Spyker to Launch New Car at Nürburgring

Spyker's technical chief Mike Gascoyne announced that his team will be ready to use the updated B-spec car by the German Grand Prix on the 20th - 22nd of July. Initially scheduled for the end of August, the modified version of the F8 VII will consist of a car that will have underwent a series of updates starting from the Barcelona event in May.

“We’re bringing the car forward to Germany. It’s less of an update because we’re doing more updates earlier. The Malaysia package wasn’t originally planned, and we’re doing some parts for Barcelona, and hopefully there will be a package for Monaco. So we’re doing more sooner, which is good”, explained Gascoyne.

He also elaborated on how the Spyker car will look like in mid-July: “It’s a new rear end, new gearbox, new radiator layout, new bodywork, and so on. Everyone’s working hard. We already know that aerodynamically it will be a fairly major step, and there will be a big improvement in the stability of the rear of the car. We’re going from rotary to linear dampers; when I was at Toyota we found that change to be a big step forward in terms of controlling the rear of the car. So we’re pretty confident that we’ll make progress”.

Also, the Spyker technical chief revealed that the new revamped wind tunnel will be ready to go in 2-weeks time: “We’re now running in Lola in the UK and Aerolab in Italy, but within the next couple of weeks our new tunnel should switch on. It’ll need a couple of weeks of commissioning, and then it will be running 24/7. So there are a lot of positive things for us”.

Spyker's has been struggling to get both of its drivers to the finish line in all previous races of the 2007 season. Unfortunately for the Dutch team, they only succeeded once, in the Bahrain GP. In season's opener at Melbourne, rookie Adrian Sutil was the only Spyker driver to finish the race (17th place), while the Malaysian event saw both the German and team-mate Christijan Albers out of the race after only 7 laps.