on your website, this is getting better day by day!

March 25th, 2008 at 10:44 am

one thing you might want to add, is which driver has used up his one *free* allocation for the year.

thus far: sutil in oz and bourdais in malaysia

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March 25th, 2008 at 1:38 pm

I GUESS fisi and sutil are using old engines..
they are having ferrari chassis

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March 25th, 2008 at 1:46 pm

“one thing you might want to add, is which driver has used up his one *free* allocation for the year.

thus far: sutil in oz and bourdais in malaysia”

done

what a waste for Bourdais, he could have spun off on lap one with the old engine too …

March 25th, 2008 at 1:51 pm

“I GUESS fisi and sutil are using old engines..
they are having ferrari chassis”

Force India is using Ferrari engines, but not Ferrari chassis, they have Mr. Gascoyne to design their own

As for the engines - The 2 engine rule means the same engine ahs to be used for 2 consecutive race weekends (not including Fridays) but can be replaced in a car that does not finish. As Sutil did not finish the race in Malaysia the team will be free to fit his car with fresh engine for Bahrain GP. Fisichella started the race on fresh engine and made it to the finish line, so he should start next race with the same engine he used in Malaysia.

March 25th, 2008 at 6:08 pm

cheers for adding that info.

“what a waste for Bourdais, he could have spun off on lap one with the old engine too…”

sutil’s was a bigger waste, he trashed his chassis and started from the pitlane, so may as well have taken a 10 place hit. at least seb started in the correct position.

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April 2nd, 2008 at 10:10 pm

see http://www.fia.com/mediacentre/Press_Information/F1/F1_Press_Information/2008/malaysia.html and the scrutineering pdf report at the bottom, only drivers using a new engine are FM, KR, RK, NP, JT TG and DC

August 4th, 2008 at 11:06 pm

Hi, Didn’t Coulthard use a new engine in Hungary? Cheers, J

August 4th, 2008 at 11:27 pm

I see. Thanks.
Seems Massa old engine couldn’t keep up fighting Hamilton’s new one.

Cheers,

J