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There are so many of you looking at the live feed it's crashed our server! Can I ask you refrain from using it till its fixed? We tried!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AndyL
http://twitter.com/ClaireVWilliamsQuote:
There are so many of you looking at the live feed it's crashed our server! Can I ask you refrain from using it till its fixed? We tried!
The sites I've been using, apart from Twitter, are:
http://live.autosport.com/commentary.php/id/175
http://directo.thef1.es/tests/ (Spanish language but seems to update quicker than Autosport)
A mountain to climb for Virgin, nearly 10 seconds off the pace and unable to do any more running today because of a lack of spare parts.
And this with some experienced personnel in their team. Kinda puts into perspective just how difficult F1 is (and should be). Still, at least they're out there testing :up:
(Edit: Alonso's 6/10ths appear to have been lost in transit today now that Ferrari are actually doing some longish runs :p )
Great to see the Virgin running, although they've only completed a handfull of laps. Given that they're a brand new team I guess these kind of setbacks are to be expected. It's certainly a very steep learning curve for them.
the excercise for Virgin seems to be largely an extended shakedown session.
I really hope their lack of pace is due to them not doing any serious attempts at setting a lap time and not a result of the aerodynamics not working in the real world as well as it does on computer... Newey said a car designed 100% on CFD won't work and you can only create a concept on CFD but the actual design has to be developed in the wind tunnel... looks like he might be right
Their aerodynamics definitely stopped working when Timo's front wing fell off ;)
And apparently they don't have the necessary spare parts so no more running for them today. Which will be unfortunate for them if it rains for the rest of the test.
Very early days though, I'm sure they will make substantial improvements and be closer to the pace on 12 March.
Glock had front wing failure
Hasn't he already been proved wrong, in the case of the ALMS Acura at least.Quote:
Originally Posted by RJL25
In any case, it's very early days for the VR-01 and this is what testing is for.
Indeed...the Acura LMS proves Newey wrong. But maybe he feels an F1 car cannot be done that way.
Virgin will be fine - that's why F1 has testing and for a brand new team I applaud them for being there, unlike the other 3!
Eh? I managed 19000 miles on a set of fronts just recently. Mind you, they are Michelin! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88