Pure Racing VR-01: Suggested for a really initial time
If you were one of a thousands of fans who surfed over to Virgin Racing’s website the other day awaiting to watch a live reveal of a team’s very initial Regulation One automobile, you were expected unhappy. Technical glitches prevented a webcast from starting live upon report, but we’ll chalk a silicon snafu up to opening night jitters. That’s understandable, yet, since Virgin Racing is one of multiform new teams that proposed from scratch this year to stickon a F1 grid.
After flirting with Brawn GP sponsorship final deteriorate, Richard Branson’s Pure group took over the start-up team previously wellknown as Manor Motorsport. Powered by Cosworth, former Toyota F1 driver Timo Glock wi ll team up with rookie Lucas di Grassi, who finished at the back of Glock in a 2007 GP2 Series.
Webcast aside, the Pure VR-01 is the technological achievement in its own right. It’s a first F1 automobile written wholly upon mechanism – using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) processors – with no models built for wind hovel aerodynamic contrast. The distinguished car – in red and black with the tribal-style tattoo pattern – is heading to Silverstone for its first shakedown before fasten the subsequent group test at Jerez. Hopefully the webcast will be their usually glitch in taking on a determined teams As well as a other newcomers) in what’s moulding up to be the many exciting F1 deteriorate in decades.
Gallery:2010 Virgin Racing VR-01
[Source: Pure Racing]
