Skaife's car testing today

billybanana · 28 Feb 2005, 11:08 (Ref:1237927)

HRT amongst others were testing at Phillip Island today. Skaife was running a plain red front bar instead of the Mobil, HSV, Biante job on the launch car.

Some form of protest at HSV doing the Kelly thing or he's just run off and destroyed the real one ?

Wrighty05 · 28 Feb 2005, 11:15 (Ref:1237940)

I'd say they haven't got the new spoilers done up yet? Are the VZ ones different in any way?

twig · 28 Feb 2005, 11:15 (Ref:1237941)

Ah, i doubt it was a protest...i don't think he would get that much attention on a private test day - especially if the car was still running with Mobil 1 signage elsewhere on the car.

If you look closer, it is a VY as well. The livery is of last years on the bonnet - whilst the front VY bumper hasn't been painted yet.

billybanana · 28 Feb 2005, 11:26 (Ref:1237952)

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Originally Posted by twig

If you look closer, it is a VY as well.

So it is. I didn't look that closely. Toddler was running the VZ though.

hrt_rulz01 · 28 Feb 2005, 20:05 (Ref:1238324)

i was reading up on holden motorsport.com and it said that toddler would be testing his new car on monday (yesterday) so that is clear. but why skaifey is driving his older car is beyond me. its probably something really simple....

HRT #1 · 28 Feb 2005, 23:00 (Ref:1238484)

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Originally Posted by billybanana

So it is. I didn't look that closely.

You must be blind if you can't tell the difference between the VY and the VZ.

Lowndesfan6 · 28 Feb 2005, 23:29 (Ref:1238509)

I was about to post that it's a VY, luck I read the other posts. Pretty easy to tell.
Glad someone picked it up early.

HRT RULZ - the car Skaifey tested would be one of the new cars just with the VY front. I believe the older cars got handed down to KRT.

HRT433 · 1 Mar 2005, 01:33 (Ref:1238566)

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Originally Posted by Lowndesfan6

I was about to post that it's a VY, luck I read the other posts. Pretty easy to tell.
Glad someone picked it up early.

HRT RULZ - the car Skaifey tested would be one of the new cars just with the VY front. I believe the older cars got handed down to KRT.

that they did, and from the pic that was posted in another thread, they haven't even bothered to repaint them

billybanana · 1 Mar 2005, 01:42 (Ref:1238572)

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Originally Posted by HRT #1

You must be blind if you can't tell the difference between the VY and the VZ.

Ok so I feel like a goose......especially as I drive a VYSS...I should know what it looks like.

Dipper · 1 Mar 2005, 04:41 (Ref:1238640)

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Originally Posted by HRT #1

You must be blind if you can't tell the difference between the VY and the VZ.

The only diffirence i see between VY and VZ is that VZ is even uglier than the VY. On the road they have gone from ugly to uglier

The Hrt Kid · 1 Mar 2005, 07:49 (Ref:1238705)

Both were driving VZ's, interesting that courtney and richards were both testing too. Both only got 10 laps but courtney was almost half a second quicker than richards. That above pic must of been another spoiler.

mmciau · 1 Mar 2005, 09:06 (Ref:1238759)

And why in your right mind would you run your new 05 car at the AGP meeting - good chance it would get torpedoed in a non points event!

Mike

The Hrt Kid · 1 Mar 2005, 09:17 (Ref:1238773)

yeah seems strange, seton did damaged one a couple of years back at the agp when it rained, 2 weeks later he was a victim of the turn 8 at adelaide.

Rob 18 · 1 Mar 2005, 09:27 (Ref:1238785)

& Seton will be debuting a brand new & untested #18 DJR Ford this weekend also..

Joe5619 · 1 Mar 2005, 09:40 (Ref:1238794)

It is riskie to run a brand new car at the AGP, but with so little test days, teams have very little choose these days but to run the best stuff!!

hrt_rulz01 · 1 Mar 2005, 20:35 (Ref:1239371)

http://www.hrt.com.au/racing/index.a...lip_island.asp

heres the official test info. from the pictures there, it seems that skaifey must have had an off OR james courtney was driving too so he probably drove skaifeys car and had an off. one or the other!

Joe5619 · 1 Mar 2005, 21:36 (Ref:1239426)

That test information is great!!! I wish all teams did sometime like that.

hrt_rulz01 · 1 Mar 2005, 22:47 (Ref:1239502)

yeah it is great! it always gives a good insight into what the teams are doing!

Vee8 · 2 Mar 2005, 05:42 (Ref:1239692)

My spy tells me that HRT started the test with the Skaife car in VY configuration (unstickered red splitter) to do some back-to-back aero testing against Todd's car with the VZ package. Skaife's car was swapped to VZ around lunchtime - bonnet, headlights and splitter replaced - to complete the afternoon session.

Spy says the team didn't find any real difference from VY to VZ - as you'd expect.

hrt_rulz01 · 2 Mar 2005, 06:05 (Ref:1239697)

that could be it! not that hrt would have much choice as to which they would prefer.

peckstar · 2 Mar 2005, 09:54 (Ref:1239844)

can they do that, wouldnt that be testing 3 cars? thus causing restriction on future testing

otherwise FPR could rock up at 6 test to lunch, then britek could test from 12 to 6pm

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