ringo wrote:I am sorry for Kubica, worst move of the year!!
Pedro de la Rosa should be laughing his head off.
Why did Kubica move from Sauber?
This R"30" looks like it was only made to see Renault through the year and nothing else.
It is basically an R29. All they did was make new exhaust pipes. new suspesnion arms, they cut the styro foam chin off, hack sawed the nose at an angle and glued it on back. Simple adjustments that a team would make to update their car through the season. This does not look like 1 year worth of work, and i am not buying it from Renault.
This is downright laziness, just look at the cat notstril radiator inlets, they're the same thing from the R29!
This R30 must be one of the Pimp my ride lost episodes.
Kubica moved from Sauber because Sauber didn't exist in the time when he moved. BMW pulled out and the team was dead until Peter managed to save it at the last moment.
Obliviously you haven't took the time to check gallery and compare pictures. That is completely new car, without any big part from R29 fitting on it. New chassis, new floor, new suspension, new nose, new engine cover, new sidepods, new airbox, new mirros, new wings, new brake ducting. And yes,
new radiator inlets. R29 had wider and shorter ones, with additional aperture for KERS cooling below radiator inlets.
That is called development. Just like F2004 was development of F2003GA, or just like R26 was development of R25.
As a matter of fact, exhaust is the only thing that remained untouched.
Can't wait to see them beating others with low consumption. It will be hilarious to see guzzlers with "revolutionary" design, fitted with fuel tanks 20 liters bigger than Renault's, cruising of save fuel mode, running of it, and being overtaken in the final laps.