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No, it is not an easy car to engineer, but Brad Kettler was working with Kolles at Barcelona, and with the exception of Howden Haynes, who can engineer an R10 like Kettler?
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If we are saying you need Joest, McNish and co to win with an R10, it would show the petrol/diesel balance is fairly close, and any subsequent performance advantage the R15 shows is more down to the fact it's a state of the art car from a fine tuned factory team. |
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It's an interesting situation. I think the Kolles R10 had some new parts on it at the rear end. Maybe for development to be on the R15. After one of the cars retired due to suspension failure they covered up the rear end when they took the engine cover off. We know that if it was not anything new they would not cover the rear end. We have seen absolutley everything on the R10 from the years before. Something must have changed. Maybe they are running the new particulate filters and turbochargers. So what were they hiding at barcelona. We never saw the r15s filters and we never will. And if brad kettler was there then something indeed is going on.
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Something was indeed going on with Kettler there. What was going on was Kettler working with Kolles because, let's face it, he doesn't really have anything else to do. Hopefully he will get to engineer a car at Le Mans and thus be involved in testing, but otherwise he was only running the 2 at Sebring because H was taken ill. |
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Wasnt Kettler involved somehow with Kölles DTM effort last year ?
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Perhaps it has the new V10 engine
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The 908's V12 was a stormer from the off, and developed over the winter, while Audi have designed an all new V10. Acura have arguably compromised performance in anticipation of the 2011 regs, while customer engine manufacturer's must also have an eye on this. |
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Strakka Ginetta's lost many places at the start. Look at this link how was the distance from Aston Martin 007 at the first corner:
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From what i understand he put the brakes on when the green flag threw thinking he could keep the field going slow behind him until the start line, unfortunately that's not how the starts work Peter.
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Peter Hardman is hardly a novice, but he did double-check that his understanding of the starting procedure was the correct one by speaking to race officials beforehand. He was assured that his status as driver of the car on pole meant that he could control the start all the way to the line, and so he did . . . well, he attempted to anyway. And while I'm in "defending Strakka" mood, I note from earlier posts that Nick Leventis came in for some stick for his middle-stint pace. In fact, he only lost one position, which is fair going under the circumstances. |
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Thumper, if that was the case the clerk of the course should have had enough reasons for a restart....perhaps it is something that should be extensively discussed during the drivers briefing at Spa. Interestingly the polesitter in the CER race took off too early, which resulted in another lap behind the safety car....
As far as the Strakka strategy is concerned, afaik the plan was to ensure that Nick would not loose a lap during his stint. I did not follow the race close enough to see whether he managed to do that, but I think by the time Danny Watts got in the car it was already several laps behind. (Safety cars are a real nuisance in this type of races.....) |
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