The 2012 Formula One Season

Apparently Rory Byrne has also had some influence on the design as well.

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X (@ed24f1)

danm Wrote:
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> Alleged sketches of the 2012 Ferrari... lots of
> McLaren and RedBull influences!
>
> Pull rod suspension, dipped sidepods, exploiting
> the safety impact area rules and creating winglets
> in front of the sidepod.
>
> Clever. They must be at make it or break it
> point!
>
> Pull rod was last seen on the 2000 Arrows/Minardi
> from 2001 - coincidently driven by Alonso.
>
> If this pushes Ferrari back up to the top, we
> could very well see low noses once again! Yippee!

What are those horrible winglets in front of the cockpit? Hope they don't become the norm this season

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Races: 163 - Wins: 23 - Pole Positions: 24 - Fastest Laps: 22
Season 9: Constructors' Champions

Does anyone know of all the cars reveal dates? So far i can only find 4... Mclaren 1st Feb, Red Bull 6th Feb, Caterham 26th Jan, Marussia 21st Feb. Any others been revealed?

Also i didnt realise the Marussia would be the only team running without KERS this season? Surely that would hurt them in the fight with HRT and possibly Caterham?

+1 to what Dan said too...

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truecrysis Wrote:
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> Does anyone know of all the cars reveal dates? So
> far i can only find 4... Mclaren 1st Feb, Red Bull
> 6th Feb, Caterham 26th Jan, Marussia 21st Feb. Any
> others been revealed?

Force India and Ferrari are revealing their cars on the 3rd, Lotus on the 5th and Sauber on the 6th.

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What's a pull-rod suspension?? (Non-mechanical type here)

loque Wrote:
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> What's a pull-rod suspension?? (Non-mechanical
> type here)

Dunno if this will help you but it helped me understand: [scarbsf1.wordpress.com]

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It did, thanks. So basically, diagonal bits, lol

Possibly slightly off-topic, but I thought F1 fans would be interested to hear the latest news on Rubens Barrichello...

This is a direct quote from his good friend & Indycar driver, Tony Kanaan's Twitter feed...

"As we couldn't keep a secret anymore @rubarrichello will be testing for us. Very proud he can help @kvracing and myself with his feedback".

Go Rubhino! I hope that he finds a drive somewhere that satisfies his obvious passion for racing, soon.

Although i'm sure that he once promised his wife that he'd never race on an oval... So maybe Indycar is not for him... :-/

Apologies if this is too far off-topic!

Yeah, I've read about this in the last day or so as well, Rubens seemingly with a good chance of going away to race in the USA. I guess if he wants to carry on his career in single seaters and also keep a race seat that'll be the way forward.

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Pushrod/Pullrod variations basically determine where you mount the suspension from (iirc).

When high noses became the fashion, push-rod was the favoured, because it could be mounted higher up, and everything sat tightly higher up the car, above the driver legs.

New regs mean that the noses are lower (like before), and thus the suspension can be mounted lower down (such as below the drivers legs).

If you mounted a pullrod suspension on a high nose car, the aero would be all over the place and it'd look a mess.


Jenson drives it like he owns it; Lewis drives it like he stole it

**Taylor** Wrote:
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> Possibly slightly off-topic, but I thought F1 fans
> would be interested to hear the latest news on
> Rubens Barrichello...
>
> This is a direct quote from his good friend &
> Indycar driver, Tony Kanaan's Twitter feed...
>
> "As we couldn't keep a secret anymore
> @rubarrichello will be testing for us. Very proud
> he can help @kvracing and myself with his
> feedback".
>
> Go Rubhino! I hope that he finds a drive somewhere

I suppose he could do a campaign in which he just contested the road courses, much like Bourdais did last year.
> that satisfies his obvious passion for racing,
> soon.
>
> Although i'm sure that he once promised his wife
> that he'd never race on an oval... So maybe
> Indycar is not for him... :-/
>
> Apologies if this is too far off-topic!

Lotus chassis is now the E20, dropping the Rxx from previous years.

Last year's car was called the R31, in accordance with Renault's numbering tradition, but with the name-change to Lotus for 2012, the team has decided to honour the factory staff by naming the new car E20 - 'E' for Enstone.

The '20' is a reference to the fact the new single seater is the twentieth made at Enstone since the then Benetton team relocated in 1992. The E20 will be revealed on February 5, the day before Kimi Raikkonen debuts it at Jerez on the eve of the opening 2012 group test.

That breaks a long pattern of naming, as even Benetton and Toleman used a similar naming pattern to what Renault did back into the 1980s.

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X (@ed24f1)

True, but I don't think that's a bad thing, since it's no longer really recognisable from when it was the Benetton team anyway, there have been so many changes.

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Check this from Craig Scarborough.

If that's any where near accurate then it's a impressive photoshop effort. But it shows that the nose/tub isn't quite as hilariously ugly as perhapps first feared.

Bored with the Caterham now I want to see the Ferrari.

Some of us are scarred with the Caterham!

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It looks lovely from above.

*sick inside*




Jenson drives it like he owns it; Lewis drives it like he stole it