bernard wrote:
Reca, good reply. I'm glad you can admit you were wrong. Takes a man to be able do that.
You know, there’s only One who’s never wrong, each human being on this planet is quite often wrong. Especially in engineering where you have to make choices, not always it’s black or white (almost never actually), so you have to look at the balance between the advantages and disadvantages of different solutions. I think that there are lot of engineers in F1 who wouldn’t adopt the same solution as McLaren, and at the same time lot of engineers who would, and in both groups, most are ready to change opinion as a consequence of the McLaren results (although I’ve the suspect that the Renault V-keel could be more appreciated by the first group). Last year I read an article by Sergio Rinland on an Italian magazine, just few weeks before the start of the season, he analysed all the cars from a technical point of view and declared that Mp4/19 and FW26 would have easily beaten the F2004 because the latter had a too traditional front end (Rinland is obviously biased on the twin keel...). Well you know what happened then... so if Sergio Rinland, who has infinitively more experience than me, can be a “tiny bit” wrong, I think I can live with my misjudgements.
bernard wrote:
But seriously about the latter part of your post... with nosecone I obviously meant the tub back then and I think you understood that.
Seriously, I wouldn’t be as sure as you are about the fact that I understood it, I understand it now, but at the time, considering your remark, on another thread, that McLaren particularly and also other cars have a relatively low nose, not really. My mistake, sorry, let’s close that discussion, isn’t worth more words than we already spent on it.
At the end about the Scarbs article, I didn’t read it because I’m not a subscriber but the point I was trying to make is, and please take it as a friendly advice, that IMO you get “mad” a bit too easily about these things. Every professional (photographs included
) tries to do the best with the resources he has at the moment, I’m sure that when Scarbs will have the chance to take a good look to the car (something we all envy him for), and to talk with people at McLaren, he’ll write a wonderful and very detailed article, you just have to be patient, to “let your fury explode” (obviously that’s an exaggeration) on a public forum just because of that single article isn’t nice.
I give you an example, since I referred previously to the V-keel, yesterday I’ve bought Autosprint, an Italian weekly printed probably on Monday to be sold on Tuesday, Piola does for it the same work Scarbs does for Atlas, technical articles. In the R25 analysis he says that the car has a particular solution for the attachment of the lower wishbone but it wasn’t possible to be more precise, he had to wait for the launch. I didn’t notice that particular from R25 pics last week, my impression was that the car was simply a single keel, so I didn’t pay big attention to the area. But when I read the article, yesterday at noon, I looked at the pics I downloaded from last week test and playing a bit with brightness on a couple of them, particularly the first one I linked to in the R25’s thread, the solution was pretty evident. Is Piola an idiot because he didn’t make the same little effort to see it ? Well, to be honest once you know, and he clearly knew it, that there’s something particular there, it wasn’t needed a genius to find it... but isn’t necessary to be mad with him for that, maybe he even did it but then he simply preferred to wait, look at the car, and be sure about it. And in fact, yesterday night, on a tv program with a report of the launch, he described the solution and I’m sure he will write a very good article about it next Tuesday, possibly with a little story of all the different solution adopted in the years to solve that problem. Yes, I spent 2.5€ to buy the magazine and surely I would have appreciated a bit more of precision yesterday, but on the same magazine there was also lot more than just that Piola’s article, and I’m sure in Atlas there’s lot more than just that Scarbs’, for once non excellent, article.
Well, I had a bit of time on hands and I did write more than planned, anyway... I hope that you will continue to post here, just, my friendly suggestion and I think everyone will appreciate it, is : try to be a bit less aggressive and understand that people can disagree with you; you, me, everyone can make mistakes, and that’s not a crime.
I’ll try to do the same.
