{"id":2401,"date":"2010-02-12T07:15:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T12:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2401"},"modified":"2010-02-12T07:11:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T12:11:55","slug":"newey-doubts-virgins-no-wind-tunnel-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/newey-doubts-virgins-no-wind-tunnel-route\/","title":{"rendered":"Newey doubts Virgin&#8217;s no wind tunnel route"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Adrian Newey has waded into the debate about Virgin&#8217;s decision to design its 2010 car without using a wind tunnel.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Virgin rival Lotus&#8217; team boss Tony Fernandes recently doubted Nick Wirth&#8217;s wisdom in deciding to pen the VR-01 with only the aid of computational fluid dynamics (CFD).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am from the aviation business, mate.\u00a0 You can&#8217;t.\u00a0 You&#8217;ve got to have a wind tunnel,&#8221; Fernandes said.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin, whose designer also penned the 1994 Simtek car, had to stop testing at Jerez on Thursday when the car&#8217;s front wing broke off.<\/p>\n<p>When Timo Glock returned to the pits, he confided that he had run over a kerb prior to the failure.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull&#8217;s Newey, regarded as arguably the best car designer in F1, admitted that CFD-only design has &#8220;pitfalls&#8221; when compared with combining the tool with wind tunnels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How well it (the Virgin car) turns out, we shall see,&#8221; said the Briton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a different route, and my personal belief is that you still need to combine the two at the moment.\u00a0 But maybe their car will go very well and I will have to revise my opinion,&#8221; added Newey.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Newey has waded into the debate about Virgin&#8217;s decision to design its 2010 car without using a wind tunnel. \u00a0 Virgin rival Lotus&#8217; team boss Tony Fernandes recently doubted Nick Wirth&#8217;s wisdom in deciding to pen the VR-01 with only the aid of computational fluid dynamics (CFD).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[396,704,5262,306,62,119],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2402,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions\/2402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}