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02-06-2013, 02:49 PM
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This is the penultimate car launch of the 2013 season, the Marussia (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/marussia/) MR02. The fourth car built by the team that was known as Virgin in its first two Formula One (http://www.autoblog.com/tags/formula+one/) seasons is said to be a "comprehensive evolution" of last year's car. Produced under the eye of Pat Symonds, he of The Renault (http://www.autoblog.com/category/renault/) Affair at the Singapore Grand Prix in 2008, the chassis is a product of CFD and wind tunnel work through a technical partnership with McLaren (http://autoblog.com/mclaren), and its Cosworth (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/cosworth/) engine is aided by a two-year-old Kinetic Energy Recovery System (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/kers/) purchased from Williams. It's the first time the team has used KERS on one of its cars.
Out back is a Coanda exhaust, otherwise there's nothing exotic about a car just looking to score the team's first Constructor's points. With no major change in regulations, the car probably won't have the usual early-season opportunities to take advantage of big-team misfortunes, but the MR01 was quite a reliable runner, so the addition of KERS could make the difference this year between one point and none among the backmarkers.Continue reading Marussia launches KERS-equipped MR02 (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/02/06/marussia-launches-kers-equipped-mr02/)
Marussia launches KERS-equipped MR02 (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/02/06/marussia-launches-kers-equipped-mr02/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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This is the penultimate car launch of the 2013 season, the Marussia (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/marussia/) MR02. The fourth car built by the team that was known as Virgin in its first two Formula One (http://www.autoblog.com/tags/formula+one/) seasons is said to be a "comprehensive evolution" of last year's car. Produced under the eye of Pat Symonds, he of The Renault (http://www.autoblog.com/category/renault/) Affair at the Singapore Grand Prix in 2008, the chassis is a product of CFD and wind tunnel work through a technical partnership with McLaren (http://autoblog.com/mclaren), and its Cosworth (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/cosworth/) engine is aided by a two-year-old Kinetic Energy Recovery System (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/kers/) purchased from Williams. It's the first time the team has used KERS on one of its cars.
Out back is a Coanda exhaust, otherwise there's nothing exotic about a car just looking to score the team's first Constructor's points. With no major change in regulations, the car probably won't have the usual early-season opportunities to take advantage of big-team misfortunes, but the MR01 was quite a reliable runner, so the addition of KERS could make the difference this year between one point and none among the backmarkers.Continue reading Marussia launches KERS-equipped MR02 (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/02/06/marussia-launches-kers-equipped-mr02/)
Marussia launches KERS-equipped MR02 (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/02/06/marussia-launches-kers-equipped-mr02/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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