Renault 2019

[Radoye]

Jbg sve mi mirise na gasenje tima.

 

Greota.

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Daj spojite to sa Williams-om... 😄 

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Renault F1 team signs de Beer as head of aero

 

Renault has signed former Ferrari and Williams aero chief Dirk de Beer as part of a wide staffing reshuffle ahead of 2020.

 

De Beer has been on gardening leave since leaving Williams last year, but will now join Renault as its head of aerodynamics. Peter Machin, who is currently in that role, is to leave the outfit by mutual agreement.

As part of a wider restructure, Renault has made Vince Todd an interim deputy head of aerodynamics before a full-time appointment is made next year when a staff member will join from a rival team.

James Rogers, who is principal aerodynamicist in change of future car projects, has been promoted to a new position of chief aerodynamicist.

Renault team boss Cyril Abiteboul said: "In 2019 we have shown some strengths, but identified areas that needed reinforcement.

"After a rapid growth of our aerodynamic department and a modernisation of our equipment, the strengthening of the management layer of this key department will help us reap the benefits of our investments.

"This is particularly relevant as we enter a very important year in our midterm plan with the 2021 aerodynamic regulations now confirmed."

Renault's executive director Marcin Budkowski believes de Beer, who had a previous spell at Enstone when it was known as Lotus, was exactly what the team needed to make progress.

"We are delighted to welcome Dirk as Head of Aerodynamics," he explained. "His proven technical and management skills make him the perfect profile to lead such a large and complex department.

"James has demonstrated a strong ability to generate performance and this new role will enable him to steer the aerodynamic development of all our car projects.

"These changes are the next step in the restructuring of Renault F1 Team's chassis operation in Enstone and I am confident that they will allow us to resume our progress towards the front of the grid."

 

Bur/Afrikaner, dobro poznata faca u Enstonu nasledio je legendarnog Tosoa. Allison ga vodi sa sobom u Ferrari.

 

Sklon eksperimentu poput R29 i R31(sa onim ludim izduvom napred). 

 

Promena u timu je napravljena tamo gde su trenutni rezultati pokazivali da je najpotrebnija. Dirk je veliko pojačanje i ovakvi likovi se uglavnom ne potpisuju pred izlazak iz sporta.

Edited November 1, 2019 by alpiner

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Pat Fry izgleda dolazi u Rendžu. 

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It is expected that the Renault Formula 1 team will shortly announce that Pat Fry is to become the new technical leader at the Enstone-based team.

This will mark the 55-year-old’s return to the team, which he initially joined in 1987, when it was known as Benetton. He had cut his teeth with the defense company Thorn EMI, working on missile designs, but his passion was motorcycling racing. While looking for a job in two-wheeled sport he stumbled upon an advertisement from Benetton seeking an electronics engineer to design an active suspension system.

Working initially under Pat Symonds, he soon became a race engineer and worked with Michael Schumacher during his Benetton years. He was then hired by McLaren to work with the team in 1993 and stayed in Woking for the next 17 years, moving up through various engineering roles to become the project leader of two World Championship-winning cars. He was then lured to Ferrari, where he was given the role of technical director (chassis) in 2010. It was a turbulent time for Ferrari, and when James Allison was hired in 2014, Fry moved into a new role as engineering director before deciding to become a consultant engineer. He consulted initially with Manor F1 and then with McLaren, which took him on in 2018 as a stop-gap after Matt Morris quit the team and James Key could not join because of contractual delays.

Fry led the team that produced this year’s McLaren but left after Key arrived. It remains to be seen what role he will take at Enstone, but the whisper is that he will not be replacing anyone and will work with technical director Nick Chester and executive director Marcin Budkowski as the team works to strengthen its engineering team.

This year, Renault has been somewhat shown up by the performance of Fry’s McLaren, which has highlighted the need for Renault to strengthen its chassis department. The hiring of Fry follows a restructuring of the team’s aerodynamic department, which was announced Friday.

https://autoweek.com/article/formula-one/pat-fry-returning-renault-f1-team

 

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Renault grabs Pat Fry

 

The word in the Formula 1 paddock at the United States Grand Prix is that Renault will soon announce that it has hired British engineer Pat Fry to lead the technical team at Enstone.

Fry left McLaren earlier this year after masterminding the team’s 2019 revival. It was always going to be a short-term role because McLaren had hired James Key to be Technical Director. Fry stayed on for a few months and then left.

It is not clear exactly what role Fry will take at Enstone, but it seems that he will work with Technical Director Nick Chester and Executive Director Marcin Budkowski.

Renault has been working hard in recent seasons to improve its engine performance but this year customer team McLaren has outshone the factory, indicating that the team should concentrate more on the chassis and aerodynamics. The team announced yesterday that it is revamping its aerodynamics department, but having Fry will give them a technical leader with a strong history and a great reputation.

For Fry (55) it will be a return to the team, where he worked at the start of his Formula 1 career, after he joined Pat Symonds’s research and development department at Witney in 1987, after seven years as an electronics design engineer on missile systems with Thorn EMI.

His primary role was to work on an active suspension system. He then became a race engineer in the early part of the Schumacher era before being lured away to McLaren in 1993 by former Benetton colleague Giorgio Ascanelli.

He would spend the next 17 years in Woking, initially as a race engineer before moving up to lead the design team of a couple of World Championship-winning cars, before he was hired by Ferrari in 2010.

He became Technical Director (chassis) in Maranello but was then moved aside in 2014 when James Allison joined the team. He became Engineering Director at Maranello for a year but then began working as an engineering consultant, initially with Manor F1 and then in 2018 he was taken on by McLaren to lead the design team of the 2019 car.

https://www.motorsportweek.com/joesaward/id/00575

O jes bejbi

Skuplja se jako lepa ekipa ljudi. Nadam se da nam neće drpiti Danijel Avokada

Edited November 2, 2019 by alpiner

[Radoye]

Prika vi se bas lepo pojacavate - a meni se svakim danom sve manje svidja sta se desava u i oko Meklarena...

[alpiner]

Ovo nam je najvažniji čovek kojeg je Cyril mogao da dovede od povratka cele ekipe. Važniji od Rićija

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Gordon Murray Pulled Apart His Personal Alpine A110 To See Why It’s So Good

 

Gordon Murray, the creative genius behind the iconic McLaren F1, wasn’t planning on benchmarking another car against the upcoming T.50 hypercar, but that changed when he had his personal Alpine A110 delivered to him.

 

Talking to Car Throttle, Murray confessed that he would originally use the 30,000 miles he’s done in a McLaren F1 as a point of reference for the development of the T.50 hypercar, which he labels the F1’s spiritual successor.

 

But then his Alpine A110 arrived and Murray felt more than impressed with the qualities of the French mid-engined sports car.

“A year ago I bought an Alpine A110, and it has the best ride and handling compromise of anything I’ve driven since the Lotus Evora, which was top of my list before this,” Murray said. “When you analyse that car [the A110] – and we did, we pulled mine apart for two months, we benchmarked it – that car’s got nothing trick on it. It just does the basics really well.”

That’s quite the praise for any car, especially if it comes from the man responsible for arguably the greatest supercar ever created. Murray’s Alpine has since apparently been put back together as he continues referring to it as his daily driver, together with a current Suzuki Jimny.

This isn’t the first time Murray used a personal car as a benchmark. In the past, he owned a Honda NSX for more than six years, which was used as a benchmark against the McLaren F1. The thinking was similar with the A110; Murray was so impressed by the Honda’s ride and handling, he pitched against the much more powerful McLaren in order to ensure the latter had the handling characteristics he was aiming for.

 

 

Edited December 21, 2019 by alpiner

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Ghosn kidnuo iz Japanskog zatvora za Liban. Ovo je filmska priča!!! 

 

Epska borba japanski fašizam v liberalni kapitalizam

Edited December 31, 2019 by alpiner