Alonso crash may impact Mclaren test

[Scott]

Apparently I saw it wrong...Alonso didn't hit Kimi according to them both. 

Further on the incident, it seems Mclaren hasn't got a spare of the new nose and other parts they had fitted on Alonso's car to compare the aero, which was going to be a big program for them in the test this week. 

http://www.pitpass.com/54149/No-further-action-on-AlonsoRaikkonen-clash

[John S]

It was always a funny shunt, no cameras really covering the cars properly at that point as it's a strange place to go off. During the live coverage FOM tried in vain to find definitive vid of the incident so nearly everyone had to guess until later on.

Post race interviews suggested that Kimi had started the whole thing off and Nando's contact was secondary and unavoidable. Always going to be called as a racing incident anyway, IMHO, it being on the first lap. 

On the real point of your post Scotty I'm inclined to think Macca are pulling our legs, why on earth would you run the one and only short front wing in the race anyway if you need it for back to back testing.   

Now if they were fighting for points at the front end there may be a good excuse to risk the one and only part in a race, but not when you beset by engine(sorry Power unit) problems, are hit by penalties on top, meaning you will probably never see the points finishers let alone score any. 

This ranks alongside the Merc gaff at Monaco if true. 

 

[Jericoke]

It was always a funny shunt, no cameras really covering the cars properly at that point as it's a strange place to go off. During the live coverage FOM tried in vain to find definitive vid of the incident so nearly everyone had to guess until later on.

Post race interviews suggested that Kimi had started the whole thing off and Nando's contact was secondary and unavoidable. Always going to be called as a racing incident anyway, IMHO, it being on the first lap. 

On the real point of your post Scotty I'm inclined to think Macca are pulling our legs, why on earth would you run the one and only short front wing in the race anyway if you need it for back to back testing.   

Now if they were fighting for points at the front end there may be a good excuse to risk the one and only part in a race, but not when you beset by engine(sorry Power unit) problems, are hit by penalties on top, meaning you will probably never see the points finishers let alone score any. 

This ranks alongside the Merc gaff at Monaco if true. 

 

McLaren has already earned points this year.  If they think more points are available, then why not go all out?

Besides, they could easily have a crash in testing, so if they ran the old bodywork in the race, then they'd have no data collected anyway.

[lkjohnson1950]

Kimi said he got a lot of wheelspin coming off the corner and it was similar to the problem that caught him out in Canada. Alonso said he was just trying to get by when Kimi lost it and slid into him.