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Team: Adrian Newey (CTO), Petr Prodromou (CA), Rob Marshall (CD), Christian Horner (TP)
Drivers: Sebastian Vettel (1), Mark Webber (2), Sebastian Buemi (reserve)
Interesting. So the A-spec was a sort of legalised bastardised version of something they had earlier. And it turns out (if what Newey's saying is true) that they DIDN'T copy the Sauber/McLaren systems...Adrian Newey wrote:This weekend we're evaluating some further evolutions on the bodywork with Mark's car. Seb's car we've actually put back to the launch bodywork. We just wanted to re-evaluate the changes between what we launched with and what we introduced at the last test. The last test was always a planned thing; we had a regulation clarification at the beginning of November which banned the route that we had been developing the exhausts so we decided to launch the car with a kind of legalised version of what we had been working on up to that November date. And then from November we started developing the solution that we saw at the last test and carried in to the first two races.
Depends on whether you actually believe team members when they talk about things that are so crucial or not.raymondu999 wrote:Interesting. So the A-spec was a sort of legalised bastardised version of something they had earlier. And it turns out (if what Newey's saying is true) that they DIDN'T copy the Sauber/McLaren systems...Adrian Newey wrote:This weekend we're evaluating some further evolutions on the bodywork with Mark's car. Seb's car we've actually put back to the launch bodywork. We just wanted to re-evaluate the changes between what we launched with and what we introduced at the last test. The last test was always a planned thing; we had a regulation clarification at the beginning of November which banned the route that we had been developing the exhausts so we decided to launch the car with a kind of legalised version of what we had been working on up to that November date. And then from November we started developing the solution that we saw at the last test and carried in to the first two races.
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Adrian Newey has confirmed that Vettel will stick with the old exhaust layout for the rest of the weekend, but maybe not beyond
Does November seem a little late in the cars development, considering they started working on it long before the end of last season, to recieve a clarfication saying the route they had taken with the exhaust was bannedraymondu999 wrote:Interesting. So the A-spec was a sort of legalised bastardised version of something they had earlier. And it turns out (if what Newey's saying is true) that they DIDN'T copy the Sauber/McLaren systems...Adrian Newey wrote:This weekend we're evaluating some further evolutions on the bodywork with Mark's car. Seb's car we've actually put back to the launch bodywork. We just wanted to re-evaluate the changes between what we launched with and what we introduced at the last test. The last test was always a planned thing; we had a regulation clarification at the beginning of November which banned the route that we had been developing the exhausts so we decided to launch the car with a kind of legalised version of what we had been working on up to that November date. And then from November we started developing the solution that we saw at the last test and carried in to the first two races.
Or the exhaust blowing does not matter much. Does it not seem odd that a big team like this is still not sure what direction to point the exhaust flow.Goran2812 wrote:Hm... They are not sure which way to go... Uncharacteristic for Red Bull I must add...
You could be right! The two Red Bull cars are running differing systems, yet their times are very similar.hardingfv32 wrote:Or the exhaust blowing does not matter much. Does it not seem odd that a big team like this is still not sure what direction to point the exhaust flow.Goran2812 wrote:Hm... They are not sure which way to go... Uncharacteristic for Red Bull I must add...
Brian
You are right, this is about as good a back to back test as we are going to see for the purpose of evaluating how the exhaust should be a configured.gilgen wrote: The two Red Bull cars are running differing systems, yet their times are very similar.
Assuming that Vettel is normally the faster driver, it would appear that the two cars are pretty evenly matched.
I think it matters, but everything else about the car needs to be sorted to get any gain from it. Sky interviewed Buemi today and were asking him about the fact they were using 2 different specs. He said the there was a gain to be had from the latest exhaust spec according to the data, but not at the expense of overall balance. He said the launch spec didn't have as much DF as the "blown" solution but had better balance. Basically he said they thought the latest spec has the best potential but needs more development.hardingfv32 wrote:Or the exhaust blowing does not matter much. Does it not seem odd that a big team like this is still not sure what direction to point the exhaust flow.Goran2812 wrote:Hm... They are not sure which way to go... Uncharacteristic for Red Bull I must add...
Brian
Balance... We are talking about a transient balance, one more subject to the variations in exhaust flow?Crucial_Xtreme wrote: didn't have as much DF as the "blown" solution but had better balance.
