Naujienos, gandai...

Amid rumours that Red Bull will race with Honda engines in 2019, the company has dispatched their Red Bull Technology department to work with Honda. For the 2018 season, the Japanese marquee will supply engines exclusively to the Red Bull junior team Toro Rosso. Red Bull Racing consultant Dr. Helmut Marko said that Red Bull Technology is lending a hand.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/sauber-alfa-romeo-reveals-livery-985172/ - Sauber Alfa Romeo pristatė išdažymo koncepciją 2018 metams.

http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/11108517/f1-2018-charles-leclerc-and-marcus-ericsson-confirmed-at-sauber - Leclerc ir Ericsson kitais metais už Alfa Romeo Sauber vairų.

In Malasia, Wehrlein got a tyre temp tip from Mercedes he kept for himself (he was more than 0.3s faster that day). It was discovered by the Sauber engineers what he did (he didn't drive to their prescribed temps) and the race after Ericsson drove with the same qualy temps (lower than normal for Sauber) and outgunned Pascal as it was a fast corner circuit (Suzuka). It didn't win Pascal any friends to keep performance info that could be good for the team to himself.

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kreivas vertimas, bet gana idomiai apraso situacija tarp McLaren is Hondos. kaip jau ir kitur buvo rasyta - po pirmu testu siais metais McLaren tik ieskojo budo nutraukti sutarti, nes pasitikejimo nebeliko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tWMgNdqe

Nerodo.

Wherlainas teisingai dare .. nes komanda palaiko eriksona vienaip ar kitaip del bapkiu .. o laimedamas taskus nors biski i save demesi atkreipe

Kaip supratau, Werleinas pats ora pute i padangas?

jo, pats pute. gerai, kad igavo patirties - gales pusti ir toliau dabar.

Shinu> Force India jo irgi "nepalaike" ir pasieme Ocon'a - problema komandose? Ericssonas siaip nebuvo labai uz Wehleina letesnis, nors pastarasis tokia ateities ikona turejo nevykusi pinigu maisa uzdominuoti

Uz geruma ir "komandine dvasia" jo vistiek komandoj nebutu palike. Del dominavimo tai dominavo kada reikejo poto visas sauberis smuko. Okonas matos koks geras fruktas irgi

Sauberis antroje sezono puseje smarkiai gerino aero dali ir artejo prie Haas ir kitu. Smuko mat jam. Wehrleinas dabar gales toliau dominuoti "kada reikia", o kai nereikia - pvz kitamet - lenktyniaus kiti

Kas is to kad gerino? Paziurek kokios vidutines pozicijos iki austrijos ir po .. ir kiek dnf po austrijos gerintojai didieji. Ne nuo has atsilikima ziurek o lyderiu.. monishai wehrleinas labiau lipo nei eriksonas ir salygas sudare taskus rinkt .. buvo praspirta.. taipat kaip supadangom gandai.. sukas gandai kad upgradus eriksonas pirmas gaudavo ir monisha buvo pries akcininkus palaikydama wehreina vietoj eriksono.

On Wednesday Sauber announced that the entire share capital in the team had been sold to Swiss investment firm Longbow Finance.

Corporate disclosure regulations are tight in Switzerland so Longbow is not obliged to file publicly-availa*** financial statements or reveal the identity of its shareholders. However, there is no doubt whatsoever that it is connected to some of the world’s wealthiest businessmen and Sauber’s Swedish driver Marcus Ericsson is in the middle of the action.

Until 2010 Ericsson personally owned 60% of a UK company called M E Promotions limited which he was on the board of along with his father Thomas and fellow Swede Karl-Johan Persson, the CEO of clothing chain H&M . Persson is worth $2.3 billion according to Forbes so alone has more than enough resources to fund Ericsson’s career.

"Kubica wanted to make changes to the car but the team insisted on keeping it as it was on the day. For Wednesday they made the changes he requested – and it’s felt that Sergey Sirotkin benefitted from these changes when he made his long runs in the morning. One of these runs averaged out slightly quicker than Kubica’s. But how much of that came from the set-up changes? Though Kubica had averaged quicker than Massa, Sirotkin averaged quicker than both. Was that just more favoura*** circumstances or real?"

Tai Roberta gal reiktu nustatymu inzinierium priimti dirbti i komanda? Butu naudingas.

Joe Saward nuomone Alfa Romeo i Sauberi atnesa tik apie 5M euro ir butent paramos dalis leme, kad komandoje liko marcus ericsson

+ tai politinis zaidimas dar rimciau isideti sauberi i savo kisene balsavimo atvejams

YZF, o tai kaip Kubica suteiks grižtamaji ryši, jei jis nevairuos bolido ir nežinos kaip jis realiai elgiasi? Norėjai parodyti savo šmaikštumą, bet kažkaip nepavyko...

Prozax> pasitaisau, Kubicai reiktu 'test-piloto' vietos, gales sukti ratus kaip koks Badoeris, ir dalinti patarimus pagrindiniams pilotams, kurie jais pasinaudoje, gales pasiekti geresniu rezultatu.

VR per radiją palygino: “Verstappen is like Zarco. Neither one of them ever brakes. You have to move to the side with him, because the danger is that both of you will end up going out.”

Daug idomios Pirelli infografikos:

https://www.grandprix247.com/2017/12/05/ricciardo-overtaking-master-in-a-season-of-less-***s/

Honda has confirmed that it is to implement a revised technical structure, with Yusuke Hasegawa moving to a new position within the company, and Toyoharu Tanabe installed as its F1 chief.

https://twitter.com/F1/status/939210973054844928
"More than 4 million spectators attended #F1 races in 2017 - an 8% increase on 2016"

Apparently mediaset in Italy reported today that Kubica is off the Williams shortlist, it's now between Sirotkin and... Massa.

:D

Tai ką, trečią kartą atsisveikinsim? :D

Wiliams dar su vienu f2 driveriu pradejo tartis

AF1> nesnekek nesamoniu, Kubica jau turi kontrakta 99% patvirtina. Pats rasei. Laukiam debiuto.

Sekantis komedijos etapas: Williams' decision might be taken after preseason tests after evaluating all the drivers on their radar.

O, ziu, pradejo suprast, kad su corporate attitude ne viskas taip jau rozem klota:

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff says Formula 1 misses “the odd hand grenade flying through the paddock” in reference to Bernie Ecclestone's management style in the sport before Liberty Media’s takeover.

Kai kalba eina apie Liberty kritika nesunku atspeti, kas kalba - yra trys asmenys is dvieju didziausia politine itaka (bei finansines ismokas) turinciu komandu - Sergio, Niki ir Toto. Panasu, kad vyrus tikrai neramina prarandamos politines pozicijos bei busimi finansiniai istoriniu ismoku praradimai.

Likusioji dalis, bent jau kiek tenka skaityti, viska ivardina kaip "positive changes". Ta pati sako ir visi Sawardai ir co.

Backed by SMP, a Russian financial institution owned by oligarchs Boris and Arkady Rotenberg, Sirotkin is apparently offering Williams $15 million in sponsorship, according to Le Journal de Montreal.


Putlerio sparingu draugeliai finansuoja Sirotkina. Tik kad jie biski sankciju sarasuose, jei neklystu.

Kelios Kaledines dovanos.

Motorsport.com F1 Top10. Argumentacija ilga ir logiska, bet perdaug, kad cia pastinciau.
1. Hamilton
2. Verstappen
3. Alonso
4. Vettel
5. Ricciardo
6. Bottas
7. Hulkenberg
8. Sainz
9. Ocon
10. Perez

A.Prosto svajose Alonsa iveikes Vandoorne nepateko. Sad.

The design flaws that killed McLaren-Honda

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The hum*** oil tank seems such an innocuous component amid the extraordinary complexity of V6 Formula 1 engines and their hybrid parts. With all the millions of dollars invested in trying to make a success of a works grand prix operation, combined with the expertise of two mighty racing organisations, you wouldn't expect something so basic to be the root cause of calamity.
But that's exactly what happened in 2017. The unfeted oil tank is the chief reason why the McLaren-Honda alliance is no more, dissolved in a poisonous concoction of broken promises and shattered dreams.
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"Go back to 2015, our MGU-H energy-recovery level was very low," says Hasegawa. "It was because of the limited turbine package size. In 2016 we modified the turbine to make it much bigger. Because of that we needed to make the turbine position much higher.
"With doing that, I think the recovery level was very competitive - almost the same level as the top team. But because of that we were thinking the centre of gravity was one of the big issues for us - especially in Suzuka I noticed that momentum of the car was very bad.
"Of course we identified that issue from the beginning of the season, so we understood we needed to change the turbine position to much lower, but to do that we had to make the turbine/compressor split and make it a completely different package.
"The connecting-rod length is [now] much longer for the turbine. We didn't create a problem with that connecting rod but, because of the turbine coming out of the engine, the oil-tank configuration was very different. We needed to create an oil-tank configuration that avoided the turbine package."
Switching from a conventional oil tank to what Hasegawa describes as a "crescent shape" created a whole host of unforeseen disastrous consequences for Honda.
"The previous oil tank was just straight, but this year's oil tank was a different shape," Hasegawa adds. "Of course, we tested that oil-tank shape on the dyno, but this is one of the most difficult items to check. We found an issue in the first Barcelona test. It was not a fundamental issue, but it hurt our testing time very much, so it was very bad.
"Of course we modified the oil tank - we updated the oil tank and the situation was solved in just two or three days. But missing two or three days is very fatal for the winter testing."

This problem set back McLaren-Honda's development programme to such an extent that it took five races before the basic package was under control, never mind bettered. On top of the oil dramas, the new Honda combustion concept was also wreaking havoc with the car - something that took months to resolve without adding extra power to last year's numbers.
"It's fair to say the starting level was almost equivalent from last year - peak power was almost equivalent, but low- rpm power was very down," Hasegawa concedes. "It had huge gaps from something like 9000-10,000rpm - no torque. It's OK on the dyno, but when we used upshift and went from 10,000 to 9000, torque decreased dramatically.
"It will create a big oscillation. The dyno's inertia is huge, so it doesn't create a big problem, but the inertia of the car itself is much less. Such a big torque drop was creating a big oscillation."
This made the car extremely difficult to drive (when it was running) until Honda modified the intake system for May's Spanish Grand Prix, which helped recover the lost bottom-end power and driveability. Until then, the drivers were forced to change gear at odd points. You could hear the graunching sounds as the transmission protested the unusual upshift and clutch settings required to avoid this torque drop.
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"Other than the target performance we very much had an issue with reliability," admits Hasegawa. "We had so many issues with the oscillation, and also the MGU-H bearing. It also comes from the oil blowing from the oil tank. The oil came to the bearing of the turbine and the turbine bearing was seizing or about to seize - that was creating an issue.
"The bearing itself was not changed from last year, although the package is different, but last year we didn't have such oil blowing from the oil tank because we had a conventional design. Actually, this is just an excuse - we studied very much for every area we changed - but we didn't allow for something besides that area, like the oil-tank configuration, so we had many issues that we didn't expect from our modification.
"We had many MGU-H issues at the beginning of the season, especially in Bahrain. We had maybe three MGU-H failures on Stoffel's car. But we had nothing for that. We just applied a new MGU-H and failure. We spent four or five MGU-Hs there, because we didn't understand what was happening."
When Honda did finally understand what was going on, it modified the oil tank to stop the oil blowing, and beefed up the MGU-H bearing to make it more resilient. Things got much better after that, but McLaren still used more engine components than any other individual team this year and, when Honda missed its agreed performance target to match the estimated power output of the Mercedes customer engine in time for August's Belgian Grand Prix, the fate of McLaren-Honda was sealed.
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"The Groove-based team chose Sirotkin to pair with Lance Stroll in the upcoming F1 2018 season. The SMP Sponsorship of the russian driver made the difference
Announcement in the coming days"

By Roberto Chinchero.

Kieta komanda bus Williams, jei tai tiesa.

Nauji remejai:

Billionaire brothers Arkady and Boris Rotenberg had the incredi*** good fortune of being childhood friends of Russian President Vladimir Putin. As teenagers, they bonded with Putin over Sambo, a Russian martial art, and judo. Arkady Rotenberg has insisted that they don’t get preferential treatment from Putin, but during his tenure as Russian leader the brothers have amassed a multibillion dollar fortune in part through lucrative contracts with state and state-owned companies . In March 2014, they were placed under U.S. sanctions for providing support to, and benefiting from, “Putin’s pet projects” including “approximately $7 billion in contracts for the Sochi Olympic Games.”

AF1>>> SMP yra sankcijų sąrašuose, bent jau anksčiau buvo, bet tai netrukdo jiems remti sportininkus ir komandas įvairiuose čempionatuose.
SMP rėmė Aliošą IndyCar čempionate ir vieną dieną tas pinigų srautas nutrūko. Jokių garantijų, kad taip nenutiks ir su Sirotkinu.

Jau 2014 metai Sirotkinas turėjo būti Sauber, bet žadėtas kiekis pinigų nepasirodė. Dabar irgi pinigai pažadėti, bet ar kranelis bus atsuktas?

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/108789/sirotkin-set-to-race-with-sauber-in-2014

O tai tolimesnio cirko su bandymais nebus? 25 metu amziaus jau nebereikia? Ne komanda, o nesamoniu muziejus

is Z.Browno interviu (kartu ir apie ta prasta corporate pasauli, kuriuo skundziasi Toto):
- First signs of problems before test days, data were not promising
- at test days they knew that the problems are fundamental, no quick fix
- they started talks what to do: sabbatical, new engine partner,...
- after Canada they new that they will split
- GPS data shows 90% how fast you are, how much you loose on the straights,...
- last 10% you only see on track how aero would behave with a faster PU
- RBR is the measurement next year
- echo of ALO in Indy is not reapeata*** with stuff like Le Mans, Indy was special
- McLaren support Liberty 100%
- you can have best drivers and cars also with 150M budget, 400M not necessary
- McLaren could move employees to others series or projects, no big problem to shrink
- sponsors were one reason to split with Honda
- VAN was very close to ALO in second half of the season, sometimes even quicker