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16 Apr 2011, 12:27 (Ref:2864246) | #26 | |
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We'd expect Glock to praise the team if the car was good, wouldn't we? Well, it works both ways.
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Totally right, the guy is potentially a front runner and he's doing worse than he did last year because the team has gone backwards.
It's ruining his career - he surely would've expected improvements this season. Presumably he's free end of this season then he might stand a chance of getting a decent ride again. I don't think Jerome out-qualifying him a couple of times will make much difference to his stock, as the german is the lynchpin of the team at the mo. |
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It's painful just how poor that Virgin is. Having said that, all the signs in the winter pointed to a sh1t box of a car. Same poor design team, Cosworth engine, smaller budget than most, CFD only design, with inexperience throughout.
Lotus, I expect, will be up with the midfield by seasons-end, Hispania will probably leap-frog Virgin despite being embarrassing in their build-up to the season too. Glock is a very capable driver, so he's got to hope he's got a hell of a Manager to go around knocking down doors to get out of this farce of a team for 2012. I want to see them push-on I really do, but you just know that the Istanbul package will make no difference, irritatingly... |
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Really? Heidfeld outqualified him 4 to zero. Trulli did 25 to 7. He did have some decent races in a 400million dollar Toyota but even those years must have been pretty cold for him in the shadow of Trulli.
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newlaprecord, cracking attempt at an argument for the team there. full praise.
I think that Glock had truly put Trulli in the sahde by the end of 2009 and was often the more competitve Toyota driver, indeed a couple of his drives that season were fantastic which suggested there might even be a potentiao for a win at last but sadly they pulled the plug, and tbh it was the right thing to do for all the resources that had been squandered. Timo was the first proper racer 'on the way' that the team had employed and it showed. You complain about Glock moaning about his equipment, but then haven't a great many drivers done that in the past, such as Hamilton, Alonso, Senna, Prost etc etc? and Usually it actually spurs things into action rather than makes things worse. Obiously it would help Glock if he was saying such things in a more established team but the guy knows he is better than his current lot and would be very very keen to prove it. He wants the team to do better because he will do better!! Also I think you may also find that Renault and Williams were looking at him last year, but he was under contract for this year and crucially for such teams doesn't have any money to bring! The end of this season may be different for him, we'll see. |
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Having thought about this for a while now how long do the team persevere with Nick Wirth, if the updates dont bring a big improvement what then? I am assuming even if the updates do work at best they will close up a bit to the back of the grid, so that will be two seasons trailing around near the back, do they stick with him for a third season, more of the same, a fourth season? Would they ever consider parting company with Wirth and getting someone like Dallara to build a car so they could at least get it in a wind tunnel or would they just pack up and be done with it all, experiment failed.
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I noticed recently that former Jag chassis designer Ben Agathangelou is now at Dallara so maybe that wouldn't be a bad choice!
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Virgin ask Pat Symonds, who is already a consultant to the team, to undertake a full review of teams technical performance. Wind tunnel testing may also be considered!
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Glad to see Booth is at least considering wind tunnel testing, also interesting to see that he said the upgrades for Turkey are almost significant enough to warrant giving the car a B-spec designation. http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/2...ar-for-turkey/
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There is currently quite a bit of spare capacity to be used at wind tunnels in the UK. Many teams have had to shut down a wind tunnel or vastly reduce its running of a wind tunnel under the current resource restriction agreement.
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Not a very exciting perspective for them...
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As Glock is the only one with the full upgrade this weekend what sort of gap should we be looking for to D'Ambrosio, i appreciate that they have to sort out all the new stuff and how it works but surely they will want Glock to be the best part of 1 second up the road, if he's not and HRT are ahead of them, disaster.
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They did the same last year. Glock got the car with the bigger fuel tank before Di Grassi.
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Well done Jérôme; the better driver today.
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And Glock had the new upgrade package?
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Glock had the full upgrade package on his car on Friday, but they had to remove the new exhausts and floor on Saturday because of heat issues. So D'Ambrosio and Glock qualified with same configuration.
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If maybe Virgin worked hard at getting some new sponsors and there fore money into the team and then invested that into development they might be on the right track. However while Branson pays them $2.00 a race to be title sponsor they aint goin no where
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Hmm, it's hardly making Nick Wirth's lot look brilliant all this is it.
Thing is, realistically, there's just no sign of them moving-forward in the near future. It's poor to be consistently miles off the pace. HRT should be, with the lack of running in winter, miles behind, so Liuzzi out-doing Glock is just unacceptable. Be interesting to see how Symonds' consultancy gets involved with the team longer-term... |
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