Comments on: Virgin Racing confirms Manor takeover and announces Lucas di Grassi for 2010

By: Maksutov

Maksutov — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:06:37 +0000

Virgin’s no wind tunnel approach is a heck of a risk.

I agree. Unless they have a very sophisticated fluid dynamics modeling software that nobody knows about (which i doubt). Even so, modeling of turbulence in 3D is extremely difficult.

By: Marrc

Marrc — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:31:31 +0000

virgin have so much money to just spend. i think they should of got a head start and tried to buy schumacher into the team

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:40:47 +0000

Schumacher’s team mate at Spa ’91 was Andrea de Cesaris, who wasn’t a rookie.

By: Pink Peril

Pink Peril — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:06:27 +0000

Virgin budget below the belt? Virgin puts the brakes on blowing (the budget)?

*chortle*

By: wasiF1

wasiF1 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:43:15 +0000

I don’t want Nelson Piquet JR to return.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:52:11 +0000

You forgot to mention other brazilian, Luiz Razia, was named the second test driver…

He had one full season in GP2, with a win from pole at Monza Sprint Race, but failed to score for the rest of the season…

He had a similar performance on 2008-2009 GP2 Asia, with a win from pole in Bahrain 2 Sprint Race, and very poor results on the rest…

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:57:34 +0000

We haven’t heard much from USF1 so far, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything at this stage. Virgin’s no wind tunnel approach is a heck of a risk.

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:56:15 +0000

Coming up here shortly…

By: Ace

Ace — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:22:20 +0000

Sorry for the double post folks. Didn’t think the first one worked. I am shamed.

By: Ace

Ace — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:21:40 +0000

Good idea, it would look cool, but I don’t think Virgin need to try too hard to sell tickets on Virgin Galactic!

The girl on the nose would be great. I like girls.