2021 VASC Silly Season - Page 20

Driver TBA · 11 Feb 2021, 01:00 (Ref:4034604)

Only 888 and DJR have single naming rights sponsor for both cars this year.

Would have to be the lowest number in the last 30 years.

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Mixer · 12 Feb 2021, 22:35 (Ref:4034899)

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Originally Posted by Driver TBA

Only 888 and DJR have single naming rights sponsor for both cars this year. Would have to be the lowest number in the last 30 years.

Yeah there's this pandemic and the economy is stuffed.

Lots of companies surviving on government money and not a good look if you spend millions on marketing when you are doing that.

Gaz170 · 13 Feb 2021, 02:21 (Ref:4034912)

Team Sydney has both cars painted the same for now.
But yes, shows that it's hard for a lot of sponsors to justify the cost of 2 cars.

fomoco · 20 Feb 2021, 22:28 (Ref:4036114)

https://www.speedcafe.com/2021/02/21...re-aero-tweak/

No racing , yet changes made ????????

Mixer · 21 Feb 2021, 00:06 (Ref:4036127)

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Originally Posted by fomoco

https://www.speedcafe.com/2021/02/21...re-aero-tweak/

No racing , yet changes made ????????

You didn't read the article, did you.

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Sandgroper · 21 Feb 2021, 01:25 (Ref:4036137)

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Originally Posted by Mixer

You didn't read the article, did you.

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Exactly.

fomoco · 21 Feb 2021, 04:16 (Ref:4036140)

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Originally Posted by Mixer

You didn't read the article, did you.

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Read it about five times , tell me my learned friend, how does shane bashing the curbs , and break the upright , have anything to do with heat, yet the said vehicle win 1000km race ,

Did the air fairy's arrive at Bathurst?

Did any other team claim the same thing?

Yes I do read , and yes I have a Mechanical background

fomoco · 21 Feb 2021, 04:18 (Ref:4036141)

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Originally Posted by Sandgroper

Exactly.

Read it about five times , tell me my learned friend, how does shane bashing the curbs , and break the upright , have anything to do with heat, yet the said vehicle win 1000km race ,

Did the air fairy's arrive at Bathurst?

Did any other team claim the same thing?

Yes I do read , and yes I have a Mechanical background

UncleMurphy · 21 Feb 2021, 20:17 (Ref:4036226)

The heat issue has been publicised with multiple power steering failures - the pump overheats and starts binding the rack and associated suspension components. So it did have a relationship to SVG's shock failure at the ADL500. BJR, MSR, Team Sydney/TEKNO and WAU have been fighting the issues all year

https://autoaction.com.au/2020/11/09...iNenXjaw0cyITQ

Compromised · 21 Feb 2021, 21:59 (Ref:4036235)

Odd the Mustang didn't get the same tweak since parity was the "closest it's ever been" and subsequent changes last year have made the two models even closer...

Tourer · 22 Feb 2021, 01:11 (Ref:4036252)

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Originally Posted by Compromised

Odd the Mustang didn't get the same tweak since parity was the "closest it's ever been" and subsequent changes last year have made the two models even closer...

Think I saw in the article that Mustang already had a similar vent. They must have focused on external / performance aero & not considered additional cooling needs until it was obvious they were needed.

rich07 · 22 Feb 2021, 03:54 (Ref:4036256)

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Originally Posted by UncleMurphy

The heat issue has been publicised with multiple power steering failures - the pump overheats and starts binding the rack and associated suspension components. So it did have a relationship to SVG's shock failure at the ADL500. BJR, MSR, Team Sydney/TEKNO and WAU have been fighting the issues all year

https://autoaction.com.au/2020/11/09...iNenXjaw0cyITQ

So this duct is supposed to try and allay those cooling issues and if it does that then it saves the teams money in less failures etc. This is a good thing and yet all I see elsewhere are fans complaining about Holden being given another tweak. These are the same idiots that complain about costs being too high in the category. The irony in these fans complaining about a aero tweak that is supposed to help teams avoid known technical failures is just laughable.

Just goes to show how stupid the fanbase is.

The Mustang doesn’t have those issues because no doubt it’s a different designed aero package to suit and one of the advantages of the design appears to be cooling. How is this simple concept not understood?

Umai Naa · 22 Feb 2021, 05:18 (Ref:4036257)

Spot on.

It's a reliability aide, not a performance one.

Back to your caves, people.

Driver TBA · 22 Feb 2021, 08:17 (Ref:4036263)

Bit of click bait on Speedcafe's part calling it an "aero tweak"

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S griffin · 22 Feb 2021, 09:32 (Ref:4036273)

I guess they need something to keep news going, even it's a minor thing like that

crmalcolm · 22 Feb 2021, 14:24 (Ref:4036312)

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Originally Posted by S griffin

I guess they need something to keep news going, even it's a minor thing like that

Yes - it seems like there was an insatiable need to write something, no matter how trivial and insignificant.

Compromised · 22 Feb 2021, 18:16 (Ref:4036331)

So AIR flowing into the wheel arch has no effect on downforce...

S griffin · 22 Feb 2021, 18:25 (Ref:4036332)

Of course, but it’s not the main bit of downforce on the car. It does help though

justracing · 22 Feb 2021, 19:24 (Ref:4036340)

These very same tit for tat arguments on the advantage of aero/suspension/chassis tweeks being fair/unfair or favouring one manufacturer have been going on since the year dot and will no doubt continue ad infinitum. I'm pretty sure they are fuelled by the two major combatants as a PR excercise.

Just Do It! · 22 Feb 2021, 19:38 (Ref:4036343)

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Originally Posted by Compromised

Odd the Mustang didn't get the same tweak since parity was the "closest it's ever been" and subsequent changes last year have made the two models even closer...

A very solid point. In the road-going Mustangs, it is quite common to find a hot rack

S griffin · 23 Feb 2021, 22:23 (Ref:4036507)

Hopefully the Mustang can do the business. We’ll see what tweaks it can come up with

Kingair · 6 Mar 2021, 21:48 (Ref:4039284)

Speedcafe reporting that Gisbergen has had some surgery, after a mountain bike accident.

Hopefully he won’t miss the Sandown round.

Sandgroper · 7 Mar 2021, 00:41 (Ref:4039294)

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Originally Posted by Kingair

Speedcafe reporting that Gisbergen has had some surgery, after a mountain bike accident.

Hopefully he won’t miss the Sandown round.

Think Marc Marquez............I know this is a bike compaired to a car but surely the belts wont help the pain levels

gravin · 12 Mar 2021, 04:47 (Ref:4040043)

According to AA article. Barry claims the previous engineers and drivers don't work as a team and they all had big egos. ( Barry was the other engineer with the absence of Mr McV.)

Translation - Nobody would listen to me and it is my way or the highway.

Sandgroper · 13 Mar 2021, 08:57 (Ref:4040248)

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Originally Posted by gravin

According to AA article. Barry claims the previous engineers and drivers don't work as a team and they all had big egos. ( Barry was the other engineer with the absence of Mr McV.)

Translation - Nobody would listen to me and it is my way or the highway.

He's the kinda guy ya want promoting your business right !

What a very very immature statement.

My thoughts of the EX Penrite racing team are now diminishing.

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