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Here’s today’s round-up:
Links
Fernando Alonso’s Ferrari California (Twitpic)
Snapped at the Canadian Grand Prix by Virgin reserve driver Luiz Razia.
“I am informed the issue will ‘be discussed by engineers in small huddles’ in Valencia as they plan how and when to deploy similar ‘media’ days?óÔé¼?ª”
Ferrari ‘F10b’ picture (F1 Around)
Shot of the updated Ferrari with its RB6-style exhaust.
Why people should give Schumacher a break (Autosport – subscription required)
As I wrote here last week, Tony Dodgins believes Michael Schumacher’s race at Montreal wasn’t as bad as was widely reported.
F1 fans are invited to join in a panel on the sport in London next month.
In My Own Words #1, A Blog by Alexander Rossi
“I’ve now driven Skip Barber National, Formula Renault 2.0, Formula Atlantic, Formula BMW, Radical, Formula Renault, F3, GP3, Renault World Series, GP2 Asia, GP2 Main (different than Asia) and F1 – and I can say that I’m still on the right side of 18.”
The development race (Renault)
Renault technical director James Allison: “Obviously CFD and the wind tunnel are incredibly useful for predicting how our aero packages will work at the track. These tools predict the size of the gains that eventually unfold at the track within errors that are substantially less than 0.5% of the total downforce on the car. For the mechanical parts we rely on computer simulations, which we then validate on our chassis rig. We also have a suite of endurance rigs that can subject components to loads and forces to make sure they can cope with the F1 environment. These tools allow us to turn up at the track confident in the knowledge that our latest parts are reliable and will perform as we expect.”
Comment of the day
Qwerty_uk has a radical plan for changing the Valencia circuit layout:
I know this would require some serious demolition and infrastructure work. But I think this layout might just work:
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3826060
Qwerty_uk
From the forum
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On this day in F1
Keke Rosberg won the United States Grand Prix at Detroit on this day 25 years ago. It was an especially happy week for the 1982 champion as soon Nico was born just four days later.
Keke narrates the race in the video below in which several drivers hit the wall and Martin Brundle collides with Philippe Alliot while lapping the RAM driver:
macahan (@macahan)
23rd June 2010, 1:32
Drats on the Meeting. I don’t get to UK until Jul 7th. Bummer. Would be fun to go ohh well will have to wait for the race ;)
Ferrari interesting but expected and previously reported, wonder if they got pull rod suspension as well on that car.
Mike-e
23rd June 2010, 2:07
that valencia track looks much better than the actual one!
graigchq
23rd June 2010, 8:37
isn’t that just the circuit Gilles Villeneuve but rotated and placed in Valencia? hehe
BasCB
23rd June 2010, 9:51
yes it is, would be an improvement, wouldn’t it?
Fer no.65
23rd June 2010, 2:32
LOL! the twitter from that Virgin reserve driver also shows Kobayashi’s car !
MY GOD: http://twitpic.com/1yzucd
Mouse_Nightshirt (@mouse_nightshirt)
23rd June 2010, 3:10
That’s worse than my car was this morning… (I washed it this afternoon!)
GeeMac
23rd June 2010, 5:51
He needs a bumper sticker that says: “My other car is a Ferrari… sort of.”
sato113 (@sato113)
23rd June 2010, 11:14
looks like de la rosa’s got a nice bmw at least.
KNF
23rd June 2010, 4:19
Does this mean that Nico Rosberg will have to celebrate his birthday at Valenica on race day itself? Not exactly the most inspiring of places to do so…
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
23rd June 2010, 9:44
Yep that’s right.
BasCB
23rd June 2010, 9:52
I think he was pretty happy the last time he had his birthday on track.
wasiF1
23rd June 2010, 5:19
Nice work from Qwerty_uk. It looks familiar with the Canadian GP track but still it will provide some good racing.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
23rd June 2010, 9:44
That’s the joke, by the way!
Scalextric (@scalextric)
23rd June 2010, 6:05
Nice to hear the absolute joy and excitement in Keke’s voice. (Compared with Mika H., that is).
BasCB
23rd June 2010, 9:53
Interesting, how much he knows about the race. I like his commenting on Mansell going off track almost each lap.
geo132 (@geo132)
23rd June 2010, 6:51
Alonso’s Ferrari by chandhok too!
http://twitpic.com/1vb7y4
US_Peter (@us_peter)
23rd June 2010, 7:23
…and Chandhok’s own car. In the background you can see someone got stuck with a PT Loser/Snoozer. Wonder who that was.
US_Peter (@us_peter)
23rd June 2010, 7:23
Whoops. Here’s the link: http://twitpic.com/1vclwh
BasCB
23rd June 2010, 9:54
Thats a lot better than what Kobayashi is stuck with!
Macca (@macca)
23rd June 2010, 7:23
I know how to fix the Valencia Street Circuit, instead of turning left at turn 3, turn right…out of the country.
glue (@glue)
23rd June 2010, 8:27
is that an F10b being tested at Mugello?
BasCB
23rd June 2010, 9:55
Test / media day at Fiorano.
Alexf1man
23rd June 2010, 9:14
Nice one qwerty_uk – Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Valencia :)
Jackie
23rd June 2010, 11:02
and also a nice pic of JB aswell !!
http://twitpic.com/1z1gjp
TommyB (@tommyb89)
23rd June 2010, 13:03
Successful English sportsmen have been giving advice to our useless, overpaid, idiotic footballers.
Jenson and Lewis appear in this video: http://bit.ly/d4NsFB
BasCB
23rd June 2010, 20:40
Well it seems to have worked for England!
Jose Arellano
23rd June 2010, 17:43
pretty cool blog by alexander rossi
BasCB
23rd June 2010, 20:42
The very interesting piece about Renault shows how hard it is to really stop spending horrific amounts of money. Windtunnels, CFD etc. How many engineers do they have working on those continuous updates!
BasCB
23rd June 2010, 21:11
Might BMW go into WRC with the Mini brand? It would be an exiting idea to have Mini’s challenging Citroen and Ford there! Much better than having giant Toyota.
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/dont-hold-your-breath-for-toyota-in-the-wrc/