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Comment on 2009 Winter Testing - Barcelona November test summary by F1Wolf

F1Wolf — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:20:51 +0000

how far is it from Barcelona to Jerez actually ?

Comment on 2009 Winter Testing - Barcelona November test summary by F1Wolf

F1Wolf — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:20:00 +0000

well, that front wing extending way beyond the wheels begs for getting broken away in that race start chaos one more reason to start the race from the pole …

Comment on 2009 Winter Testing - Barcelona November test summary by F1Wolf

F1Wolf — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:18:33 +0000

OK, will try to do it over the weekend !

Comment on 2009 Winter Testing - Barcelona November test summary by F1Wolf

F1Wolf — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:17:46 +0000

I agree it is that combination of huge wide front wing and narrow very high placed rear wing that makes the cars look weird

Comment on 2009 Winter Testing - Barcelona November test summary by Jose Arellano

Jose Arellano — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:38:55 +0000

i dont think the cars are thaaaat ugly,,, i actually like the big front wing… but i would look very good with a bigger rear one

Comment on 2009 Winter Testing - Barcelona November test summary by Kotenok

Kotenok — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:29:15 +0000

Yeah, about the problems of overtaking, I think they will be almost solved for the next season, now the skill of the drivers will be the only barrier to stop the massive overtaking during races.
With 2009 spec car Robert Kubica and Christian Klien could easily win a 1-2 seconds gap per lap to other drivers during testing, it’s really impressive even while that was during TESTING, I was timing Klien and while following him I could notice that overtook 3 drivers in 2 laps - not bad, his rivals were Toro Rosso’s and one Force India.
The speed gathered in the new prototype car was huge, slow corners won’t be the easiest spot to take good pictures. How to say??? Slicks give the traction and the cars pass through closed bends without any troubles. Despite, I didn’t visit the typical fast curve as Parabolica, in the Catalan track it’s well known there are a bunch of them and I didn’t want to walk 3 km to take a look to the Repsol curve I can’t say nothing about the wings reduction in that aspect. But looking the final turn, New Holland, the car doesn’t lose much the line there and still it’s fast.

I just saw the Honda’s mounting new wings at the end of the morning session, so, my opinion about them isn’t changed much, they seem turtle slow. Hopefully things change for these Japanese boys. I was surprised that names attached to Renault and Red Bull were testing for Honda, but they looked consistent.

Ferrari or McLaren didn’t surprise me, the teams did km’s to test reliability of their motors and surely testing wings reduction, but nothing new that 1st day.

Williams was curious, they were using 2009 spec front wing with 2008 rear wing, alternating that with 2009 rear wing and 2008 front wing, only they will know why…. But Nico Hulkenberg seems to be a good test driver, never mistakes and it’s gentleman, he allows to pass by easily other faster cars moving aside.

I noticed that Loeb isn’t bad F1 tester, but looking his times shouldn’t be what matters, what matters to us should be if he follows the line, changes the gears well and do not block the brakes or have that usual over steer of novice drivers. Nothing of that, Sébastien did drive slower than others but very well.

Toro Rosso, Renault and Force India were running reduced downforce as F1Wolf reports, low levels of wing and sometimes alternating the use of slicks with grooved tyres (as all the teams did that morning).

Bad luck to me is that Jerez is really far away from here, so my next time will be sure when the F1 car’s are unlivered for 2009.

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Comment on 2009 Winter Testing - Barcelona November test summary by Stew

Stew — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:37:59 +0000

It is incredibly early, but despite the looks of the BMW, performance is very good. Only Robert is concerned about the bits and pieces on the track because of broken front wings, but other than that, they are impressed.

Times are good, grip is good and turbulence when close to another car is greatly reduced. Next up for BMW is racing with passing at Jerez. Things look good so early in winter testing.

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Comment on Video - Sebastien Loeb testing Red Bull Racing F1 car by Kotenok

Kotenok — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:22:30 +0000

Humm, as far I know Loeb didn’t need to run any F1 biplace for being telled the next turn by the co-driver Such cars were owned by McLaren or Arrows some years ago.

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Comment on Photos - Valentino Rossi tests Ferrari F2008 Formula 1 car at Mugello by Kotenok

Kotenok — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:12:53 +0000

I guess that the only difference between 2008 car and car which drove Valentino Rossi are some reduction of rpm or some added TC. Anyway, it’s a great news again to see an elite sportsman driving in another category with success, and got good memories of what I’ve seen about ohn Surtees (for sure recorded in videotapes HAHA).

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Comment on 2009 Winter Testing - Barcelona November test summary by kaushal

kaushal — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:39:22 +0000

provide not rovide..

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