gav Wrote:
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> Juliooo, Did you also shrink Massa's head? It
> looks spookily small.
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> The downfall of the Ferrari is that what they are
> trying to do is design suspension geometry that is
> rigged to the chassis at a point that is higher
> than the nose itself, therefore they had to raise
> the nose to an unnatural point. It could have been
> as easy as making the nose a little bigger. But
> no.
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> The suspension has nothing to do with the nose.
> This year, the bulkhead (the front of the
> chassis, the bit you see the nose being screwed
> into when a driver needs to change his front wing)
> has one maximum height, while the nose cone has a
> different maximum height, lower than that of the
> bulkhead. The general consensus for 2012 seems to
> be that most of the teams will apparently want to
> the keep both the nose and the bulkhead height as
> high as possible in order to have more control
> over the air under the nose, something that's been
> important for the past decade, but which seems to
> have grown in significance dramatically since the
> 2009 regulations.
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> McLaren have taken a different approach, but we
> knew before the Caterham launched what most teams
> were likely to do. The Ferrari looks especially
> hideous, but that's because they've gone for a
> rigid step, while the other two so far appear to
> have gone for a more gradual approach (both of
> which looked awful until the Ferrari came along,
> but now don't appear too bad!).
I'll add some figures to this: the nose has a maximum height of 55cm, but the bulkhead is allowed to be 62.5 cm. According to Scarbs, there will be a maximum nose height of 25cm in 2014 (edging towards the Brawn car?)
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