Naujienos, gandai...

Pirelli has restructured its Formula 1 operations and racing department, with motorsport chief Paul Hembery moving to a new role in the company's Latin American operations.

Hembery helped guide Pirelli's return to F1 in 2011, but from March 15 he will take up a new role as CEO of Pirelli LatAm.

He will, however, maintain overall supervision of motorsport activities and will attend some grands prix this year.

The change in jobs for Hembery has required a restructuring elsewhere, with racing manager Mario Isola taking on a new role as head of car racing.

McLaren confirms another engine change for Honda after electrical issue found on Vandoorne's car

Red Bull boss Christian Horner wants Formula 1 teams to get together to discuss ditching the shark fins from Formula 1's 2017 designs, amid growing criticism that they have ruined the look of the cars.

Horneris zaidzia. Is pradziu tarsi 'apropos' apie Shark fins buvo uzsimines. Pamate, kad nereaguoja niekas, dabar imasi kalbu, jog jie kenkia estetikai ir t.t.

Realybe paprasta - RBR aero be sharkfinu geresne uz kitus.

Yep. Nepamenu dabar, ar ne iš jo buvo ir kalba dėl T konstrukcijos tos. Tipo atitrūkusi detalė gali būti pavojinga. Klausimas: kaip ji gali nukrist be kontakto, jei ji pačiam viršuj montuojama, t. y. ant variklio dangčio.

taip pat kaip veidrodeliai nukrenta be kontakto ar galiniai sparnai luzta.. o ten 5cm struktura..

Horneris shark fin neuzdraus - reikalingas visu komandu sutarimas - tai gali PR'inti tiek, kiek nori. FIA irgi neturi svertu uzdrausti.

biski dauzo Horneri: Of course being the philanthropic chap that he is, Christian does not of course believe these appendages add little to the Newey designed aero package but removed from others may improve Red Bull’s advantage. Further, to increase the spectacle of F1 winter testing for the fans interest in testing – Red Bull unilaterally chose not to put screens around the RB13 when it came into the pits.

"I read some comments on Autosport, and, a bit like Trump 'Fake News', some comments about Turns 1/2/3," he says. "But it is not only chassis. Remember these engines are hybrid, which means very early back on throttle you have electrical power, which is [like an] on/off [switch], and then you have a turbo as well at the back. So, depending on your driveability, there could be some issues.

"We had some driveability issues, which means when you are back on the power you lose the back of the car, so the car looks nervous, but there is [actually] nothing wrong but the driveability issue.

The biggest change comes in how the paddle on the steering wheel now controls the clutch, because there now has to be a linear torque control.

Previously it was possi*** for an engineer to map the settings in a way that most of the movement on the steering wheel paddle would be in the 'sweet spot' of the clutch, meaning the starts remained straightforward for drivers.

Kevin Magnussen explained: "You just had to release it between 10% and 80%.

"Somewhere in there was a flat map that would be set to the grip, the tyres and fuel loads.

"So the start was 100% up to the engineers before. But now it is completely down to us."

Shots fired: "It has no reliability and there is no power"
Fernando Alonso demands "immediate" response to cure McLaren-Honda's winter woes

manau tuoj is pensijos greit grys dar vienas - Jensonas :D kazkaip netikiu,kad Alonso istvers iki sezono pabaigos

Reiketu perskaityti interviu, o ne antrastes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B628Stk8K5Y

O del sankabos - puiki naujiena.

Kaip ir GP2 engine namu GP, sitas interviu yra savalaikis ir suplanuotas pranesimas Hondai. McLaren argumentu neturi, o Alonso turi. Jensonas yra niekam neidomus - Honda norejo Alonso ir gali greitai jo netekti. Netekus top zvaigzdes beliks pasitraukti is varikliu tiekimo.

FI techninis direktorius mano, kad su siu metu soft padangomis galima nuvaziuoti visa lenktyniu distancija, tad greiciausiai vaizdas bus "dull"

"The Ferrari looks the fastest. The car is like a board. Our Mercedes is a little tighter in the
corners. "
Niki Lauda and Toto Wolff see Ferrari right now as a serious opponent. "They're going through
their test program as we've done in recent years."
Lauda summed it up: "Ferrari is on top of my list." And Red Bull: "So far, they are not the big
surprise. "

What does Ferrari have in the floor?
You also notice the respect for Ferrari that Mercedes and Red Bull are suddenly thinking about
technical details on the red challenger. All of a
sudden, the front of the cooler inhaling the new side box rule is no longer a playful idea of ​​an
aerodynamic, but a good idea.
And suddenly, Mercedes and Red Bull want to find out what is behind the canal, which runs from the
cooling inlets across the floor to the fairing in
the exhaust area.

Hydraulic lines are used to connect the pump and the transmission control. That would be legal.
However, it is also assumed that the underbody bends in the region. That would be forbidden.

Softs can do race distance around Barcelona (FI technical director Green in AskCrofty).


Super softs and ultras are not that much quicker than softs. This could be single tyre (softs) season.

Kažkaip prieštarauja mūsų nuomonei, jog skirtumas tas US ir S yra 1sek. Taip pat reikia įvertinti aukštesnes gegužės temperatūras. Žodžiu, abejoju. :D

For Australia we’ll have a different evolution, so from that point of view there’s still hope to gain some power and reliability with the final version. But last week’s spec didn’t deliver the results expected and this week’s spec is also going bellow expectations. For Australia we’ll have to hope for more, we have to be hopeful because the last two specs we worked with didn’t match our expectations.

My only criticism of what Ferrari has been doing in testing is that it has spent too much time on the medium tyres. With the new wider tyres and adjusted compounds for this year, this is probably going to be about the hardest tyre we will see used in 2017, that is if we ever actually see it again.

Nuomone apie McLaren...ir sutampa su mano nuomone, kad problemos ne vien variklyje:
Eric Boullier was fairly vocal about what I said about the McLaren in Turns 1-3 during the first test (he called it "fake news" and blamed it on the engine characteristics), but I can assure you what I saw was not a power delivery problem, it was a chassis balance and driver-confidence problem. Yes, McLaren will get on top of this side of things quicker than Honda will the power unit problems, but they still need addressing.

Cia yra vieno zmogaus nuomone. Jis ja sake ir jis ja gina

Vettelis Melburne noretu kovoti del podiumo.

Grosjeanas: siemet lenkti bus daug sunkiau, nes stabdome apie 30 metru veliau

Haas team boss Guenther Steiner believes Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull are already 1.5s ahead of the rest of the field.

Autosport zurnalistu plius Chandhock'o nuomone tvarka dabar tokia:
1-2. Mercedes ir Ferrari (too close to tell, kas pirmauja)
3. Red Bull
4. Williams (toli nuo Red Bull, bet siek tiek geriau, nei like)
5-8. Haas, Force India, Toro Rosso, Renault (panasaus pajegumo)
9. Sauber (toli atsilike nuo auksciau esanciu)

McLaren neimanoma ivertinti, nes komanda taip ir nepadare ne vieno ilgesnio vaziavimo.

The most amount of consecutive laps McLaren have managed during pre-season is eleven.

cherry pic (manau cia McLaren)
https://twitter.com/ScarbsTech/status/839933199836975106

parasyta, kad McLaren. bet siaip nieko gero - gi jau buvo ivertinta cia, kad McLaren bolidas yra Lada lygio.

Baig tu juokus Lada tiek negenda

ne apie gedimus kalba ejo, o apie bolido ir jo konstrukciju lygi.

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"It is aero, and we need to work on it. It won't be for Australia.
"The big teams will always have more resources to do it, and this is to be expected.
"There is no surprise that Mercedes and Ferrari and Red Bull came out better than everybody else.
"They have more resources to do more testing and that is what it is."
When asked if there was a danger that 1.5 seconds could grow as the development race takes hold, Steiner said: "It will not get smaller in my opinion.
"But maybe the gains further up you get the smaller they get, so the smaller teams can make bigger gains because they are further behind."
The midfield pack appears to be very close, with Steiner unsure of where his team stacks up.
However, he believes Williams could emerge as the best of the rest.
"I think the Williams is a little bit better than the big group, but we need a few more days to be sure, and in Australia we will find out," he said.

John Surtees CBE, the 1964 Formula 1 world champion, has passed away.
A statement from the Surtees family has confirmed the 83-year-old "passed away peacefully this afternoon" and "his wife, Jane and daughters, Leonora and Edwina were by his side

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2TfHMRgWQA

Neįtikėtinas sukibimas ir tai dar negeriausias ratas šiuose bandymuose ir tikrai negeriausias įmanomas dabar, o dar oro sąlygos neidealios. Jau vien žiūrint Botto onboard vaizdą, atrodo kad trajektorijoje taip ir matosi bėgiai, beveik jokių pašalinių judesiu rankomis, neįtikėtina ir tai dar ne pabaigai.

Beje sekant testus ir t.t., šovė tokia mintis. Austrijoje grip'as labai svarbus dalykas, ypač antrame sektoriuje, tas trečias posūkis ir sekantys du greitieji, ten sukibimo reik daug, taigi pernai metų pole laikas minutė ir beveik 8 sekundės. Esant labai geroms sąlygoms ir su ultra padangomis, kurios manau bus tame etape, su visais patobulinimais iki to etapo, kurių tikrai turės visos ekipos, galima labai, labai priartėti prie vienos minutės laiko, būtų įspūdinga, tiksliau tikriausiai bus įspūdingas rekordų sezonas.

Lauda had suggested that Bottas was now just two tenths of a second adrift of Hamilton on single lap pace, with more work needed to match him over race distances.

https://scontent.fmad3-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/l/t31.0-0/q85/p480x480/17098026_2336543006484005_4505986385195723713_o.jpg?oh=d612348f8c557f6b74f71a9f15a1335f&oe=5969891D

to buvo galima ir tiketis, kad Bottas tik su Massa ir begali grumtis. bus idomu, kas taps antruoju Mercedes pilotu 2018 :)

kreivas vertimas is ispanu, bet still:
In a week, the engines will almost be flying to Australia from Japan, so the clock runs counter. As the BRAND has known, the problem is not so much in the concept (that is also) of the internal combustion unit (ICE), ie the engine of explosion of all life, as in some of the materials chosen .Apparently, in the eagerness to realize a very light block, new alloys have been introduced in the moving parts of the motor that do not stand the stress . Honda does not let loose on the elements that fail in concrete, but it is clear that it is not the electrical problems that come from McLaren when asked after each car stop on the track.The crash plan is to change certain sensitive materials and arrive for the first appointment with an engine that can roll 60 laps in a row and with some more power. Then, little by little, to introduce improvements until arriving at the normality, back in the month of May. Then it will be seen whether or not it is another year lost for the Woking team and their drivers.

idomu kas tas "some power"? minusas +3s. ir jei tas "some" yra -0,3s, tai tiesiog apgailetina. tiesa, Alonso siandien interviu sake, kad jie vis dar nevaziuoja pilnu siu spec varikliu galingumu. bet kazkaip sunkiai tiketina, kad bent jau 2 sekundziu deficita butu imanoma kompensuot kitos specifikacijos varikliu, kuris greiciausiai yra tos pacios specifikacijos evoiucija

Youtube: "This video is no longer availa*** due to a copyright claim by Formula One Management" - so far so good.