Hey, you're all looking at this the wrong way. If the Lotus/Virgin competition continues as it is at the moment we get to see Branson make a fool of himself in one of his air hostess' uniforms. That'll be worth a laugh. :D
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Hey, you're all looking at this the wrong way. If the Lotus/Virgin competition continues as it is at the moment we get to see Branson make a fool of himself in one of his air hostess' uniforms. That'll be worth a laugh. :D
Just think, Lotus may have done more laps in one day with their car then Virgin has in all the days they have done so far, but the Virgin car is just as quick as the Lotus...
The Virgin is clearly experiencing technical drama's hence the very low lap count so far, but their car I think is faster if they can ever get on top of those dramas.
It's gonna be an interesting battle between them though! Reminds me of the Minardi vs Jordan battles from a few years back! The rest of the world couldn't care less about them but for the boys in black and yellow, their was nothing more serious in the world then beating each other and therefore not being last!
Virgin had hydraulics problem which compromised their session yesterday.Quote:
Originally Posted by truefan72
Fauzy needs his 300km superlicence.
Lotus and Williams were doing systems check in the wet. Lotus because its straight out of the box, Williams ran with new internals - as alluded to earlier in the thread that the package around the engine is somewhat flawed.
This sort of valuable data is more effective in the dry.Quote:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81560
Really we had no issues at all with the car and we now need to start working on performance and see how quick it is.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81562
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81561
so kovy crashes and Lotus don't have a spare front wing either???
It would have made sense to ship the spare one before testing begun, just in case,you know, a driver has an off in tricky wet conditions, or something, so you won't be handicapped for the rest of the day waiting for the new wing to arrive at 2am the next morning.
:|
perhaps next year they can run testing in Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, or anywhere that is not likely to have poor or cold weather in Early February.
Nice video. The rain was pouring down fairly badly indeed.
lolQuote:
Originally Posted by henners88
seems like a joined a bunch of other sneaky folks back there.
good video, thanks
That sounds sensible, so won't happen. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by truefan72
Or you could not bother testing till you had spare parts to take with you.Quote:
Originally Posted by truefan72
Jeez, give them a break. The new teams are hardly Sauber or Williams let alone Ferrari or McLaren who should know better
They probably should have made sure they had at least one spare though, especially after seeing what happened to Virgin the other day.Quote:
Originally Posted by wedge