On Feb 20, 1:49 pm, Alexandre
yahoo.com> wrote:> On Feb 20, 6:15 am, Bob Dubery
gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Feb 20, 3:52 am, Alexandre
yahoo.com> wrote:>>> Simply detune the engine.
>
>>> Alonso knows a lot about detuned engines. Just remember the last 3
>>> races of last season. He should be a master by now of driving F1 cars
>>> with detuned engines. All courtesy of senor Dennis (the +.4 sec.per
>>> lap magician).
>
>> Simple arithmetic tells us that Fred was still .2 seconds to the good
>> then.
>
>> But really, it's not quite a simple as you suggest. Ron doesn't get
>> his hands dirty on the engines anymore, and the engines are supplied
>> by Merc anyway.
>
> It's more simple than I suggest. It's done by laptop and it requires
> the amount of time needed to input a simple parameter into the
> computer. The first time Alonso's engine was detuned was in between q2
> and q3 of qualification for a race that will remain nameless for now.
> That's how simple it is.
Well there were mutterings in some quarters after quallies in Brazil.
But this article
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/21102007/13/alonso-vows-push-impossible-prize.html
is interesting in this regard.
[quote starts]
One newspaper quoted an unnamed engineer as explaining that McLaren
could easily have de-tuned the reigning world champion's Mercedes-Benz
engine so that it was three or four tenths slower than Hamilton in
qualifying.
"I am not going to create more controversy," he told Diario As after
emerging as the slowest McLaren or Ferrari runner in the decisive
session on Saturday.
"The story is that we are all very close, and you can easily be a
little bit behind.
"It has not been a brilliant weekend for me. I did not master the car
in any of the sessions."
[quote ends]
Didn't master his car. Didn't have a brilliant weekend.
Oh dear.
