Yes, it's true.
Virgin have designed their car with a fuel tank that's too small to complete some races.
Including this weekend's Australian GP.
So if they can overcome their reliability issues, it's doubtful whether they can finish the race anyway.
They're hoping to have a new design in place by Turkey which is race 7.
Did they misinterpret the data from Cosworth or just get their sums wrong?
It seems like a fairly fundamental error to make.
Nick Wirth had this to say: "At the time the design of the tank was locked down in June 2009, its capacity was determined by a number of factors, some of which have since changed, and the tank capacity now needs to be increased accordingly"
Which factors changed?
The rules and reg's haven't as far as I am aware, neither has the Cosworth engine.
I'm pretty sure also that the race distances are about the same too, give or take a hundred metres here or there.
Curious.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/82374
Virgin have designed their car with a fuel tank that's too small to complete some races.
Including this weekend's Australian GP.
So if they can overcome their reliability issues, it's doubtful whether they can finish the race anyway.
They're hoping to have a new design in place by Turkey which is race 7.
Did they misinterpret the data from Cosworth or just get their sums wrong?
It seems like a fairly fundamental error to make.
Nick Wirth had this to say: "At the time the design of the tank was locked down in June 2009, its capacity was determined by a number of factors, some of which have since changed, and the tank capacity now needs to be increased accordingly"
Which factors changed?
The rules and reg's haven't as far as I am aware, neither has the Cosworth engine.
I'm pretty sure also that the race distances are about the same too, give or take a hundred metres here or there.
Curious.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/82374