2019 Pre Season thread: Developments, News etc

Makes me wonder if Ferrari are using some leverage with AVL !

I do hope Red Bull will be close to the Ferrari and Merc - a three horse race is much more interesting for the sport and they allow its drivers to race each other. To me they share a small amount of DNA with the good 'ole Hesketh team, although not quite as wild !

 

Honda eyes 'big advantage' from Red Bull and Toro Rosso set-up

Toro Rosso's use of a complete Red Bull rear end in 2019 will be a "big advantage" for Honda as it prepares to supply two Formula 1 teams again.

Red Bull is switching to Honda engines next year after its junior team's successful first campaign with the Japanese manufacturer in 2018.

Toro Rosso has traditionally used the same gearbox internals from Red Bull Technology, but a different casing because it has not wanted to wait to finalise and sign off its gearbox and rear suspension.

As both teams will run Honda engines next they will share a complete rear end, including rear suspension, plus some front suspension parts.

"I think it's a big advantage," Honda technical director Toyoharu Tanabe told Autosport.

"We don't need to communicate between one team and another team, or they ask us completely separately.

"We don't have that situation. Of course, they have a slightly different design and we need to adapt to each team but it's not a big specification change."

Honda has not supplied two teams since returning to the F1 grid in 2015.

It was due to have two customers this year, but Toro Rosso replaced McLaren as its chief focus and Sauber cancelled a planned deal in favour of an upgraded Ferrari partnership.

It means this season will be Honda's first since 2008, when it had a works outfit and its B-team Super Aguri, with two teams using its engines.


"Theoretically we have double the data," joked Tanabe of the benefits.

"Not only trackside, but on the development side. We have a different team [in Red Bull], a different car philosophy, a different way of working, especially trackside.

"We can get more information, more knowledge from a new team.

"That's a big benefit for us."

When the prospect of a Red Bull-Honda alliance first became serious in early 2018, it was suggested that Tanabe would take an overarching role at trackside and two independent technical directors would be assigned to the two teams.

Honda motorsport boss Masashi Yamamoto said the main priority in late-2018 had simply been to bolster its manpower.

"We are increasing people at the factory of course," he told Autosport.

"And the other thing is trackside, we have to have twice as many people as this year.

"We have to have another assembly team for the race engines.

"Maybe for certain jobs we can share between both teams, but doubling the job, that means I will lose speciality - so having more people is a sensible idea."


https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/140874/honda-eyes-big-advantage-from-red-bullstr-setup

 

I think Ferrari is no longer working with AVL.

 

Your right. At one point they did. Perhaps the statement should have read "Ferrari also used (past tense) AVL.

It too appears that Ferrari terminated their relationship with AVL...either 2015?? Or 2017??? [shoulder shrug].

 

43 days to go till testing

 

It's Google translate....apologies for some of the verbage.

Mercedes: after Toto Wolff's alarm, found a dozen more horsepower on the engine


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The 2019 power unit is the result of a new project and at the beginning of the development work on the new engine the results were not too exciting. Now it seems that the engineers led by Andy Cowell have found a dozen more horses on the 6-cylinder world champion.

Mercedes is optimistic: after the cry of Toto Wolff's warning that in December he had hinted that the new power unit had not achieved the project objectives that the Brixworth technicians had given, the engineers directed by Andy Cowell would have worked well lena, because they would have found a dozen more horses than the F1 M09 EQ Power + engine that won the world championship in 2018.

V remembered that the unit that will equip the W10 is completely new, the result of a project that wants to project the Star towards the power units of the coming years. For the moment it remains top secret what were the elements of new design, but one fact is certain: after the "lash" of the Austrian team principal, the motorists have done a great job of development also depending on the new Petronas petrol and they would have found encouraging results in anticipation of the 2019 season.

The 6-cylinder Mercedes in the last championship gave the sensation of having been reached and overtaken by the power of the Ferrari engine at some point of the year, but then with the latest evolution a certain balance had been found even if at the expense of reliability , since there have been signs of overheating and hydraulic losses had never been seen in the past.

With the new unit some interventions have been made to avoid the repetition of the troubles 2018: the new project should have important margins of development both in terms of performance and consumption (this year the motorists will have 5 kg more fuel for complete the distance of 305 kg of the GP).

Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas, in fact, do not seem worried at all ...

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F1 | Turnaround at Ferrari home: Arrivabene greetings, Binotto new team principal
Revolution at the top of the Scuderia di Maranello

Clashing turnaround in the Ferrari house for what concerns the helm of the Sports Management. As reported by 'La Gazzetta dello Sport' during the day today, the Scuderia di Maranello would have chosen to entrust the technical and managerial management of the team to Mattia Binotto, promoting it as a team principal.

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Finally one right decision in ferrari

 

http://scuderiafans.com/mattia-binotto-to-replace-maurizio-arrivabene-as-ferrari-team-principal-italian-media/

https://www.corriere.it/sport/formula-1/notizie/ferrari-lascia-arrivabene-binotto-diventera-nuovo-team-principal-3fa33ad0-1242-11e9-8e32-62f2e5130e0b.shtml

 

The Binotto rumour has been floating around since 2015. Let's see if Arrivabene still has some lives left.

 

" Ferrari didn‘t want the season to start in tension between two leading people so Elkann had to chose and their choice was Binotto. Binotto had a long training by handling the technical department so handling driver shouldn‘t be difficult for him."

"according to Gazzetta even Camilleri‘s position as Ferrari‘s CEO is not "safe". Ex-Ferrari CEO Amedeo Felisa has been seen in Maranello."


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[Autosport] Ferrari has decided to drop its F1 team boss Arrivabene and replace him with its current technical chief, according to senior sources:

 

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I'll believe it when I see it.......

[Motorsport] RedBull/Honda has "party mode" for the first time.


Oh, and Marko: "In 2019 Red Bull is aware that it will not end the season with only 3 engines."[https://it.motorsport.com/f1/news/marko-nel-2019-red-bull-e-consapevole-che-non-finira-la-stagione-con-soli-3-motori/4320740/]

 

Yep, it will be interesting watching Max coming from the back of the grid......maybe Gasly too.

 

He's going to crashproof the car because the Torpedo is back, and Max will be fighting for position.

 

40 days to go till F1 testing.

 

RedBull adopting "drilling holes" Mercedes concept rims for 2019 RB15.


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The mayor of Zandvoort, clearly interested in hosting the Netherlands GP in 2020.




https://soymotor.com/noticias/el-alcalde-de-zandvoort-interesado-en-acoger-el-gp-de-paises-bajos-958831

 

[Autosport] Mclaren has hired ex-Porsche WEC boss Andreas Seidi to run its F1 team.