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Feb201013

Rob

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The fourth day in Jerez with Lewis Hamilton and McLaren the stars

The fourth day of the F1 pre season testing in Jerez has finished with Lewis Hamilton and McLaren top of the timesheets. The damp but not wet conditions held for the day as most of the teams got the chance to put in some proper dry runs at the Spainish circuit and therefore some more comparable times.
Mercedes had ups and downs though with stopping on track it wasn’t the best day for them even if they did manage to claim fifth spot in the timings. They seem to be showing strong form overall and that must give Michael Schumacher confidence that hes going to have a capable car come the first race of the season.
Williams also had a strong day finishing with third spot in the timings, Rubens Barrichello seems to have the edge on the young Nico Hulkenberg already which is good for him, it’d be great for them to [...]

Feb201012

Rob

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The third day in Jerez, Jaime Alguersuari puts Toro Rosso fastest

The third day of testing at Jerez is now over and the dust on track settled, even with some of the eyes in F1 on the Lotus launch in london the track was no less busy today.
With the action on track coming from Jaime Alguersuari and Toro Rosso who got in a fast lap before the weather turned against the teams later on and BMW Sauber who remain fast taking the second slot behind the Italian team. Virgin suffered again as their parts didn’t reach the circuit in time to get any dry running.
Red Bull improved their times from the other day with Sebastien Vettel at the wheel and so don’t it doesn’t look quite as bad. The big teams of Ferrari and McLaren haven’t made much impression yet on this test but that more than likely means they are focusing on more development and analysis work such as tyre [...]

Feb201003

Rob

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Virgin launch the CFD car

Today Virgin launched their car online on their website, the CFD only – no windtunnel – designed car will hit the track later in the week and they will become the first new team to put some real miles on the car.
The car designed by Wirth Research was set to be unveiled on the teams website but it seems that release had been delayed for a while and that we all had to wait, not the best start for a team that has relyed on it computational expertise to design the car. Hopefully the systems are engineered by different people.
The car itself looks somewhat smoother than the other cars, and it’s striking red and black colours with more flat surfaces, we’ll have to see what it runs like tomorrow.
With the driving partnership of Timo Glock and Lucas di Grassi they’ll be hoping for some problem free days of running to [...]

Jan201022

Rob

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Virgin Racing & CFD

Virgin will be one of the new teams to grace the formula one grid this coming season, with an innovative design technique and the backing of Richard Branson they may just be able to do something spectacular in light of his Brawn success.
Virgin started out as the Manor F1 outfit and quickly got rebranded to Virgin Racing when Richard Branson got involved after the Brawn deal came to an end. Manor’s step up to F1 includes their somewhat odd design approach, no wind tunnel, just CFD – that’s it.
Computational Fluid Dynamics. CFD uses software to model the effects that a fluid – in this case air – will have on the car, it uses some fluid dynamics equations to calculate the effect on each surface in a 3D simulation and then calculates how these forces all work together. It can produce results for downforce and stressing of components both of [...]

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