yillow 0 Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 Well, a bit amusing anyway. This forum by the way highly recommended to you F1 fans out there. If you're still awake! ========= http://www.atlasf1.com/bb/showthread.php?s=2850afeab851ee93258482f32d0fa549&threadid=41025 ========= McLaren also suffered rear wing problems on Kimi Raikkonen's car, insofar as it fell off a bit more than it was strictly supposed to. Suprisingly, the McLaren garage didn't seem too worried about the same thing happening on DC's car, and while at the time it may have seemed foolhardy to leave him out on the track, it actually makes quite a lot of sense when you look at the facts. Fact 1: The car is supposed to be designed around David this year, to give him his best shot at the WDC. Fact 2: David's head is shaped like a cube. Fact 3: Kimi's head is altogether more normal (although he seems to have picked up a penchant for bad haircuts from his ex-teammate at Sauber). Fact 4: McLaren's top design guy is a specialist aerodynamicist. What can we deduce from this information? It's simple, really. When designing the car, Adrian Newey took David's head-shape into account, overcoming the problems caused by it's basic squareness, making it as advantageous to the entire package as possible. The result? Car works ok when David drives it. However, when Kimi with his normal shaped head gets into the driver's seat, problems arise. The progression is reasonably simple: Kimi's head doesn't block airflow, strain on the rear wing is increased substantially, wing falls off. Apparently McLaren are well aware of the problem and are currently working on a solution - unfortunately it may take a bit longer to implement than originally thought, as Toyota don't seem all that keen on hiring David. So for the immediate future at least, McLaren remain troubled. Their new motorhome however, is really cool. Link to post Share on other sites
oo 1 Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 Oh good old Cubey - he must be feeling down right now. Link to post Share on other sites
Wizz 11 Posted May 1, 2002 Share Posted May 1, 2002 Cubehead will be out of a McLaren seat at the end of this year. He muse be down. Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted May 1, 2002 Share Posted May 1, 2002 Funny. Good F1 Forum as well... Link to post Share on other sites
eddie 0 Posted May 8, 2002 Share Posted May 8, 2002 Cubie should quit at the end of this year. Raikkonen has just joined the team Cubey has been in for 7 years and is already out-performing (debatable) him. The new Flying Finn will surely be well ahead of DC by the second half of the season. Link to post Share on other sites
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