This is Marussia Virgin’s 2011 Formula 1 contender, the MVR-02 which is being launched at the BBC Television Centre in London. As you can see, the car’s livery is heavily inspired by its predecessor. The previous car was called the VR-01 with the VR standing for Virgin Racing. The M alphabet in the new car came about following a recent equity purchase by Russian-based Marussia Motors.
Starting from this year, the team will race under the Russian license as it is en route to becoming a full-fledged Russian outfit. This means that if a Marussia Virgin driver wins a race, the Russian national anthem will be played.
The team ran an interim car during the recent tests in Valencia, Spain with drivers Timo Glock and Jerome d’Ambrosio. The MVR-02 is powered by Cosworth’s CA2011 2.4 litre V8 powerplant and the car has been designed entirely using CFD or Computational Fluid Dynamics. Continue reading to view more images of the MVR-02.
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Top 3 (in no particular order) for liveries is Team Lotus, Mercedes GP Petronas, and Marrusia Virgin Racing I think…
For the best liveries I meant to say, for this season…
CFD is a great tool in designing an aerodynamically vehicle. It enables the designers to design & test out quickly without having to built the actual car. The real car is built only when all the aerodynamics design parameters are satisfied. That saves the cost & the result of CFD compared to wind tunnel testing is almost similar.
Agreed and used very effectively used in aerospace industry to design airplanes. However in racing, particular open wheeled cars like F1, the surfaces are very complex with very complicated flow structures. For that CFD still has it’s limitations. In some conditions CFD is very effective but in other conditions the use of windtunnel is more effective. Thats why all F1 teams rely on both windtunnel and CFD. Never one or the other. However as CFD simulation improves and computing power continues to get better, I’m sure a tipping point will occur where CFD rules
Looks similar to Midlands F1 car though from some time back…
yes, it is true… at least the color scheme… red & black color
It just struck me. Virgin Racing is another F1 team enjoying Malaysian money. Their sponsor QNET is Malaysian based. Also known ass QI, Questnet, Quest International, GoldQuest. So actually FOUR F1 teams are supported by Malaysia. Wow!
Yeah, Dato Vijay Eswaran’s right?
Yup, thats the name. Remember it because he was infamously on the front page of local papers 2-3 years ago for being arrested in Jakarta by the Indonesian govt.
Nice car…however I think Mclaren has the best aero design….hope the team can score more than 50 points…hahaha
Mike Gascoyne of Team Lotus, who got a PhD in CFD from Cambridge, still have his reservations about relying on CFD 100%. Maybe MVR-02 team can prove him wrong? We can see the results in March.