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F3 Euroseries 5 & 6 - Norisring
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...and jules bianchi took another win in the first race too. second was sims, third was coletti. gutierrez was 4th, which is an improvement on the rest of his season so far. tandy did well in qualifying but finished 20 out of 21 - does anyone know what happened there?
autosport says hartley ran into the back of bottas - if that's true it's interesting to see he's still making the same sort of mistakes he made in bf3 last year. |
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...and coletti's been excluded from the rest of the meeting for hitting bianchi after the podium. i'm sure bianchi was being very catty but crikey...
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It is really too bad that Premiere, the soon to be Sky Germany, does not show F3 live anymore
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nope, apparently not - italiaracing has a bit more of an in-depth explanation which obviously could be nonsense or it could be right. apparently it has something to do with the masters and bianchi losing pole; bianchi called coletti names (i believe he was questioning his mothers profession..) which wound coletti up enough to smack him with his handbag.
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Indeed, his year so far in both F3 and WSbR isn't living up to expectations, he has shown little class. Alguersuari deserves the Red Bull F1 reserve driver role more if you look at his results in the last 18 months. He has done a much better job than Hartley! Note that Jean Karl Vernay and Stefano Coletti (former Red Bull Juniors) are both in the top 6 of the championship, current Red Bull drivers Maki and Hartley are on the fringes of the top 10...
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Yeah but at least Maki is showing some fire, witness race 2 yesterday. Pity about the penalty, he deserved better.
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Jaime mentioned something about focus and F1, now Brendon has F3, WSbR and F1 reserve driver. F1 reserve driver means simply a free trip to GP weekends with Paddock access. So you're wasting 17 weeks from your schedule. Btw, absolutely magnificent debut for Tandy considering how slow was this car!
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30 Jun 2009, 00:34 (Ref:2493627) | #11 | |
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Personally I think Hartley was unlucky all weekend. Hit from behind by his own (Useless) team-mate in Quali, admittedly responsible for what happened in Race 1, but then hit from behind again in Race 2, forced to complete the rest of the race with suspension damage.
It's hardly fair to call him disappointing when the bulk of his weekend was ruined by others. |
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Actually I think his whole year is disappointing, both in RWS and Euro F3. Agreed, not everything is his fault but then again have you seen anything from him this year that made you say wow? I don't necessaraly judge by the points table, I said wow for Vernay that drove with half of his diffuser hanging off, the same for Maki (who generally has a nightmare year) who was mega in the last few laps of race 2.
By the way, how can Gutierrez and Bottas crash with each other under yellow flags (Bird - Sims incident) and get away with it?! |
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Can anyone explain the ART rear wing?! I usualy dont watch F3, but it caught my eye on Autosport.com.
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What about the rear wing?
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art ran without the top half of it from halfway up the endplates onwards in a few sessions - i think gutierrez and tambay and bottas (can't find pictures of bianchi's car rn) had it like that for race 2, and bianchi for the free practice session at least. the norisring is a high speed track, albeit a little one, and there's not really any corners apart from hairpins and a couple of giant chicanes avoiding 70 year old bits of building! other teams seem to have tried leaving out the wing element completely, but have used the normal full length endplates.
sorry, that's a really poor female explanation here's a picture on autosport.com - http://www.autosport.com/gallery/photo.php/id/1311825 edit - i've edited this about 100 times already adding other people running the non-wing - prema ran coletti with the half-endplate as well at some point. also there's a picture of bianchi running without the adjustable bits of the front wing as well. this is very interesting... |
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Oh yeah see what you mean, just been looking at several pictures. It looks like one of those really low down force configuration rear wings (like they use in GP2 at Monza). It isn't just on the ART cars either, just noticed Atte Mustonen and Johnny Cecotto had them too. From what I can see it looks like all the ART cars had them on during race 2.
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also worth a look is signature's modifications in the pictures of mika maki's car. the only team to run with the full minimum front and rear wing setup seems to have been art - everyone else who ran without the rear wing seems to have opted to keep the adjustable bits of the front wing in place (technical there again bella, well done ).
the extra bits of vertical bodywork around the mucke team's wingmirrors is an interesting addition too. (can you tell i just spent a full hour at least looking at pictures of the cars? dear god, i need a life...) this is why i think f3 is excellent - outside of f1 its really the only place where you get sideways thinking. it's a shame sideways thinking is always expensive though |
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Those vertical bits of Mucke that you mention are the default 09 Dallara parts, right? It's just that almost everybody in the Euroseries has removed them.
Also teams tend to do away with the flickups in front of the rear wheels, especially in low downforce tracks. The monoplane rear wing has been run for many years by Italian teams in Monza, I remember seeing it for the first time in 1992 but it could be even older than that. Other interesting mods are in Signature cars: a horizontal fin near the mirrors, the vertical fin on the engine cover (this has been run for quite a while). and in HiTech cars: complete front wing - under the nose arrangement dubbed "the tunnel" Also many teams have a refined aero treatment in the airbox area and near the exhausts. So bella there are more people that need to get a life obviously |
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i don't know, this is where i'm slightly out of date. they look pretty nasty on a f3 car, it shouldn't *ever* aspire to look like a world series car that tried to look like a f1 car.
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Would anybody know the approximate tire pressures in F3 Euroseries? I bought a used set of the Kumho spec tires from Mücke Motorsport to try them on my FRenault which is only a trackday car now.
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