2006 F1 Season

[ctjet]

hahaha i just saw those pics on f1onboard.com

Mclaren reckon that their new paint lessens the areo drag of the whole car... these ppl are full on man

i love them so much

[Roy]

Williams dont look to be on too bad a shape considering the other teams they recently tested with.

Its great that Wurz is with Williams. What is a but disurbing is all the talk of a seat for Wurz is an oprion for 2007 and part of the reason he left McLaren

Times from Valencia

1.- Mark Webber AUS Williams 1.10.601 94 vueltas

2.- Christian Klien AUT Red Bull 1.11.254 100 vueltas

3.- Pedro de la Rosa ESP McLaren 1.11.619 16 vueltas

4.- Juan Pablo Montoya COL McLaren 1.11.700 51 vueltas

5.- Alex Wurz AUT Williams 1.12.657 48 vueltas

6.- Thiago Monteiro POR Midland 1.12.924 82 vueltas

7.- Robert Doornbos GBR Red Bull 1.13.696 86 vueltas

8.- Markus Winkelhock ALE Midland 1.14.299 77 vueltas

9.- Giogio Mondini ITA Midland 1.24.110 16 vueltas

PLease dont let this be a testing thing...please let the Williams have a competitive chassis...Honda and other teams have already commented that the Cosworth engin is exceeding ppls expectations of it

[Beer Baron]

dont get your hopes up troy boy.

they always say that! it makes their motor look better when they blow past the cosworth down the straight... lol

[MONTOYA]

dont get your hopes up troy boy.

they always say that! it makes their motor look better when they blow past the cosworth down the straight... lol

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

lol.Yeah these guys are pretty smart.they always do and say things like that.

Theres a pretty big cap to Klein,mmmm makes you wonder what fuel loads he was running. 8tenhs of a second is a huge gap.Either Williams has built the quickest F1 car of history or RBR has built a go cart.

I think when the 1st race startsFerrari and Honda will have a pretty good advantage because of their testing there.But im sure Renault will be the pace setters.Will be interesting to see

But Webber is lookin strong against Rosberg,judging by recent test together.im pretty confendent webber will eat him up in the 1st half of the year and by the end of the year will have at least twice as many points.

Wurz is a good driver and would deffently push Webber.I remember when he 1st started in F1 and he was quick.Flavio didnt like him much and Benetton gave him a shxt car in his last year with them to make him look bad.But in his last race they gave him Fizzys car and he was a gun in it.After the race reporters were interviewing Flavio and asked why Wurz was so quick and he said "duno,mybe he got into fizzts car by mistake!" lol.

[Roy]

Its only testing for sure...but the fact remains the car did tha time...it mauy have been on empty tanks...but a time is a time.

Im allowing myself to now get a bit excited, the main thing the Cosworth has been reliable and its no boat anchor, so the package is looking ok

[yogi000]

i think webber is abit of let down when he's stuck in traffic...but i hope it changes this year.

[MONTOYA]

Yeah but these guys are races at heart and lets face it no one wants to sit behind another car all day so what does that tell you?its not the guys driving them,its the areo.These days with all the shxt on the cars it must be all most impossible to over take another car if he dosnt make 1 mistake.Hopfully over the next few years the fia will change some areo rules

[Beer Baron]

Its only testing for sure...but the fact remains the car did tha time...it mauy have been on empty tanks...but a time is a time.

Im allowing myself to now get a bit excited, the main thing the Cosworth has been reliable and its no boat anchor, so the package is looking ok

yes, the engine may be good, but williams have not had the best aero or best handling cars of late... lets hope something has changed for this year!

fingers crossed X 1000

[ZigenGT]

I think the same big players will dominate the scene again. Renault, Ferrari & McLaren will again be the ones to watch. Honda & Toyota might get their first wins too. Dark horses will be Williams & Red Bull. Don't think BMW will do too well though..

[lukits01]

Seems to me that Renault and Honda are the winners of winter testing

Ferrari, Williams and Mclaren are playing catch up while Toyota, BMW, and Red Bull are just mid fielders

[ctjet]

apparently the final testing times are of no real relevance unless u check them carefully...

you really have to see how these cars perform on long runs because a lot of teams hav been known to take wieght out of the car and de-restrict some engine parts just to throw in a quick one for the media right at the end of a test testing day *cough Ferrari cough Honda cough*

in reality its Renault and Mclaren again this year...

[knore]

I still love f1 but i still dont understand why they are on the v8 train now

ive read a few times now that they are upto 200hp less and upto 17km/h slower on the straights, and montoya actually said the above in an interview. which really pisses me off, formula 1 is supposed to be just that.... the fastest it can possibly be

now there taking steps back towards champ cars!

[dezz]

word. what a stupid idea. they should allow the technology (if its used across all the teams its no different from all teams running V8's) and get quicker and quicker each year

[Roy]

word. what a stupid idea. they should allow the technology (if its used across all the teams its no different from all teams running V8's) and get quicker and quicker each year

Its a bit of a problem when there is already talk about the speed of the cars at cetain tracks and the simnple fact that certain tracks arent deemed safe by the FIA.

SO it had to happen. Was a pretty silly way of tryign to slow them down me thinks, but i dont see what the problem is with V8s, they will pull bigger revs, have a completely different sound, they dont have the torque so if a driver makes a mistake mid corner it wont be so easy to recover theoir position. It could end up improving the racing.

And for what its worth, they are already basically doing similar lap times, as the aero of the car has improved with the smaller engien allowing more freedom in this area, smaller radiators so less drag etc etc. So it eont be long until they are doing the same lap times, its just that they wont hall the mail in a straight line as well.

[wannabe]

I too am not a fan of the V8 move.

To me it fails to address the properly the safety issues that it was introduced to solve. For sure the cars will be slower in a straight line (well for a while anyway) but now with lighter engines they will have better weight distribution, lower centres of gravity which means...

Increased cornering speed.

Which if i am correctly understanding Mr Mosley, is the biggest safety concern.

Hopefully the smaller engines add a little racing spirit to the GP racing season!

[Silver-Arrowz]

Teams have the option to still run a last year spec V10 at reduced revs. The pick up better from low revs, but I'm sure as the teams progress though out the season the V8's will rev harder to produce more speed than a V10 with reduced revs. Don't forget, they can run a V10 this year, but next year they'll be a year behind in a V8 engine development.

The end result is a croc of sh*t from Mister Mosley. Cost savings in F1, my butt! The switch to a V8 means teams had to spend a lot more money developing the new engines. It was never as simple as the FIA said (chopping 2 cylinders off and tada!) because V8's aren't as balanced as V10's.

I can understand why Michelin's leaving now. Too much politics, not enough racing.

[ctjet]

they are racing in V8's because the FIA said that F1 cars were getting too fast and becoming a danger not only to the spectators but to the drivers aswell...

drivers necks couldn't stand the G forces that the cars were doing around corners and under braking.

So the best they could come up with to slow the cars down was thro engine capacity and size

[dezz]

thats all well and good, but the sound of a V10 screaming past you at the melb GP is something I loved. im sure the V8's will sound insane as well...but they wont sound like the V10's

[Frink]

no one seems to like change to the V8 engines. i agree also. but like with most things associated with F1, they'll make further developments and find more and more power.....

[ctjet]

i got a two sound bytes of a V10 fly by then a V8 flyby and they do sound similar but u can pick one from the other... i'd post it up but i dont no how

V10 flyby still gets me slightly wet every time i hear it