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Get off my lawn kids! One of the earliest members of the blog and the forum :D
Found it while just searching for like-minded F1 fans. Part of the earliest moderators/commentators of the liveblog too :D
If they start to get into it seriously, expect to see them hiring a lot of new engineers, whether it is at the HQ or people travelling with the race team. There is a difference in being able to use an engine properly and making one. I’d love to see them building engines, but for a company who has outsourced their work for decades now, it’s going to be an uphill task.
Designing an engine from the ground up is a very very very difficult task. Designing aero parts is relatively less difficult because the manufacturing is a commonly-known process that most of the engineers would know. Not to say that designing aero is easy, but it’s usually a single guy’s vision pulling the rest of the aero staff in his direction.
Designing something that can make 800 horsepower without exploding/disintegrating and going through 2-3 races while having atleast 50-100 moving parts is not something that can be developed over a period of a year.
There is a reason why Ferrari or Mercedes engines make the amount of power that they do while having the reliability. They’ve been at it for dogs years and their current designs are always a refinement of the designs used in the making of the previous engines which includes decades of experience. There is hardly a revolution in engine-building unless you throw a completely new set of rules at the engine manufacturers. Consider how long Mercedes engines have been the most powerful and you’ll understand what I’m saying.
Secondly, building a bulletproof engine requires more engineers from more faculties than the rest of the car’s staff put together. You need metallurgical engineers, electrical engineers, chemical engineers and who knows how many more.
Sorry for the wall of text, but I build engines and cannot stand people who think that a new engine can be developed over a weekend while sitting on your couch in the living room.
This is not to say that they won’t ever get to it. McLaren have already got their hands into the bucket by building the 12C engine, but compared to the engineering required to build an F1 engine, the 12C’s engine is nothing. They’ll get to it for sure, but don’t expect them to be reliable or powerful if they’re running a McLaren engine inside during the first race in 2013.
Idiot.
For the first time we have many teams in contention with drivers capable enough of destroying the opposition on their day. And coupled with the fact that most of them make a lot of mistakes (unlike Schumacher) means that the championship is going to be close.
Has nothing to do with the points system.
The secret to Keith’s speed LOL.
Just found it weird for a second, then assumed that FIA had disqualified the Red Bulls after the race lol.
Trulli still drives better than most of the rookies. What’s the point of letting a old driver go just to have a slower younger driver in the car? And besides, Trulli has always been a qualifying specialist; something these new kids can’t get right most of the time.
Nothing different from 2007 when he had to ‘assist’ Kimi at Brazil. Let’s see what he can offer next year. And the suggestion that Ferrari would want to fire him next year is stupid. He can be a great #2 driver to Alonso, which Ferrari would use completely. They’d rather have an Alonso and a Massa in the seat instead of Alonso and Kubica or anyone else.
They are faked in the race.
I did a 1.59 on the first lap, started in 6th pos. Finished the lap in 1st place.
That, by default, would give me the fastest laptime of all. Unless you can change physics.
But no, the 2 guys behind me (Alonso and Webber I think) were rocking with 1.55s. T4RG4 is a Codemasters employee. Don’t expect him to speak the truth.
