This is admission of a design flaw, surely?autosport wrote:With the team not wishing to take any risks, it is flying out new parts to strengthen the front wing to ensure that there will be no repeat.
This is admission of a design flaw, surely?autosport wrote:With the team not wishing to take any risks, it is flying out new parts to strengthen the front wing to ensure that there will be no repeat.
I'm not saying that the wing-failure necessarily was down to a CFD-error Richard, but try this logic for a Moment;richard_leeds wrote:How does anyone know if this is an error in estimating aero load (CFD), or the dynamic loading, or combining those, or material behaviour assumed in the FEA, or carbon manufacturing defect, or a resin defect, or a kiln defect, or contamination, or a post manufacturing bash (dropped it!), or something else. Also, it could be a combination of many of the above, none of which was deemed a failure in isolation?
+1RacingManiac wrote:Given that unlike an existing team they have little data to go by(especially something like vibration or other load caused by road profile and curbing(something gathered from tens of thousands of miles of running in the years of data logging), it could just be an underestimated load cases....This is F1 afterall, you can't go conservative everywhere.
At the end of the day thats what testing is for. It validates and corrects your design. Wind tunnel or not its just an intermediate step. If their economic does not allow it, they can't use it, simple as that. Breaking stuff here is better than doing it at Bahrain...
Thanks for the compliment, but I'm now going to repay it by saying you're wrong about Max.Tazio wrote: Good call hawk-eyes myurr, and smik'. Bottom line good thing it happened here and not in Bahrain. which to me brings up an interesting point.
--- happens Bulk is coming back from an injury that was caused (arguably IMVHO) by a slightly under-funded that happened to win the whole shooting match team. There is no way in hell they can let META, USF1, or any other Stefan into a world championship race weekend without testing extensively beforehand.
Here me now, and understand me later. Max would not let this go unchallenged. He brought a very real and pragmatic view (when it came to safety) to the table. Start three races into the season, with only passing a crash test and procedural qualifications super license for drivers, & etc into a dogfight?
Not on his watch! No freakin’ way He was set-up by Bernie!
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even experienced teams can do it wrong. few years back Sauber was loosing his back wings due vibrations caused by Interlagos' bumps... even McLaren was able to lose the wing on the straight due manufacturing error.RacingManiac wrote:Given that unlike an existing team they have little data to go by(especially something like vibration or other load caused by road profile and curbing(something gathered from tens of thousands of miles of running in the years of data logging), it could just be an underestimated load cases....This is F1 afterall, you can't go conservative everywhere.