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Aug 7^th, 2008 at 5:50pm

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3XWD90QOv4
Nice 3d video of the F2008, and just incase your rivals are blind or too cheap to afford a digital camera, the team save you the effort of figuring out new parts by animating it to show them Cheesy

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Reply #1 - Aug 7^th, 2008 at 6:38pm

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And they still couldn't beat it.....

When it's engine was working.. Tongue

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Reply #2 - Aug 7^th, 2008 at 6:51pm

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They found the problem at least, was a manufacturing issue with quality control, on a part thats been used since 2006. Ironically the part that was upgraded after Michaels blow up in Japan which cost him the championship.

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Reply #3 - Aug 15^th, 2008 at 1:34am

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blimey! And heres me thinking it was Kimi's 'Massa engine failure' button, to be used only when it looks like your team may focus on your team-mate for the the rest of the season rather than yourself......

Just when it looked like it might have to be Massa, his engine goes bang! Cheesy

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Reply #4 - Aug 15^th, 2008 at 4:12am

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Craig. wrote on Aug 7^th, 2008 at 6:51pm:

They found the problem at least, was a manufacturing issue with quality control, on a part thats been used since 2006. Ironically the part that was upgraded after Michaels blow up in Japan which cost him the championship.

Or so they say...............R&D Ban.................no,no,no, just a small QA problem Grin

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Reply #5 - Aug 15^th, 2008 at 7:11am

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expat wrote on Aug 15^th, 2008 at 4:12am:

Craig. wrote on Aug 7^th, 2008 at 6:51pm:

They found the problem at least, was a manufacturing issue with quality control, on a part thats been used since 2006. Ironically the part that was upgraded after Michaels blow up in Japan which cost him the championship.

Or so they say...............R&D Ban.................no,no,no, just a small QA problem Grin

Matt

You might be joking. But thats exactly how teams like Ferrari and Mclaren have gotten round the ban in engine R&D.
They can go to the FIA as can any other team, and show them that a part is not working properly, or there is a "design or manufacturing fault" and the FIA can say, well okay bring us a part that does work and we will sign it off as legal for use.
Renault keep complaining about this, but hey if your not good enough to "interpret" the rules to your benifit then you shouldn't be in F1.

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Reply #6 - Aug 15^th, 2008 at 7:21am

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Craig. wrote on Aug 15^th, 2008 at 7:11am:

Renault keep complaining .

Um from what ive read on autosport wasnt it renault (amongst others) that pushed for the engine freeze? And then Renaults F1 engine place in chat...chat...chat villy somthing french anyway - got rid of a lot of its staff.....or somthing like that!

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Reply #7 - Aug 15^th, 2008 at 8:10am

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IT was, but then Renault had one of the best engines at the time so shock of all shocks.
I think they need to do away with the freeze, its getting boring, reliability is near 100% and teams even run engines on 4 cylinders when they can just to improve it that little bit more.

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