On 31st January, BMW Sauber F1 rolled out its 2010 F1 car called the C29 at the Ricardo Tormo race track in Cheste, a place nearby Valencia(Spain) for its official Formula One test drive.
As per the sixth place achieved by this team in the last year’s constructors’ standings, this year the team will be served with a starting point in the new season,inspiring them for a hungrier and leaner focus over the new season despite the fact that the budget and the amount of manpower will be reduced this year. This will demand a wider and creative thinking along with increased level of efficiency.
Driver Kamui Kobakashi (23) performed well in two Grand Prix in 2009 and has already made his first World Championship Points firming his place in 2010 driver line-up. While De La Rosa (38) with his 71 Grand Prix races brings experience to the team with his previous records for setting fastest laps and podium finishes.
The teams’s technical director Willy Rampf said that C29 has been built on the experiences gained by the team in the previous year. Significant changes have been made to the car’s design as per the requirements for this year’s Grand prix, with larger fuel tank and reduced width of front tyres. these changes demands more weight to be shifted to the rear wheels reason being that the overall car has grown longer and slimmer as well.
Eye-catching features of the car include the highly intricate shape of the nose which is raised unlike the previous model and an extremely long undercut the the point of transition from chassis into underbody. Another feature is the double diffuser at the rear and these and other aerodynamic changes ensure optimum airflow into the diffuser. Consequently further changes were made as the car has been engined by Ferrari to integrate the Ferrari engine as well as the Ferrari Gear Box.
