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26 Feb 2003, 06:46 (Ref:517968)
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BA Rear Wings
Seems that there is a weakness in some of the BA rear wings. Both Max Wilson and Russell Ingall broke rear wings during testing at QR today. In testing Ingall is fastest followed by Ambrose.
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26 Feb 2003, 06:47 (Ref:517971)
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Seems we were posting similiar threads at the same time
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26 Feb 2003, 06:49 (Ref:517974)
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Lol beat ya tool man.
Seems like there is problem there though. I guess it s good to find out these things now though. |
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26 Feb 2003, 07:04 (Ref:517985)
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Do you have any times Pete?
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26 Feb 2003, 07:10 (Ref:517989)
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I think Ingall 1.11.34 ; Ambrose 1.11.45 and Radisich 1.11.48
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26 Feb 2003, 07:12 (Ref:517991)
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Thanks Pete.AGP should be interesting.
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26 Feb 2003, 07:41 (Ref:518011)
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No biggy, it will be just change the way the wing mounts or strengthen the mounts, should not be too much drama, could also be manufacturing fualts as well, I am sure we will know soon enough
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26 Feb 2003, 08:47 (Ref:518056)
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Whatever is causing the problems with the rear wings and the front splitters, it is a bit late in the day to be trying to fix or build 12 or so new aero kits. After all, there's just over a week before the cars begin practice for their first race of the year.
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26 Feb 2003, 12:48 (Ref:518246)
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Still, each team has 15+ blokes working for them, there are a lot of people out there who can make wings, there are a lot of fabricators etc etc
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26 Feb 2003, 21:27 (Ref:518702)
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The wings are composites, made from moulds taken from an original wing. At the moment due to supply issues, most of these parts were bought in from a supplier to FPV, nat made by their usual composite contractor.
I doubt its a design flaw, the demo BA had no such dramas, but once commercialised it turns to mud  The top teams will get their heads around the issue and have it fixed reasonably quickly |
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26 Feb 2003, 23:38 (Ref:518780)
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And I assume the aero testing didn't show up any weeknesses, and I would have thought this would have tekan the cars to max do/f levels, BJR, SER and Briggs didn't suffer the problem, only 2 cars suffered it so perhaps its a manufacturing fault rather than a design fault?
Only a minor problem though, i'd expect to see BA's with those centre rods fitted just in case. |
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27 Feb 2003, 00:26 (Ref:518802)
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Hopefully they will sort out any problems sooner rather than later...
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27 Feb 2003, 02:35 (Ref:518848)
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No worries,who needs a rear wing anyways....
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27 Feb 2003, 05:39 (Ref:518930)
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Didn't they have this same problem with the AU? Thus the reason for the centre support. Sounds like the same old problems. To much rear downforce. Maybe they should get rid of those end supports and go for the Holden rear wing.
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27 Feb 2003, 05:56 (Ref:518935)
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Attn Moffman Attn Moffman Getting scared?? Ingal already out performing Ambrose! 
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27 Feb 2003, 05:59 (Ref:518937)
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yaaah, GO INGALL. Is FPR going to start thinking about its testing yet? I think its probably about time to..., then again I just want to see the cars.
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27 Feb 2003, 06:13 (Ref:518944)
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allegedly that is the reason why DJRs launch was set back, seems they found a fault in the rear wing due to manufacturing problems. it would give you great confidence going into the first race of the year knowing the wing fails whilst the car is in the workshop
then again if any team knows about wing failure it would be dick, think back to bathurst 95 when they had a sprint round there & his wing broke giong into the chase |
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27 Feb 2003, 10:33 (Ref:519136)
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Do they have wing supprts in the middles of the wing itself-a small metal rod between bootlid and bottom of the wing? I'm sure the AU had this?
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