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[Turpoo]

Ten Things That Will Happen This Season

The waiting is almost over and the 2006 season is almost upon us. And though we've tended to make a habit of saying this since the 2002 season made us near-suicidal, this could be the closest season for a while.

Now the 2003 was pretty good, with Raikkonen, Schumacher and Montoya battling it out till the closing stages and Schumi only just clinching it in the final race. But this year we could potentially have winners from seven teams: Renault, Ferrari, Mclaren, Honda, Toyota (if Jarno Trulli were to hook up a great qualifying lap round Monaco), Williams (if the Cosworth V8 is as good as Max Mosley says it is) and BMW-Sauber.

Though it's more likely that it will be the three teams that finished in the top three places in the constructors' championship and Honda that are vying for the win in Bahrain, the other three have both the driving talent and the reliability to sneak a result.

Ten Things You Can Expect To See Happen
* Kimi Raikkonen hurling his steering wheel after a McLaren engine failure. Leopards don't change their spots overnight, even if they have changed the livery of the car.

* Max Mosley tinkering with the rules mid-season - he'll call it a 'clarification'
Other teams protesting about he rev limit on the Scuderia Lollo Ross car if they beat some of the decent V8 teams in Bahrain.

* Gerhard Berger being interviewed a lot. Exit Paul Stoddart as someone not shy of an opinion in the paddock, enter Gerhard Berger. (Though he likes to put on the jovial persona for TV interviews, when he was driving in his final season for Benetton he was moan moan moan).

* Paul Stoddart, Eddie Jordan, and Eddie Irvine offering their opinion from the sideline, all secretly wishing they were still a player in F1. (And the great thing is, with Max trying to attract more low-cost teams into the sport, Stoddie could come back in. Yehey!)

* More rows about the facilities at Silverstone. Ever since Bernie's plan to expand Brands Hatch hit a brickwall, he's made it a personal mission to hound Silverstone, and now the board have started questioning their big, new investor, then more delay, rumpus, trouble and Bernie throwing his toys out of the pram.

* Bridgestone becoming the solo tyre supplier to the F1 field and handing an advantage to their runners for the 2007 season.

* Less than five significant overtaking manoeuvres will take place in the San Marino Grand Prix. Last year we had a little more action than usual thanks to the teams running tyres for the entire race, but this year it's going to be more high-speed queuing

Ten Things That May Well Happen
* Ralf Schumacher and Michael Schumacher may well disappear from F1 in the same season. Though Ralf is apparently contracted beyond this year there are small signs that the back injury that he picked up at Indianapolis in 2004, coupled with the massive roll he had in testing at Monza are beginning to slow him down.

* Jenson Button will win a grand prix and shut a lot of people up.

* Valentino Rossi will sign for Ferrari mid-season. There are only so many MotoGP races you can win.

* A 2008 date for the Indian GP announced along with a 2009 Russian GP at St.Petersburg, plus the news that the Nurgburgring and Hockenheim will take it in turns to stage the German GP.

* The U.S. will be enticed back to F1 after Scott Speed puts in some eyecatching performances (The American Speed TV organisation that shows F1 in the States will try and get Scott to add the name Channel to his surname, so he becomes Scott Speed-Channel).

* The new Super Aguri won't appear after the first four races - it'll probably be closer to the fourteenth race.

* With the loss of Gunther Steiner to the Red Bull NASCAR project, Red Bull won't do nearly as well in 2006 as they did in 2005 - thus making David Coulthard's beard even greyer.

* They'll probably remember to lock all the drain covers down this time for the Chinese GP in Shanghai.

* Martin Brundle will interview Bernie Ecclestone on the grid and he'll answer a question with another question.

* Fisi will lose it under pressure in a key race, while the biggest drag coefficient on the new Super Aguris will be the four mirrors they have to fit for Takuma Sato.

Hyvin alkaa nuo ennustukset. Oli nimittäin karvaa vaille etteikö Räxä olis potkassut tuota koslaa Toinen pykälähän onkin jo toteutunut:

"FIA has made a last-minute change to the rules relating to the qualifying session... stop and you are out.

Literally hours before the season kicks off, the FIA has warned that following its rule 'tweak', any car which stops out on track will play no further part in the session, even if has posted a time good enough to guarantee it a place in the next round of the 'knock-out' procedure. This applies to all cars, whether they stop on track with a mechanical issue or spin off.According to the FIA, cars that stop on track will now be returned to parc ferme, and not returned to the teams."

Miten voi olla totta etteivät ole miettineet tuota aikaisemmin :doubtful: :eek!:

 

[the flying finn]

Ferrarilla laiton takasiipi?

Tästä on ennenkin puhuttu, mutta nyt tämä aihe on oussut tuoreena pinnalle. Eli Ferrarin takasiiven sanotaan olevan laiton, mutta laillinenhan se on, koska FIA on hyväksynyt sen

Ferrari's rear wing illegal?
12 March 2006

After Ferrari's stunning performance on Saturday the design of their rear wing has been questioned by some teams, although the FIA said the flexible rear wing is completely legal on the Ferrari 248 F1 as it was checked on Saturday morning.

The FIA always checks every car to see if it is completely legal. They measure how flexible the wings are and if it is still within the book.

Pat Symonds told reporters in Bahrain: "I am not at all happy about it. It is very clear what you can or cannot do within the rules. There might be specific rules about specific parts, but there are also general rules and I know exactly what that Ferrari wing does. And that is not what I would expect it should do."

 

[butterfly]

Ikava sanoa mutta tottakai se on laillinen ku se on ferrarissa..

FIAt. Fair play.

 

[MikGo]

Mikähän se raja on kuinka paljon saa siivekkeet ym. taipua? Meinaa kyllä Renaultillakin pari senttiä peilit taipuu kun mennään suoralla. Katsokaa vaikkapa incar kamerasta kun seuraavan kerran näyttävät.

 

[butterfly]

Mikähän se raja on kuinka paljon saa siivekkeet ym. taipua? Meinaa kyllä Renaultillakin pari senttiä peilit taipuu kun mennään suoralla. Katsokaa vaikkapa incar kamerasta kun seuraavan kerran näyttävät.

Se oli minun mielesta muutaman millin mita saa taipua. Ei ole kylla hajuakaan miten ne niita mittaa

 

[YoNzZu]

Se oli minun mielesta muutaman millin mita saa taipua. Ei ole kylla hajuakaan miten ne niita mittaa

Onneksi Heikki tietää:

Mittaus suoritetaan kohdistamalla painolasti siivekkeeseen. Takasiivekkeen ylin elementti saa joustaa viisi ja etuelementti kaksi milliä.

 

[Ghost_Glove]

Ainakin VM:ssä on joskus ollu kuvien kans noita testaus menetelmiä...
Tietyn massan aihettumalla vedolla ne muistaakseni takasiipee testaa...
Ihan rataolosuhteitahan se ei vastaa...

Mutta kuten edellä sanottu niin minustakin testit läpäissyt siipi(tai mikä vaan) on laillinen...

 

[Turpoo]

Voisikohan olla mahdollista että Pat Symonds viittaa sellaiseen seikkaan että Ferrarin takasiipi joustaa useammasta paikkaan jolloin etu- ja takasiivekkeen kokonaisjousto olisi huomattavasti enemmän yli sallitun rajan? :dunno:

 

[Bobakki]

Voisikohan olla mahdollista että Pat Symonds viittaa sellaiseen seikkaan että Ferrarin takasiipi joustaa useammasta paikkaan jolloin etu- ja takasiivekkeen kokonaisjousto olisi huomattavasti enemmän yli sallitun rajan? :dunno:

Eiköhän kyse ole tästä jo aiemmin todetusta jutusta, että FIA:n testi ei anna täyttä kuvaa siiven joustosta, eli on mahdollista tehdä testin läpäisevä siipi, joka kuitenkin taipuu enemmän kuin sallittua sitten ajossa.

 

[Toni_V]

Coulthardille moottorinvaihto Bahrainissa

David-pojan kone laukesi Bahrainissa maaliviivan jälkeen. Rangaistuksena siis 10 sijaa huonompi lähtöruutu tulevaan Malesian kisaan.

http://www.sportinglife.com/formula1/news

Eiköhän kyse ole tästä jo aiemmin todetusta jutusta, että FIA:n testi ei anna täyttä kuvaa siiven joustosta, eli on mahdollista tehdä testin läpäisevä siipi, joka kuitenkin taipuu enemmän kuin sallittua sitten ajossa.

Näinhän se varmaan tuossa Ferrarin tilanteessa on. FIA muistaakseni testaa siiven vain kuormituksella alaspäin, kun jo "ennenvanhaan" siivillä huijattiin nimenomaan koko takasiiven taipumisella taaksepäin.

 

[Ghost_Glove]

Kyllä takasiipee vedetään muistaakseni testeissä ylimmänprofiilin jostakin kohdasta taakse päin...

Ja nuo koko siiven taipumiset luulis olevan jo pois kitkettyjä...

 

[poko]

Fuji to host Japanese Grand Prix from 2007
:mad_old: :jaska:

 

[DFiaA]

Fuji to host Japanese Grand Prix from 2007
:mad_old: :jaska:

Ihan hyvää vaihtelua. Suzuka on kova rata mutta eiköhän siellä ole kurvailtu jo tarpeeksi. Etenkin jäisi historiankirjoihin kun viimeisimmän kisan voitti Kimi lKimi loistavalla ajolla :thumbup:

Jonkinlaisia vuorottelua kaipaisi ratojen välillä. Hieman tylsää joka vuosi samat radat.

 

[Ghost_Glove]

Jonkinlaisia vuorottelua kaipaisi ratojen välillä. Hieman tylsää joka vuosi samat radat.

Joo mun mielestä kans tuo ehdotettu vuorottelu ratojen välillä olis hyvä juttu...

 

[butterfly]

Jaahas, toyota omistaa fujin radan ja honda suzukan? Enpas tiennytkaan sita. Muistaako kukaan foorumin vanhoista parruista etta minkalainen rata on kyseessa? Uusittu se on mutta onko hyva kilparata?

 

[DFiaA]

Fisichella

Renault has not yet got to the bottom of the engine-related problem that afflicted Giancarlo Fisichella at the Bahrain Grand Prix.

The Italian driver complained of a loss of power during the final qualifying segment and continued to struggle during the race until being sidelined by a hydraulics failure.

“We do not yet know the exact cause of the problem but with a power deficit of around 50bhp, he drove a very impressive race,” said Renault’s head of trackside engine operations Denis Chevrier.

“It is important to say the problem was not with the engine itself, rather with a peripheral component that led to a problem with how the engine was operating.

“In order to make a proper diagnosis in the best conditions, we have sent the engine back to [the Renault engine factory at] Viry to be dyno tested this week with some very high performance diagnostic tools.”

Fisichella will have a fresh engine in Malaysia this weekend and is hoping for a change in his perennial bad luck.

“I am very positive,” he said.

“Last year I won the first race then had a difficult season. This year I hope it will be the other way round – a bad race then a lot of good results!

Vau. Hienoa. Huono eka kisa tietenkin lupaa hyvää loppukautta.

“I will have a fresh engine in Malaysia, and we know that it was not a problem with the V8 itself.

“My approach will be the same: to try and go for the win.”

Fisichella believes the Renault R26 will be ideally suited to the Sepang circuit’s mixture of high-speed sweeping corners, hairpins and long straights.

“I think the circuit will suit our strong points with the R26, maybe more than Bahrain,” he said.

“It has all the characteristics we believe suit our package.”

Mitäs jos kuitenkin odottaisit että pääset radalle ajamaan. Ei niitä kisoja ole ennenkään keskiviikkona voitettu.

Chevrier pointed out that the switch to V8 engines will actually make Sepang a more demanding circuit for engine reliability than in the past.

“The nature of the circuit layout, with the high-speed corners, means the drivers will spend 15% more time at full throttle than last year,” he said.

“It will be a demanding weekend for the V8, and at its conclusion we will have a much better idea of how things stand for the first iteration of the V8 engines in terms of performance and reliability.”

 

[Bobakki]

Epäolennainen komponentti. Kakkoskuski?

Vau. Hienoa. Huono eka kisa tietenkin lupaa hyvää loppukautta.

Aika halpamaista. Jos Fisico on niin huono kuin kaikki väittää, ei moiseen vääristelyyn varmaan ole tarvetta.

 

[the flying finn]

Massan moottori meni vaihtoon, uutisoivat TS ja MTV3 ainakin

 

[äxä]

MTV3 Internet

" MF1-tallin sveitsiläisen kolmoskuljettajan Giorgio Mondinin niskalihakset eivät kestäneet kahden ajotunnin rasituksia Malesian GP:n harjoituksissa.

- Se oli mahtavaa, todella fantastista, mutta minun niskani petti toisen jakson loppua kohden. Sain ajettua hyvän kierroksen ja halusin ajaa vielä paremman. Uskon, että olisin pystynyt ajamaan jopa nopeammin, mutta niskani ei kestänyt enempää. Minkäänlaisella harjoittelulla ei pysty valmistautumaan tällaiseen rasitukseen."

Sinänsä mitätön uutinen, mutta pakko kommentoida silti.
Kaikenlaisia amatöörejä sitä formulan rattiin päästetäänkin. Vai ei pysty millään tavalla valmistautumaan F1:sen rasituksiin??? Kummasti siellä ajavilla kilpakuskeilla ei ole mitään ongelmia, ei edes Nicolla...

 

[Pete]

Kai se tarkoittaa, ettei voi valmistautua mitenkään muuten kuin ajamalla paljon testeissä. Lieneeköhän Mondini päässyt testaamaan Midlandia paljoa ennen tätä koitosta?