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Feb201012

Rob

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Lotus take off the covers to their 2010 car

Lotus unwrapped the car that will return an iconic name to F1 today, the team has completed a brief shakedown of the car at Silverstone so it works and they are scheduled to join all the other teams for the third test in Jerez next week.
The car looks very business like without some of the more refined aero features that we’ve seen from the other teams, I guess that reflects the limited time that they’ve had to build the car. The classic Livery is back however so it seems.
It’s great that another one of the new teams has actually delivered on building and lanuching a car, I have the same hopes for them as I did for Virgin, just to be on the back of the pack – perhaps even beat them once in a while. That will surely be the aim of Lotus initially anyway.
With Jarno Trulli and Heikki [...]

Feb201010

Rob

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Lotus complete Silverstone shakedown test

The Lotus team became the second newcomers to take to the track for real as they completed a shakedown at Silverstone, there’s an image of the car here from autosport. Nothing seems to have gone wrong at the test which is ahead of the official launch on Friday.
It’s impressive that the team have got a working car together in such short order – they haven’t been around as long as the other new teams and have beaten two of them to the track. I’m not sure that they would have learnt anything about the car other than that it works given the weather in the UK but then that’s a good start. A few years ago when reliability wasn’t what it is now that would have successful for any team.
The car in its iconic livery will join the F1 circus in Jerez for the third test of the season and [...]

Feb201005

Rob

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Testing in F1 – what’s in store next week?

This week’s testing is almost over – that is if you count Virgin Racings shakedown at Silverstone a test, otherwise it was over on Wednesday. We got our taste of most of the big names in Valencia with Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Felipe Massa, Fernando Alonso, Michael Schumacher and more having a day at least each.

Feb201004

Rob

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The Virgin completes it’s first laps

The Virgin Racing VR-01 started it’s shake down at Silverstone today, completing it’s virgin laps. The car looks stunning, in part the colours and in part the design. The question remains though whether their design method will be able to compete with the other teams.
Timo Glock gave the car it’s firt few laps at Silverstone ahead of it’s test in Jerez next week, they’ll do more mileage tomorrow.
I’m still interested to know the design methodology, whether this is a completely human designed car that has been informed by the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) or whether they’ve closed the design loop and let the software – Nick Wirth’s CFDynamo – optimise the design. I know quite a lot about optimisation algorithms and only a few spring to mind that they could use and though the computational power needed would be immense, it is entirely possible. There doesn’t seem to be any [...]

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