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Old 08-15-2007, 06:16 PM
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Originally Posted by rayxi
Even if the wind tunnel vendor messed up the calibration Honda should have caught it early. It's one thing for the vendor to calibrate but the end user still needs to verify the calibration regularly by running a standard model in the wind tunnel before doing testing on the actual car/model. Maybe they do things differently in F1 compared to the general scientific community.
Did you read past the second sentence? Even still, the fact that they say many structural components will have to be replaced indicates there's something bad going on other than just calibration.

I don't give a damn how they do it.. let them try to do it with just cfd if they want.. as long as they're competitive.

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Originally Posted by vinuneuro
Would've still expected them to figure this out closer to the beginning of the season though. They just doesn't have enough Japanese staff in their Britain based team :p.
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