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The equipment Racing Jaguar has presented/displayed its new creature, the R4, with which it will dispute season 2003 of Formula 1. The newness of the ceremony is that the launching became by Internet.
The R4 is more conventional and less revolutionary than the R3 of 2002, but basically it is the same design. Green the continuous one being its predominant color, with the detail of Jaguar in target in the fairing.
The set of Milton the Keyneses will use the motor Cosworth CR-5 V10 of 90 degrees. It was decided to change the degrees from 90 habitual to the 72 to improve the center of gravity of the car. The vice-president of Ford, Richard Parry Jones, explained the changes done to the new Cosworth motor.
“This car has a new suspension, far better, but the differences are in the motor. New Cosworth CR5 has a radical design, with a abierto good angle so that to be able to lower the center of gravity of the car”, Parry Jones said.
The equipment of the jumping cat also presented/displayed to its sponsors that for this year they will be HSBC, AT&T, Beck's, EDS, Michelin, DuPont, I castrate, HP.
The people in charge of this car are their Executive Director and designer (David Pitchforth), the person in charge of the aerodynamics department (Horseradish tree Agathangelou), their person in charge of design (Rob Taylor) and their person in charge of vehicle yield (Mark Gillan).
Pitchforth was the one in charge to make a self-criticism of the R3 and to explain the characteristics of the R4.
“We have learned the lesson of the year last with the R3 and although we began the season with a little competitive car, we ended in the end it a much more satisfactory single-seater and helped that us in the development of the new R4. Considering the experience of the R3, we have chosen not to make no type of revolution with the R4. We have preferred to follow a design conventional, with less irrigations and more surely with the aim of applying the modifications more successful than we introduced in the R3 the past season. Although it can be obvious, we have bet by a car that is trustworthy and competitive from the beginning, not as happened the last year to us, that stops when the R3 began to practically work had finished the season. For this season we have decided on a maximum and constant aerodynamic development in the car, combined with a great stability of the package. Horseradish tree Agathangelou has done a great work in this sense and the benefits of our wind tunnel are evident. Also certain that the past year we were incapable to extract the maximum yield to the Michelin tires, and the importance is given that the rubbers have at the moment, this winter we have closely been working with them to try to adapt rubbers to the design of the single-seater”, said Pitchforth.
For the season 2003 Jaguar will change of alignment of pilots. As much Eddie Irvine as Pedro of the Rose has been replaced by the Australian Mark Webber and the Brazilian Antonio Pizzonia.
“I am very trusting with the car and the equipment, is an opportunity by which I hoped kill a time. This will be the first time that I have an equipment that is preparing a car thinking about the opinions of the pilots. This year will be difficult, but I trust that we are taking a step forwards after the worries that the last year supported to the equipment”, said Webber.
“I am waiting for one season difficult, all we will have much work. I must much learn, but he will be interesting and I am anxious to begin”, said Pizzonia.
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