Lotus have brought a new rear wing for their T127 following the car’s substantial update just two races ago.
Chief technical director Mike Gascoyne said:
We’ll be using our new pillar mounted rear wing here, and have some new parts which will enable us to optimise the weight distribution, so again, I’m quietly confident we’ll bridge the gap to those in front that little bit more.
Mike Gascoyne
The gap between the midfield teams and the new outfits has decreased since the start of the season. Lotus and Virgin have been closely matched so far.
Among the other updates set to appear tomorrow are F-ducts on the Force India VJM03 and Red Bull’s RB6.
According to BBC commentator Jonathan Legard on Twitter Red Bull are bringing a “very different looking” car to Istanbul this weekend. Sebastian Vettel’s new chassis will be nicknamed ‘Randy Mandy’.
2010 Turkish Grand Prix
MacLeod
27th May 2010, 15:34
Randy Mandy oh my god! I wonder what the top speeds of all the cars will be!
East Londoner
27th May 2010, 16:22
Oh, so he has divorced Liz. Poor Liz.
Icthyes
27th May 2010, 19:45
He has form. Remember when he cheated on Kate with her dirty sister? ;-)
DanThorn
27th May 2010, 15:42
He should have called it Mark Webber.
Sush Meerkat
27th May 2010, 15:51
Yeah Mark was all over the competition in the past two races, pretty apt name.
I hope his next car is called “Linger Minger” or something like that.
East Londoner
27th May 2010, 16:23
Red Bull with F-duct is going to be absolutly unbeatable unless it rains or the car breaks down.
Patrickl
27th May 2010, 17:16
Actually I suspect the Red Bull will do really well in the rain. Indeed they were struggling in intermediate conditions, but in the rain I’d assume they would do better. More like China 2009 or Monza 2008.
Scribe
27th May 2010, 18:54
They’ll do well on full wets, but really theres no hurry for them to fix there problems with the intermediates. It’s really there strength on everything else.
nick
27th May 2010, 19:15
Redbull with an f-duct and their level of downforce is going to be something to behold.
With the speed and consistency they are bringing updates to the car I currently don’t see their level of performance being over taken in a hurry (caught on the other hand maybe)
I remember a quote from I think it was autosport in the late 90’s. “Your building a F1 team, do you have Shumacher for £27 million a season, or Newey for £2 million.” I think the quotes point still applies. Maybe change the word Shumacher for Alonso though.
Icthyes
27th May 2010, 19:48
Or you could have Rory Byrne and Michael Schumacher ;-)
DanThorn
28th May 2010, 10:59
Aye, as I recall that combination had a bit of success didn’t it?
Himmat
28th May 2010, 3:16
I hope they will be less than 1s off the last of the midfield runners now….
Mike
28th May 2010, 5:06
Hmmm…. without the midfielder teams making mistakes? I doubt it…
wasiF1
28th May 2010, 8:14
Among the new teams I expect Lotus to do the best.
Adrian
28th May 2010, 16:10
I want to know when they’re going to update those boxy looking sidepods…hopefully in the set of upgrades they’ve said they’re bringing to Silverstone.
BasCB
28th May 2010, 21:13
Me too! I thought they would do that with the first big uprade, but now it should be the one for Silverstone.
Surely it can make them about 2-3 tenths faster?