A Six-Wheel Lotus???

The double floor on the '92 Ferrari and the Walrus nose on the '04 FW26 Williams were also interesting concepts. Neither worked that well.

Was CVT really innovative?

DAF had it for years before Williams tried it in F1.

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I did say "innovative to motor-racing or F1" ... I mean turbos were hardly innovative outside of F1 either, were they?

Mike, I wouldn't say the walrus nose was innovative. It just looked (very) different. The idea was the same as twin-keel.

You also called it a "truly innovative idea to strike an F1 designer"

A look at the history shows that it was not

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Fair enough, I stand corrected.

gav Wrote:
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> Mike, I wouldn't say the walrus nose was
> innovative. It just looked (very) different. The
> idea was the same as twin-keel.


Yes of course it was not innovative but it was an interesting (and ugly!) concept based on the twin keel idea.

Does anybody knows if exist a Ferrari 312 T8 with ¡8 Wheels! ????????????????????

read teh link in one of my posts on teh first page. one was drawn as a concept but never built

Sim

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gav Wrote:
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> Fugly it may be, but these latest things are
> hardly suave, are they? Most of us would prefer a
> good noise to a great looking car, but give me
> innovation over both any day.
>
> When was the last truly innovative idea to strike
> an F1 designer? Twin-keel is about as good as it's
> been in recent years. I'd say the last was the CVT
> gearbox, which also didn't run in anger.
>
> We've seen rear-engined cars being laughed at,
> out-board brakes, individual engines for each
> wheel, engines stitched together, 7 foot wings
> (only 5 foot at the front...), skirts and ground
> effects, 4 wheel drive, 4 wheel steering, enclosed
> wheels, the schumacher chin, that CVT gearbox,
> engines a stressed member of the chassis, cars
> made from about 8,000,000% magnesium, cars made
> from wood, coffins made by Colin Chapman, fan
> cars, computer operated suspension, perhaps
> traction control and turbo engines... all of it
> innovative to motor-racing or F1, some it even
> caught on. I can't think of anything in the last
> 15 years though.


that's the best one.

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chet Wrote:
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> wow, never knew of a 6wheeled lotus...
>
> I knew after the tyrell alot of teams decided to
> experiement... but I only knew of Williams who
> actually ran theirs on track..

Keke Rosberg in the Six-wheeled Williams at Paul Ricard



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We might as well discuss it. I just can't see that doing anything but understeer. It set some awesome times, but I can't work out how. You could say "the front tyres are awesome", but it used front tyres at the rear, 4 times, so that doesn't work. I can't even blame the turbo era (as they still used the DFV) that such an unbalanced chassis, in theory, could give an overall advantage on the track.