2015 Silly Season

[Micklegend]

Originally Posted by naca

I've heard this is more of enticement to get Canto to move across from PRA for the enduros (although I'm guessing PRA give him more hope of a decent finish)

Doing early set up of the car for Reynolds next year perhaps? May as well start while they can, he knows what Dave likes.

[Mixer]

Hard to know where to put this:
http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/c...l?sf15558570=1

Red Bull recruits a new engineer from the Mercedes DTM team. I'd reckon with 5 years under her belt in DTM she should be able to do the business in V8s.

[Umai Naa]

It's just data acquisition mostly. As per the image in the link, mostly pouring over a laptop doing data dumps and analysis.

Not quite what the likes of Dutton, McPhearson or Cauchi do.

[Jam3s]

You underestimate the role. The data engineer has to be analyse car vitals, look for any signs of issues, then further analyse driver and car performances to find where time is being lost or gained, this in itself is crucial improving a car over the course of the weekend. Understanding damper histograms, FFT's etc, it's important stuff. On top of that the data engineer determines the strategy options during the race, has to keep track of fuel windows, Safety car windows and know exact fuel target numbers a driver must achieve to complete the race. While doing all that number crunching they're also keeping an eye on the telemetry to ensure the car is healthy and no mechanical issues are appearing. It's a full on role and not one that just anyone can jump into and if the data engineer makes a mistake, you can often find yourself stranded on the side of the track. They certainly didn't reach out to an experienced German for nothing.

[Umai Naa]

I'm not underestimating it, and not over-selling it either.

[Starion13]

Information is king - Gordon Gecko.

Roland knows this to be true.

[TSR]

Originally Posted by Mixer

Hard to know where to put this:
http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/c...l?sf15558570=1

Red Bull recruits a new engineer from the Mercedes DTM team. I'd reckon with 5 years under her belt in DTM she should be able to do the business in V8s.

What about the other females that work with LCM, PRA & there is another team that escapes me. Just goes to show that V8Supercars r so in love with 888

[Mixer]

What are you 5 years old?

[rich07]

Roland doesn't hire people just for shits and giggles. She's there for good reasons and to fill a needed role so good on her.

Haven't heard of anyone coming from DTM to V8 Supercars (Mattias Ekstrom aside) so maybe this is a first

[Starion13]

Originally Posted by Mixer

What are you 5 years old?

Who and what are you referring to?

[Mixer]

Originally Posted by TSR

What about the other females that work with LCM, PRA & there is another team that escapes me. Just goes to show that V8Supercars r so in love with 888

This piece of crayon-written brilliance.

[Umai Naa]

I think he's referring to Janelle Novarro, who's worked for PRA, Erebus, and now LDM.

[TSR]

Originally Posted by Umai Naa

I think he's referring to Janelle Novarro, who's worked for PRA, Erebus, and now LDM.

And there are other girls out there as well, but the red glass web page pumps up 888, I seen BJR had a girl on there team as well today that never got a mention

[Umai Naa]

You know the majority of the time, the V8SC and AdCafe pages write their stories based on press releases supplied by the teams, right?

[GTRMagic]

Will the regular pilots in #4, #111 & #222 make a return for Homebush?

[Tourer]

[QUOTE=rich07;
Haven't heard of anyone coming from DTM to V8 Supercars (Mattias Ekstrom aside) so maybe this is a first[/QUOTE]

There's been a few team people, not dozens but a few. Definitely not a first.

[Umai Naa]

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

Will the regular pilots in #4, #111 & #222 make a return for Homebush?

None of the replacements hardly set the world on fire this weekend.

[Denosaur]

Originally Posted by gtcapri

All the Ford fans?? Nice generalisation. Like saying all Holden fans believe a similar thing about Lowndes... The same guy the Holden fanbois fell over worshipping when at HRT, thoroughly hated when at Ford, and now fawn over now he's back in a Holden. And yet I've never seen anyone wander around the pits in a t-shirt proclaiming either Ambrose or Lowndes are god......Deluded fanbois are everywhere in all camps.

Reading through a few forums over the years quite a few Fordies didn't like Ambrose. Far more (including his fans) thought it was dumb to come back. Turns out they were right. He seems to be more comfortable in a driver mentor role anyway.

I think you missed the point of my comments.....

He had his time back then, made his mark and moved on, with all his song and dance about it. He should have never come back the way he did and I think he knew he'd do more damage to his record by hanging around. I'll give him credit for what he did this year, and that's as far as I go with him.

[one five five]

Originally Posted by rich07

Haven't heard of anyone coming from DTM to V8 Supercars (Mattias Ekstrom aside) so maybe this is a first

Manuel Reuter

[rich07]

Originally Posted by one five five

Manuel Reuter

When did he race here?

[GTRMagic]

Alex Zoelling, engineer for LMS..

[one five five]

Originally Posted by rich07

When did he race here?

Co-drove with Brock at Bathurst in 1992 in the new VP

[rich07]

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

Alex Zoelling, engineer for LMS..

Larkham Motorsport?

Originally Posted by one five five

Co-drove with Brock at Bathurst in 1992 in the new VP

Cheers. How'd he go?

[chavez]

Was not a former Bathurst winner a competitor in German touring cars?

[Reload]

Originally Posted by chavez

Was not a former Bathurst winner a competitor in German touring cars?

Armin Hahne ?