[F1] F1 nieuwtjes topic deel 80 - Nog 3 TBA's!

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Op woensdag 19 januari 2011 18:07 schreef Googolplexian het volgende:
Als het een barcode is (was) dan is het 159121874806 volgens Google Goggles

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Op woensdag 19 januari 2011 18:26 schreef kepler het volgende:

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Nee, het was geen echte barcode

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Drivers set to get front-tyres boost

Michael Schumacher's hopes of getting tyres better suited to his driving style have been boosted by Pirelli confirming it has tweaked the design of its front tyres since last year's Abu Dhabi test.

Schumacher was one of several drivers to complain about Bridgestone's front tyre last season.

After the teams' first Pirelli test in November, he declared it too soon to make a judgement on whether the new rubber was an improvement.

Pirelli's motorsport director Paul Hembery says it has adjusted the front tyre based on feedback from that test.

"We were asked to provide a slightly stronger front tyre, which is what we've done," Hembery told AUTOSPORT in Abu Dhabi. "In the process we maybe threw the rear out of balance, which is something that was noted during the test. But we've also improved that during the remaining tests that we've done.

"We were asked to try to beef up the front tyre, to give it more a precise input when the drivers turn into the corner, to give more feel. We believe we've done that, and we've now finished the work on the rear so we'll see how we get on with a car designed around our tyres."

Hembery also confirmed that Pirelli will be testing several times during the season.

He is considering a request to run in some Friday practice sessions at grands prix if the teams feel changes are required, but the firm will also conduct its own testing programme.

"We've got no request in place [for Friday practice] because we haven't run yet," he told AUTOSPORT.

"But that's something that, if we do uncover problems as we go along - or we've maybe got the wrong positioning of a compound for the positioning we're using, we can ask them to add in a test session to give us more information. That's something we'll hold in reserve for an emergency.

"At the moment we know we're going to be in Istanbul in April, then Barcelona in May. We'll definitely be back in the Middle East again in Bahrain and Abu Dhabi at the end of the season. We couldn't get Silverstone, we're trying to go to Monza and probably Spa as well.

"So we are trying to carry on a parallel development programme. That's obviously looking more for 2012. We've got some ideas that, given more time we would have taken forward, but those now are rested and being put towards that programme."

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Op woensdag 19 januari 2011 18:45 schreef Googolplexian het volgende:

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Op woensdag 19 januari 2011 19:04 schreef kepler het volgende:

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Op woensdag 19 januari 2011 19:27 schreef kepler het volgende:

Ok klaar

Nog maar 6 weken (ongeveer) tot de eerste race

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Op woensdag 19 januari 2011 19:37 schreef ElmarO het volgende:

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En 1 februari de eerste testdag.

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Op woensdag 19 januari 2011 19:41 schreef kepler het volgende:

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Minder spannend dan een race uiteraard Tijden zeggen tegenwoordig toch niks meer

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Op woensdag 19 januari 2011 19:49 schreef ElmarO het volgende:

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Maar het speculeren is wel leuk.

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Op woensdag 19 januari 2011 19:51 schreef kepler het volgende:

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Zekers, en er dan helemaal naast zitten tijdens de eerste kwali

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Toch blijft het altijd leuk die eerste wintertests Maar echt volgen doe ik het niet echt

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Op woensdag 19 januari 2011 19:54 schreef ElmarO het volgende:

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Ik wel, is voor mij deel van de voorpret op een nieuw seizoen.

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Hamilton to debut new McLaren on February 10
^{Date 2011-01-20 By Motorsport.com/GMM}

Lewis Hamilton will be the first McLaren driver to test the 2011-specification MP4-26 next month.

The British team said Jenson Button is then scheduled to drive on day two of the second group test at Jerez, according to Reuters journalist Alan Baldwin on Twitter.

McLaren will not reveal the 2011 car until after the first pre-season test at Valencia, where test driver Gary Paffett will kick off the winter programme in a modified 2010-spec MP4-25.

2008 world champion Hamilton was at McLaren's Woking headquarters on Wednesday to drive in the simulator.

"(2011) car feels good, never know how others will be but I'm happy with where we are," the 26-year-old said on his IAmLewis4Real Twitter account.

The Sun newspaper said Hamilton, with a new personal trainer this year in Finn Antti Vierula, has returned from a training holiday in Colorado to attend a team training camp with Button.

Team boss Martin Whitmarsh revealed that, ahead of the gruelling 20-race calendar this year, Hamilton and Button were given a long period of vacation.

"I told my colleagues last year, Let's give our drivers six weeks in which I am not going to ring them -- and I don't want anyone else to ring them either," he said.

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Pirelli alters front tyres
^{by Bruce Hepburn 20 January 2011, 09:36}

Pirelli, the sole tyre supplier for the 2011 Formula One season, has changed the construction of its front tyres after recent testing.

"We were asked to provide a slightly stronger front tyre, which is what we've done," said Pirelli's motorsport director Paul Hembery on the Autosport web site. "In the process we maybe threw the rear out of balance, which is something that was noted during the test, but we've also improved that during the remaining tests that we've done. We were asked to try to beef up the front tyre, to give it more a precise input when the drivers turn into the corner, to give more feel. We believe we've done that, and we've now finished the work on the rear so we'll see how we get on with a car designed around our tyres."

Hembery announced a number of tyre tests to be held throughout the season.

"At the moment we know we're going to be in Istanbul in April, then Barcelona in May," he confirmed. "We'll definitely be back in the Middle East again in Bahrain and Abu Dhabi at the end of the season. We couldn't get Silverstone, we're trying to go to Monza and probably Spa as well. So we are trying to carry on a parallel development programme. That's obviously looking more for 2012. We've got some ideas that, given more time we would have taken forward, but those now are rested and being put towards that programme."

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The Italian tyre manufacturer Pirelli returns to Formula 1 this year as the official supplier of racing tyres to all the teams for the next three years. Since August last year the company has conducted nine different private tests using an old Toyota TF109 chassis which has been driven by Nick Heidfeld, Roman Grosjean and Pedro de la Rosa at Mugello, Monza, Barcelona, Valencia, Jerez, Paul Ricard, Bahrain and, most recently, in Abu Dhabi. The Pirelli test drivers have covered more than 8,000 miles in different weather conditions to develop six different tyre compounds for use this year: four for the dry and two for the wet. The most recent test took place at night on the artificially wet Yas Marina track, simulating the kind of conditions that drivers could encounter this year.

This is a unique opportunity to witness a Formula1 test car on track at night in the wet and on hot tarmac, in an entirely floodlit setting, said Paul Hembery, Pirellis F1 Team Director. We decided to do it this way because we want to challenge our rain tyres with the most difficult and demanding of all situations. It is seven months since we started developing our tyres and five since we started with the actual testing. We are very satisfied with the results so far.

Pirelli engineers have also collected considerable feedback from the teams following a test in the days after the final 2010 race in Abu Dhabi. This featured 15 drivers, including Sebastian Vettel, Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa and added another 6,800 miles to the testing total.

Pirelli says that it will supply a total of 50,000 F1 tyres this season. These will be produced in a special unit of Pirellis Izmit factory in Turkey. Each team will have its own Pirelli engineer and there will be a crew of 50 Pirelli staff at each event. The team will be based at the companys Centro Ricerca e Sviluppo in Milan, Italy.

The company says that it will adopt a much more aggressive approach than its predecessor Bridgestone, using softer tyre compounds so that tyre wear is more of an issue for the teams. In an effort to help the spectators know what is going on the aim is to use colour coding on the tyres, with the Pirelli P Zero lettering on the sidewall of the tyres being in different colours for the different compounds. The latest reports suggest that super-soft tyres will be red; soft white; medium blue and hard yellow. In wet conditions the full wets will be yellow and the intermediates red. The only confusion likely will be in drying conditions when drivers switch from wet to dry tyres.

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Marlboro set to extend Ferrari deal

By Dieter Rencken Thursday, January 20th 2011, 10:05 GMT

Ferrari's new logoMarlboro is on the verge of extending its title sponsorship deals with both Ferrari and the Ducati MotoGP team, AUTOSPORT has learned.

The current deals run until the end of this season, but sources have revealed that negotiations are at an advanced stage for them to be renewed until the end of 2014.

It is possible that Ferrari's deal could be announced as early as its new car launch, which takes place in Maranello on January 28.

Although tobacco sponsorship had originally been expected to be eradicated from F1, and many countries ban the display of sponsorship logos, Marlboro has continued its high-profile association with both F1 and MotoGP.

A spokesman for Philip Morris, Marlboro's parent company, said that any new deal would be wholly within international law.

"We see no obstacles in the way of extension," said the spokesman. "Our relationship with Ferrari is a real partnership built over a period of over 20 years of constant, mutual support."

Last year Marlboro was forced to abandon its bar-code sponsorship design following suggestions it was a form of subliminal advertising. It has been replaced this year by an all new logo, which was sported by Ferrari personnel during last week's Wrooom media event.

Ferrari declined to comment on how close it was to a new deal, but suggested that there was no reason to believe a fresh sponsorship deal would not be agreed.

"All conditions (for extension) have been met," he said.

This year marks Marlboro's 40th season as an F1 team sponsor, with the brand having originally entered the sport with BRM in 1971.

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Op woensdag 19 januari 2011 22:57 schreef Sinister-D- het volgende:

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Dat was puur heldigheid van dat team de eerste 7 races

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Op donderdag 20 januari 2011 18:00 schreef Trystar het volgende:
You heard it here first. The RB7 will be launched at 8.30am on February 1. In Valencia. In the pit lane. Quietly excited...

Via de redbull Twitter

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Op vrijdag 21 januari 2011 12:19 schreef bodylotion het volgende:

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Ben benieuwd. Dat moet wel een klasbak worden. De dubbele diffuser is verboden en de RB5 deed in 2009 al goed mee zonder dat ding

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Op vrijdag 21 januari 2011 14:15 schreef ArcticBlizzard het volgende:

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Zwakke punt bij Red Bull is de laatste jaren niet de aerodynamica geweest maar de motor. Ben zeer benieuwd of Renault nog wat veranderingen heeft kunnen doorvoeren.

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Op vrijdag 21 januari 2011 14:15 schreef ArcticBlizzard het volgende:

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Zwakke punt bij Red Bull is de laatste jaren niet de aerodynamica geweest maar de motor. Ben zeer benieuwd of Renault nog wat veranderingen heeft kunnen doorvoeren.