Klon wrote:Ferrim wrote:The Spanish commentators were saying that in order to be entitled to qualify, HRT needed to send a car to the track on FP2. I don't know whether that's true but as Liuzzi went to the track, the lead commentator said:
"It remembers me of that team, Andrea Moda, where the second driver went to the track for a couple of laps just because the team needed it, but he wasn't really competing".
Brilliant. It's a pity that these guys (him and Andy Soucek in the supporting role) are not the ones commentating the race itself.
Well, they are indeed wrong and should learn to read the bathplugging rulebook. To participate in an F1 race, a car must have participated in at least one pratice session (qualifying being such a session) and manage to pose a time in qualifying witch is less than 107 % off Q1's fastest time. It's not that hard.
The qualifying, or reading the rule book?
patrick wrote:eytl wrote:I just love how the so-called new car is such a derivative of the old car that parts such as the nose and front wings are interchangeable at all!
On the FP1 broadcast they mentioned the car was made by the same company that supplied Toro Rosso with the 2008 car (that won a race). The name of the company escapes me at the moment, but it wasn't Dallara as we know, so indeed, they have most likely deliberately constructed the car in such a manner, knowing full well they would need to use old parts.
Jeroen Krautmeir wrote:Surely bolting together parts of the 2010 car is going to upset aero balance
we would have to assume the car had any aero balance to begin with, which appears unlikely
Well, Craig Scarborough, who has a good blog about technical developments within F1, said that he had spoken to Kolles about the F111, and Kolles had admitted that the current monocoque is partially derived from Dallara's designs (the upper half is identical). Given that, it is perhaps not unsurprising that aerodynamic parts are interchangeable between the two cars, although hardly inspiring in terms of performance. Also, the company that you are thinking of is CarboTech GmbH, a German composites specialist who also work with Toro Rosso.
Meanwhile, although Kolles is promising a "normal day" tomorrow, with the cars aiming to rack up as many miles in the final practise session as possible ahead of qualifying, there is some bad news about their front wing. Although the F111 has passed the scruitineering checks, some sources have claimed that they have not been allowed to use the new front wing because it has not been crash tested; at least, that is what Autosport are saying.
The team, which did not do any testing with the new car, will be forced to use last year's front wing, however, as the new one has not yet passed the mandatory FIA crash tests.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/90190There are even some rumours that the entire car might not have completed the necessary crash tests floating around the paddock, although that just seems to be malicious gossip. When Ted Kravitz tracked down Kolles and asked him about these rumours, he denied that the car hadn't completed the necessary crash tests, saying that they passed all the tests over a month ago (probably at the Cranfield Research Laboratory). Now, I'm inclined to believe Kolles about this because of the chassis homologation rules, but rumours like this are hardly going to encourage investors to flock to the team, are they?
