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Chaparral 3J

100" wide 200"long 14psi = 125 tons downforce

F-1 rocket engine 1.52 million lbf.

Wouldn't want to be slipstreaming it.

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Marko didn't accuse Ferrari of anything. He just said they had something similar on their car. What does similar mean? It could mean it was the same colour as the RB's, or made from the same material, or was a similar shape but different proportions, or similar proportions but different shape.

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Christian Horner is someone I think of as honest and the same for Adrian Newey. I dont blame them for any of the other issues - I blame the FIA for not running a tight enough ship. The hand-adjustable suspension is hard to explain. Surely it has to be larger and therefore heavier to be hand-adjustab...

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I dont see why they would use it to cool the hydraulics unless that was part of the way it was made to blow the rear wing.

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I'm sure Christian could find a little old lady somewhere who couldn't adjust it by hand - if he had to - so it wasn't necessarily illegal perhaps by the wording of the rules.

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It would seem to be difficult to get it to work exactly when you want - like a switch. If it works gradually more with speed, you are reducing downforce and speed in the corners. Ideally you only want it to work on a straight, but on a fast corner you dont want it to work, so is the rear suspension ...

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I think Horner is right. If you can get away with putting things on the car and collecting points why wouldn't you? RBR knew that things were supposed to require tools to adjust but they designed it in a way that it could also be adjusted by hand. No-one ever reported seeing them adjust it by hand s...

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Except they aren't allowed to produce more efficient engines, or suspension, or aero shapes. Which I see as another problem they should fix. They want to make F1 more relevant to get more manufacturers interested, but they drive around on tracks that have to be like billiard tables. More efficient ...

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Pushing the boundaries of what words mean is not engineering. Getting an advantage as a result of winning an argument about what the range of meanings of a sequence of words is, is not what I think of as a great innovation. Producing a more efficient engine, or suspension, or aerodynamic shape - tha...

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I think the FIA have to put a team together to write the rules and ensure the rules are being adhered to. The rules have to be watertight, so for example, if you dont want them to use the exhaust for aerodynamics, tell them exactly where at at what angle you want the exhaust to exit. It will cut do...

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I think the FIA have to put a team together to write the rules and ensure the rules are being adhered to. The rules have to be watertight, so for example, if you dont want them to use the exhaust for aerodynamics, tell them exactly where at at what angle you want the exhaust to exit. It will cut do...

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I think the FIA have to put a team together to write the rules and ensure the rules are being adhered to. The rules have to be watertight, so for example, if you dont want them to use the exhaust for aerodynamics, tell them exactly where at at what angle you want the exhaust to exit. It will cut dow...

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The reason they got away with it seems to be that it is possible to interpret the text of the rules to allow what they have done. The rule may have been written to prevent such things, but apparently wasn't written tight enough. FIA fail again. The rule will probably have the text amended to make it...

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Its a help in that at least they have defined the significant overlap for a straight. It does give the guy behind an advantage as he can clearly see what is happening and the guy in front will find it difficult to judge where the other car is - and he is the guy who is supposed to be making the fine...

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Usually its about a 1 so it was very good for Valencia - 6. Mainly down to the tyres and strategies and a safety car and a couple of retirements, so the track itself is still rubbish. Just shows how much the show has been improved by the tweaks that a rubbish track can host an interesting grand prix...

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Get well soon Ant. Both lucky and unlucky. The car going airborne meant it didn't slow down as much as the Ferrari, but going in nose first was possibly an advantage. These high speed flips seem to be becoming more common, but I guess its not practical to design a parachute that could deploy well en...

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As I saw it, there were times in the second half of his chapionship year with Brawn where Barricello was the one coming up with the best car setup. I dont think Jenson has been brilliant at car setup or driving a car that handled badly. He is a very efficient driver and a good racer when he has the ...

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Good race. Somewhat saved by the tyre strategies because it was a bit processional at the start. It built up well though and would have been a closer finish if Ferrari had made the right call for the second stop. Good, deserved win for Hamilton and a bit of a bonus for him that Romain and Sergio too...

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It did seem slightly too easy in Canada, so I think it was not set up right. Canada is a circuit where overtaking is possible, but I dont mind there being another overtaking opportunity - providing it is an opportunity and not a certainty. They may need to tighten it a bit more next year. With KERS ...

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Well its working. I think that Alonso and Hamilton are the two best drivers on the grid. It makes sense for them to praise each other. I actually think what they say is largely true, but if they come to the fore as the top two and their rivalry becomes a focal point in F1 then its good for both of t...

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Nice race. Had to drive hard to stop Vettel getting away while looking after the tyres. Alonso did the same and jumped Lewis, but Lewis took his opportunity while Alonso was getting his tyres up to temperature and got in front (where he had to be to pull that gap needed to cover the second pitstop)....

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Last year during the engine mapping debacle, Red Bull argued that their engine mapping was designed to aid cooling of the engine. Maybe they are using it to reduce the radiator size to get a higher top speed?

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I dont see it as Red Bull's fault in that the design could have been interpreted as OK because you would have to have access to wind tunnel tests results and then make a judgement call about how much it affected the front wing. If they had the intake to the wheel high enough, they could do the cooli...

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The only driver I ever followed was Jo Siffert. A great character who struggled for many years to make it to the top. Former motorcycle racer and well known sports car racer, he was very fast and drove flat out all the time in F1 races. Just needed better cars. http://onthedash.com/docs/Siffert.shtml

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http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/06/03/the-red-bull-floor/ Joe Saward clarifies why there's no penalty: The Red Bull has not been declared illegal. The FIA Technical department has said that in its opinion the floor does not meet the rules as it interprets them. If red Bull wishes to go on using...

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.............. Gary Anderson explains it very well here, and gives another example of the twisted thinking of the FIA regarding what constitutes a hole. ................. He also said ; ".... protests are sad ...." "..... protests are wrong ....." and twice that he would instead " draw it to someon...

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Red Bull fit it because they believe it gives them a time advantage. They probably were able to measure an improvement in the wind tunnel. Gary Anderson explains it very well here, and gives another example of the twisted thinking of the FIA regarding what constitutes a hole. Despite what the title ...

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If Red Bull ran a car that had an advantage over the other cars because the other teams interpreted the rules correctly and Red Bull didn't, yet Red Bull get away with it, I dont see that as the ideal way to run the worlds top racing category. It may be a way that results in more innovation or quic...

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All this thread shows is that the vast majority of posts have no clue as to how the FIA regulate the sport. What looks at first glance as counter productive is an excellent method of governing innovation in a leading edge sport. When you have a sports direction and development governed by the regul...

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Seems to me that the FIA need to take responsibility for their own rules and adhere to them. They write the rules, so they should have a team of engineering and legal experts involved in drawing the rules up in the first place. Then the same team rules on what passes or doesn't pass. They are the FI...

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I think Hamilton is better this year because he is approaching it with more of a strategy to be world champion. He has kept his cool when the team have let him down and has been out-driving Button. His driving is comparable with Alonso - they are my top two drivers. This year Alonso has been excepti...

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I like the idea of the thread. The teams seem to be struggling to totally understand the tyres and so I dont expect to get more than a general understanding of what's going on. It seemed to me that some of the teams had cars which seemed good in pre-season testing and some were good in one of the fi...

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I said on another thread that they could split the track around the roundabout in Casino Square, or they could run the track on through the car park after the swimming pool and create an S-bend to create an overtaking opportunity before Rascasse.

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I'm hoping Whitmarsh is publicly saying what a team principal should say, but inside he knows that the team have been under-performing. They have made more than their fair share of tactical errors for years. Whether Whitmarsh himself is the problem I dont know. I like him, but he should have procedu...

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I like Monaco and I watched the race hoping for rain so that we could get some racing. The rain never came, so the lead driver was able to drive round 2 seconds off what he could do and still not be at risk of being overtaken, so naturally we had 6 drivers close together at the end. Sounds good, but...

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The other alternative is to create somewhere where they can overtake without having to be 4 seconds a lap faster, which has been discussed on threads before. All it requires is the will to do it and the money to spend. My preference would be to split the track around the roundabout in Casino Square....

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I've been impressed by Lewis this year in that he seems to have learned from last years collisions (which weren't all his fault) and he is keeping a cool head while still being able to drive the car very quickly and get it to work more often than Button. That Button is struggling so much lately show...

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The car was fast enough last year and it was up to Webber to adapt to driving it and he didn't. This year, Vettel hasn't done well in this qualifying but is leading the world championship and was taken out of one race where he was going to score good points, so I would say he's still doing OK. Butto...

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It was nice to see Schumi top the qualifying and nice to see what it meant to him. With his good starts, if he hadn't got the penalty from last race, he would have been VERY difficult to pass, and could have had a very convincing win. Now, if he wins, the newspapers will go crazy. As against that th...

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As far back as Prost at least, drivers have been driving to get to the finish of the race in the shortest time, not to get to the finish of that lap in the shortest time. In that respect this years driving is nothing new - just taken to more of an extreme. I liked the old days of the Lotus 49 and th...

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