KTR @ Hockenheim

Roly Vincini (Joel Camathias's engineer) was not at the Hockenheim test! Could it be that he is gone for good or just on holiday? It might explain why the team were struggling with times a bit. Although Frank is a perfectly competent up to date engineer and the team is more than capable of winning races. Frank would have to be Super Man to engineer 2 cars efficiently during a 2 day test. Or Maybe it's just done a head job on the drivers?

Is Roly that good?

He's good at talking!

The reason why Bas Leinders his times weren't so good were because of a crack in the monocoque that kept getting bigger as the day progressed. Probably caused by his little run-in with Haberfeld in Monaco.

Good Job it was only a 2 day test, otherwise he may have fallen out!

Wow - was the hole that big? Was the car getting wider? If so, would it not be against the regulations to run it?

On a more serious note, how about the ethics of the situation? If the chassis was structurally compromised enough to effect performance (as is suggested), what if Bas had had an accident, and the weakness had failed? I don't know the exact circumstances but from the facts presented it doesn't seem a very responsible thing to do.

Well, does anyone know how many laps Bas Leinders drove the second day? I can understand that they find damage at the monocoque and don't know how it will evolve. So they see at the end of the first day it's got -a little?- bigger. So why still run the second day?
Okay competitions' hard and you've go to test but to what extend?

To Paddock Spy:

> Wow - was the hole that big? Was the car getting wider? If so, >would it not be against the regulations to run it?

Normally, the F3000 and F.Nippon teams only have the two cars they used for all races. On many cases they must repair the chassis and put it in conditions to be perfectly for the next race. On other cases they finally bought a new (or old and unused) chassis to put it in conditions to next races. One good case about that is one what happened at Team Astromega last year. Fabrice Walfisch feel the chassis was worse among others and had many shunts with it. Astromega finally acceed to his problem and bought to team Draco the same chassis he raced the previous year to solve it. But Walfisch didn't perform so better because that the team finally fired him and joined Goossens.

The reason KTR and Bas leinders is that he damaged his monocoque in Monaco. In Hockenheim it only got worse. I do not not believe that Roly Vincini has anything to do with it. He was(is) the engineer of Camathias and I think he will only performe better without him. You can read it also on the website of Bas Leinders.


The Fan

Guys, they were obviously not talking about a 10-inch crack :-)

Just a tiny little crack wich wasn't supposed to be important, but as Bas couldn't do flying pole laps anymore (even with the old setups) they noticed the crack had become a tiny little bit bigger and was probably the cause of the slower lap-times.

They have 4 weeks to fix it, no worries..

Do I take it that Rumple and Paddock Spy are not Roly fans?

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