2009 Formula Nippon

J.Morelli · PostPosted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 2:18 am

Formula Nippon is too japanese LOL.

No, seriously now, I didn't like the new cars and the front wing doesnt make any sense to me, to the performance point view.

Joe A · PostPosted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 2:36 am

I personally like the new cars. Interesting looking front wing, and a cool concept on the roll hoop.

Bennoo · PostPosted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:36 am

great cars... :thumbsup:

nice to see some flames! thanks for the videos swede9

Lucasjeha · PostPosted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:50 am

J.Morelli wrote:

Formula Nippon is too japanese LOL.

No, seriously now, I didn't like the new cars and the front wing doesnt make any sense to me, to the performance point view.

Actually the new cars will have better performance than the old ones, unfortunatelly the tests were hit by rain and snow in almost everyday, so they had only a few chances to develop the setup and run faster laps, anyway they beat the Formula Nippon record at Fuji with a 1.23 time

Ospi · PostPosted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 11:56 am

That front wing must reduce the drag caused by the wheels substantially i would say, my god would I love to see the CFD work of that car.

noikeee · PostPosted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 6:24 pm

verde20074 wrote:

Lucasjeha wrote:

Formula Nippon 2009 Season Tests Twin Ring Motegi

March 13th 2009

01 - Andre Lotterer - 1:33.917
02 - Tsugio Matsuda - 1:34.095
03 - Takashi Kogure - 1:34.141
04 - Loic Duval - 1:34.173
05 - Hiroaki Ishiura - 1:34.235
06 - Benoit Treluyer - 1:34.322
07 - Kohei Hirate - 1:34.503
08 - Takuya Izawa - 1:34.574
09 - Kodai Tsukakoshi - 1:34.731
10 - Richard Lyons - 1:35.081
11 - Keisuke Kunimoto - 1:35.240
12 - Yuji Tachikawa - 1:35.440
13 - Kazuya Oshima - 1:35.749

I thought that both Kunimoto and Oshima would try a career in Europe after their superb performances in F3, specially in Macau.

Oshima did F3 Euroseries last year and was kind of a failure.

Lucasjeha · PostPosted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:17 pm

Unfortunatelly the world crisis hit Japan badly, and Formula Nippon is suffering with this problems, the grid for 2009 season will have only those 13 drivers that are in the results of the tests.

swede9 · PostPosted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 5:44 pm

Some Pictures from Fuji on Friday. The cars only run on Saturday & Sunday this year.

vince · PostPosted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 8:22 pm

More I see of this car the more i like it. Especially in the petronas scheme

noikeee · PostPosted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 8:25 pm

I still can't get over how that wing ruins the car. I even like the new F1 cars better (the Brawn particularly is 500 times better looking than that monster).

Jan_83 · PostPosted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 9:12 pm

Yes. One of the ugliest cars ever.

Misterfreeman87 · PostPosted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:00 pm

I love it. :thumbsup:

kart99 · PostPosted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:50 pm

Not too sure what I make of the shape, although It might grow on me.

daallo · PostPosted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:26 am

bigears wrote:

Lucasjeha wrote:

Those lights are signs of how much times the drivers used the "power boost" or "push to pass" any name can be used, they are introducing this system this season, the driver have the right to use it 5 times during the race, and every time he uses one of his boosts one of the lights turn off, so we can know how much times they have yet just looking at the car

A very good idea there. Making it visual for the paying spectators and TV viewers alike.

Great idea, and the cars look really nice!!!

swede9 · PostPosted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 4:36 pm

Great video of the cars going by a Tour Bus going around Fuji, all while it's snowing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE_bkcuM ... re=related

aerogi · PostPosted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 4:47 pm

great looking cars! The only thing I find ugly is the roll bar. But perhaps the idea behind it with the lights will work and be an interesting fact during the races.

mew · PostPosted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:05 pm

Beautiful car! Reminds me of the good old Champcar Reynards that everyone keeps crying after

I wish we could get some coverage in Northern Europe......

Jyllenberg · PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 7:33 pm

swede9 wrote:

Great video of the cars going by a Tour Bus going around Fuji, all while it's snowing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE_bkcuM ... re=related

I really like the sound :thumbsup:

swede9 · PostPosted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 4:44 pm

tick-tock · PostPosted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:36 pm

Those links aren't working - it looks like copying and pasting has missed out whatever goes where the "..." is

Edit: but I found the original post you referred to.

TBK-Light.com

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