FORMULA 1 team - Sahara Force India F1 Team [1991-2018]

[K1M1]

Calado danas vozi na FP1. A vozi i gp2 odmah pola sata nakon toga. Mislim da je ovo prvi put da neki vozač vozi fp1 i gp2 u istom danu/vikendu. Čak sam dosad mislio da to nije dozvoljeno, al evo očito je, baš čudno kako nitko dosad to nije napravio...

[zonelsk]

Vozacka postava za 2014: Hulk i Perez

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[speedy56]

Napredak na bolje ako se mne pita. Hulkenberg je klasa za sebe, a Perez nije ništa losiji od di Reste koji mi nikad nije sjeo.
Dobitna kombinacija za FI - imaju odličnog vozača i jednoh fobrog koji nosi lovu (dodamo tome lovu koju ce FI dobiti od konst. mjesta i evo platforme za svjetlu buducnost)

[Cuky]

I veća slika:

[speedy56]

Force India je još poboljšala svoju vrlo dobru platformu za 2014., potpisali su s Roshtransom

Sahara Force India has signed a multi-year partnership with Roshfrans, a lubricant oils specialists from Mexico. The agreement will see prominent Roshfrans branding on the team’s new car, the VJM07 (rear wing endplate) as well as on the drivers’ suits, helmets and team clothing.

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Btw: Cuky, ova slika s Perezom i Hulkom je photoshopirana

[Cuky]

znam...doznao sam da je photoshopirana par minuta nakon što sam ju postavio, ali mi ju se nije dalo micat

[F1NAC]

nazalost ovo nije photoshop

[Toon]

Ma svaka bi ga majka poželjela za zeta. Pa vidi ti taj predivan osmijeh i ove prekrasno ukomponirane boje koje ističu sve najbolje na perspektivnom mladcu.
Čak mi malo vuče na Toma Cruisa...ili onaj look običan dobar dečko iz susjedstva....

[ivancina]

izgleda o trećerazredni švercer cigareta s arizone

[zonelsk]

Lik izgleda ko nosac kisobrana vozacima u kabanici. Nadam se da ima nece tako izgledati sva oprema.

[dmarijon]

Slažem se sa svime što ste do sada nabrojali.

[F1NAC]

izgleda ko moja nona s ton robon

[gringo73]

Exclusive for our #BestFans, the first image of our VJM07! Say hello to our 2014 contender - službeni twitter profil FI.

[Slash]

Izgleda BRUTALNO!

[zonelsk]

Ako je slika tocna i ako je ovo prvi bold koji vidimo za ovu godinu- ovo je obecavajuce.

Fakat brutalno izgleda

[dmarijon]

Izgleda odlično. A vjerujem da je to to. Hulk u ovome, turbo pišti... ma strava. Još zamišljam scene kao nekad s turbacima, ogroman okretni moment koji mu zadnji kraj blago nosi na izlascima iz zavoja. Znam da je potpuno nerealno , ali ...

[nikolaf1]

Odlicno izgleda. Koliko su se dizajneri zalili na izgled bolida, ovo je sve za 10. Mada, mozda neki bolidi stvarno budu ruzni, jer se ocekuju jako razlicite solucije prednjeg kraja, narocito nosa bolida.
Cini se da je Force India isla sa najjednostavnijom solucijom. Spustili su i suzili nos prema pravilima, bez nekih egzoticnih rjesenja.
Najzanimljivije ce biti posmatrati rjesenja na prednjem dijelu bolida, nos, prostor ispod nosa prema difuzoru i difuzor. Tu ce vecina momcadi ici do samog ruba pravila.

[mrd]

Na prvi pogled izgleda oodlicno iako ovaj kut ne otkriva previse, ja bih sacekao da ih vidimo u akciji.

[Kenny]

Bolesno izgleda u ovim bojama i s boka, jedino nos može pokvarit dojam ako izgleda ružno od naprjed

[mrd]

Kazu da je ovo na slici prva verzija i da ce konacni nos da izgleda drugacije: LINK

Evo scrabs malo svrlja:

A quick sharpie sketch of the #VJM07 nose

[Cuky]

Evo kompletni intervju sa Andrew Greenom, tehničkim direktorom FI

Dramatic reduction of downforce and drag - Green

Following the unveiling of their new car, Sahara Force India's technical director Andrew Green goes into a bit more detail on the design and what to expect from the VJM07 in the coming months.

How would you sum up the overall look of the VJM07?
“Apart from the obvious, it doesn't look hugely different, but it is; almost every single part is a new design, from the front wing right back to the diffuser. Its genetics still lie in the 2013 car, but we've had to achieve the same results in a slightly different way. The nose is a stand-out but from the nose backwards it looks quite similar. It's a little bit 'fatter' for the increased cooling requirements, but we hope to trim that out during the early part of the season. To be competitive we have to develop and because there are so many areas that need significantly refining, optimising the performance of this car is going to be a big challenge.”

How key are the aerodynamic changes for this year?
“The aerodynamic changes in themselves would have been significant, even if there had been no other regulation changes. There's quite a dramatic reduction in downforce, especially with regard to the exhaust – there's now very little you can do to capture the exhaust energy. That's a big loss on the exit of corners, so traction becomes a premium. That, combined with a change in the front wing width, has changed all the flow structures on the car completely.”

Is the narrower front wing the biggest change?
“The front wing change is significant; it's a completely different concept for 2014. Visually it's one of the biggest changes. That was a big task, rebuilding all those aerodynamic structures from the front to the back to complement the smaller rear wing. The loss of the lower rear wing, or beam wing, leads to a significant loss of performance. That lower wing helped connect the diffuser to the top wing and gave those two areas a lot of support. Without it, it's become very difficult to extract performance and it's going to be quite a tricky area to keep stable. So there was quite a dramatic loss in headline downforce numbers, while there was also a drop in drag, which has fallen quite dramatically as well.”

Will noses be a key area of development?
“Our nose is a launch spec and later we will have an updated front end of the car, which potentially is quite different. We had to take quite a pragmatic view of it and say we've got to go testing so we've got to get a car out of the door. As much as we want to push the boundaries of the impact structure, because we know how important they are for the whole car, we don't have the resources to push it to the limit in our first iteration, so we need a banker. The nose that is on the launch car is a banker. We've got ourselves a car that we can go testing and racing with. Several weeks ago we started pushing the design boundaries because we think there's performance in it. There are new concepts coming through.”

Everyone has to choose eight ratios for the season. Have you simply followed the selection made by Mercedes?
“Although our ratios are supplied by Mercedes we also did our own simulations, and to be honest we came up with very similar answers. We were happy to carry on that route. We are allowed one change and I think we'll wait and see how it performs and how it compares to our simulation. The good news is that lengthy ratio discussions (which gears to lengthen or shorten) will become a thing of the past, so that saves a small amount of work track side! The ratios look fairly benign, from what we can see from our preliminary solutions.”

How hard has it been to fit the new power unit into the overall package?
“It's been a massive job to accommodate all the changes to the power unit - it's the biggest change I've witnessed in the sport since I started in 1990. On top of that, if you add the development that comes with it during the season, it's going to take some managing. From the first time the car runs it will be continual development as we gather data, understand where the car sits relative to our models, refine it, and go back to the track again.”

What's been the biggest challenge in terms of packaging?
“Cooling has been the biggest challenge – most of last summer was taken up trying to understand the cooling requirements of the power unit, and how best to optimise it in the chassis. There's a lot more to cool and you are weighing up the performance of the power unit versus the performance of the chassis and aerodynamics, and trying to hit the optimum on each one of them. We've had to develop a completely new tool set to examine, analyse and optimise it. We won't get a real answer on how far out we were until we start running and then we'll refine the tools again and have another go at it. I expect quite a big redefinition of the cooling system later in the season once we've gathered all the data from the winter testing and the first couple of races.”

What else is new this year?
“The braking system is a significant change; the rear system is effectively a brake by wire. This means the rear brakes can now respond completely differently from the way they have traditionally done before. A lot of work has gone into this system from simulation, design to testing it on the dyno. However, we won't fully know how the system will perform until we get on track and gather some data and driver feedback.”

IZVOR

[Slash]

Ne kužim ovo s kočnicama zadnje. Do sad se nije pričalo o promjeni kočnica?

[Cuky]

mislim da je bilo nekog govora (ali naravno, svi se koncentrirali na motore i nos jer to svih zanima, koga briga za kočenje) da kočnice više nisu direktno povezane sa pedalom nego je pedala kao i ova za gas povezana sa elektronikom koja onda naređuje kočnicama da rade ono što je vozač pitao

[Slash]

mislim da je bilo nekog govora (ali naravno, svi se koncentrirali na motore i nos jer to svih zanima, koga briga za kočenje) da kočnice više nisu direktno povezane sa pedalom nego je pedala kao i ova za gas povezana sa elektronikom koja onda naređuje kočnicama da rade ono što je vozač pitao

Pa to je poprilično big-deal ako se sjetimo koliko se prošle godine Hamilton mučio zbog promjene kočnica...

[Cuky]

pa big deal je...ali pogledaj što ljude interesira općenito kad su auti, pa tako i bilo koje utrke u pitanju: koliko konja ima, koliko brzo ide i kako izgleda...nitko ne pita "jel', a kako to čudo koči?" ili "koji je omjer težine naprijed-nazad"...zato se svuda piše samo o novim aero pravilima i novim motorima...