BMW Sauber F1.06 launched
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Topic: BMW Sauber F1.06 launched
Posted By: kbannon
Subject: BMW Sauber F1.06 launched
Date Posted: 17-January-2006 at 06:34
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See http://www.bmw-sauber-f1.com/en/index.html - www.bmw-sauber-f1.com/en/index.html
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Posted By: Eamo
Date Posted: 18-January-2006 at 07:25
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looks impressive - 2 good drivers at the healm as well - lets hope they do well. ------------- |
Posted By: Peter Fenwick
Date Posted: 18-January-2006 at 07:35
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Gave up on the site after about 10 minutes. First I had to wait till the silte finished loading then I clicked on one of the links and that started loading too. I will try again at home where my connection is a bit quicker. ------------- Entering an age of Austerity and now driving a Focus Diesel. |
Posted By: Peter Fenwick
Date Posted: 19-January-2006 at 16:13
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Interesting site. Despite broadband at work it's amazing how much the firewall slows the connection down. It is 10 times quicker at home. The car looks good and that's normally a good sign. Not sure about the drivers though. Heidfeld's ok but Villeneuve wouldn't have been my choice. ------------- Entering an age of Austerity and now driving a Focus Diesel. |
Posted By: Peter H
Date Posted: 27-January-2006 at 11:02
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errari new boy Felipe Massa set the pace at Barcelona as some of Formula 1's big guns came out to play for the first time in open testing.
While Massa put more miles on Ferrari's V8 engine, Kimi Raikkonen tried McLaren's new MP4-21 for the first time and Micheal Schumacher blooded in Ferrari's new 248 F1 in serious company. Massa's time of 1m15.970s was largely irrelevant for while the Brazilian was using a V8, it was bolted to an old F2004 chassis. More significant was Rubens Barrichello's best lap of 1m16.361s, which made him the fastest runner driving a 2006 machine. Testing is testing and while it is unwise to read too much into times Barrichello will no doubt be pleased that not only was the Honda so fast so early on, but also that his car was 0.4s faster than team-mate Jenson Button's. Splitting the Hondas were Giancarlo Fisichella's super-consistent Renault R26, just 0.04s behind Barrichello, and Nick Heidfeld's impressive new BMW. The BMW-Sauber team has now concluded its running for the week and while test driver Robert Kubica ended the day 13th fastest, technical director Willy Rampf praised the Pole's progress. "I am very satisfied with the debut of Robert in our team," he said. Fernando Alonso was sixth fastest having completed a race distance and a spin while David Coulthard was seventh in the new Red Bull RB2. Schumacher was only eighth fastest in the new Ferrari although its early days for the 248. Jarno Trulli and Ralf Schumacher pounded through Bridgestone's tyre collection to the ninth and tenth fastest times while Vitantonio Liuzzi had a run-out for Scuderia Toro Rosso.
In fact although he was only 12th fastest on the day, two spots ahead of team-mate Pedro de la Rosa, the Finn declared himself pretty happy with MP4-21. "It is really good to be back testing and to see what the team has done with the new car," he said. "My first impression of the car is positive, but I will need more track time to find out how great the potential really is." ------------- Das Wolperdinger AHN-NYUNG-HEE GA-SEH-YO |
Raikkonen spent most of the morning in the garage but the Finn did manage 65 laps in the car he hopes will bring him his first title.Posted By: bmw2002
Date Posted: 27-January-2006 at 11:12
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& they're sponsoring the 02 Register - Look the logo's on the Front Spoiler.
Oh well it was worth a go.  ------------- www.bmw2002.co.uk o==00==o |