Give Jenson his BGP001!!

[forty-two]

I can not believe for one minute that McLaren would let two WDC winning chassis goes to Mercedes. Maybe one of the many chassis, but I imagine the one where the WDC was official won is tucked up in Woking. McLaren would not even let drivers keep their trophy, doubt they would let Mercedes keep a chassis!

Whether or not the chassis' in question are the ones used at the end of the season when the championship was clinched or not I cannot be sure. I MIGHT have been mistaken about Lewis' 2008 car, in that it could have been his 2007 car instead which of course did not win the championship, but I think it was.

Surely, Mercedes at the time having been part owners of McLaren could insist on having them there?

[ESPImperium]

Well how many chassis do F1 cars normally run throughout a season? No wonder that Brawn was a bag of nails towards the end! All chassis get old and start to bend etc, and I find it hard to believe that he drove the entire season with 1 chassis!

On average, between 3 and 5 for 2010 onward, but previous seasons saw as many as 7 and 10 tubs being built. BMW Sauber and Toyota were bad for this sometimes using, BMW era Williams were bad, Benneton were also bad for multiple chassis as well. Ferarri and McLaren commonly use arround 6 a season.

From the data i have, the best teams are teams that commonly produce 4 or 5 tubs a year, one for the 7 post rig and the wind tunnel that is in use in pre season testing and is the T car for the first 4 fly aways, two (2 & 3) to start the year for both drivers, and once you get to Europe, a team should introduce its first new chassis (4) for the heavier or more experienced driver at Spain, and the second new one (5) at Turkey, alternating between chassis 2 and 3 for T car duties.

2010 Chassis (To Silverstone):
McLaren MP4/25 = 4
Red Bull RB6 = 4 (1 Wrecked [4 - Webber/Valencia, 1 repaired [3 - Vettel/Monaco])
Ferarri F10 = 4 (1 wercked [283 - Alonso/Monaco)
Mercedes MGP W01 = 3 (1 Repaired [3 - Schumacher/Austrailia to China])
Renault R30 = 3
Force India VJM/3 = 4 (1 Repaired [3 - Liuuzzi/Monaco to Turkey])
Williams FW32 = 4
Sauber C29 = 4 (1 Wrecked {3 - Kobiyashai/Austrailia])
Toro Rosso STR5 = 3
Lotus T127 = 4
Hispania F110 = 3
Virgin VR/01 = 4 (2 scrapped/Fuel Tank Size Too Small [1 & 2])

Here are the 2009 details:

Brawn BGP 001 = 6 (3 BGP001s [2 modified RA109s] 3 Honda RA109s)
Red Bull RB5 = 4 (1 wrecked [3 - Vettel/Austrailia)
Mclaren MP4/24 = 5 (1 wrecked due to KERS fault [4 - Hamilton/Singapore])
BMW Sauber F1.09 = 8 (KERS models 1-6 scrapped from Europe onward)
Renault R29 = 4 (3 KERS, 1 Non KERS)
Toyota TF109 = 6 (1 Wrecked [5 - Glock/Japan Quali])
Williams FW31 = 4
Toro Rosso STR4 = 3
Force India VJM/2 = 4 (1 Wrecked [3 - Sutil/Silverston Quali])