theyre just trolling us with their fake car at this point lol
great renders! though just as a minor detail note, the wheel covers will be spinning with the wheel so the cutouts that are shown at the bottom wont work.
The worst thing about renders like these are, that guys on the internet does way better jobs than the teams themselves
Guys on the internet don't have the corporate types standing over them to do things a certain way.
There was regulations around this previously, I think that someone pointed out to me that it got scrapped during the 2009 regulation change.CMSMJ1 wrote: ↑05 Jan 2022, 13:03I'm struck when looking at these cars (and the last few series to be fair) just how much upper floor space there is and how small the sidepods are.
We all have a moan about long cars - perhaps there should be (as I am sure there used to be) a regulation to ensure that the sidepods are as big as the floor - and perhaps bring into the sides of the car some of the ancillary items that cause it to be so long.
We'd have more squat cars - shorter and with more individual looks to them...
I see what you are saying.cooken wrote: ↑05 Jan 2022, 15:14The sidepods have almost nothing to do with the length of the current cars. In the vicinity of the sidepods, we have the fuel tank, PU, and gearbox predominantly, and it is the length of these items that constrains the length of the floor in this region. None of these can really be moved off axis, so mandating wider sidepods would do little to nothing to combat car length in my opinion.
seeing as the point of the sidepod undercut is to encourage outwash i'd say that forcing no undercut over the first x distance of the sidepod might not be a bad idea.CMSMJ1 wrote: ↑05 Jan 2022, 13:03I'm struck when looking at these cars (and the last few series to be fair) just how much upper floor space there is and how small the sidepods are.
We all have a moan about long cars - perhaps there should be (as I am sure there used to be) a regulation to ensure that the sidepods are as big as the floor - and perhaps bring into the sides of the car some of the ancillary items that cause it to be so long.
We'd have more squat cars - shorter and with more individual looks to them...
They still could be a lot shorter. They have huge distances at the rear of the car that are not needed.cooken wrote: ↑05 Jan 2022, 15:14The sidepods have almost nothing to do with the length of the current cars. In the vicinity of the sidepods, we have the fuel tank, PU, and gearbox predominantly, and it is the length of these items that constrains the length of the floor in this region. None of these can really be moved off axis, so mandating wider sidepods would do little to nothing to combat car length in my opinion.
Well they are and they aren't. Aerodynamically you could say it's needed to lower the Cx of the car. For the Pirelli weight bias you could say the length is a necessity to move masses aboout. They could very easily cope though were the maximum wheelbase 3200mm rather than 3600mm.SiLo wrote: ↑05 Jan 2022, 16:49They still could be a lot shorter. They have huge distances at the rear of the car that are not needed.cooken wrote: ↑05 Jan 2022, 15:14The sidepods have almost nothing to do with the length of the current cars. In the vicinity of the sidepods, we have the fuel tank, PU, and gearbox predominantly, and it is the length of these items that constrains the length of the floor in this region. None of these can really be moved off axis, so mandating wider sidepods would do little to nothing to combat car length in my opinion.
Agreed, even at the current length they could still be a good bit shorter. Would lose a lot of performance aerodynamically though with a shorter underfloor.jjn9128 wrote: ↑05 Jan 2022, 17:05Well they are and they aren't. Aerodynamically you could say it's needed to lower the Cx of the car. For the Pirelli weight bias you could say the length is a necessity to move masses aboout. They could very easily cope though were the maximum wheelbase 3200mm rather than 3600mm.SiLo wrote: ↑05 Jan 2022, 16:49They still could be a lot shorter. They have huge distances at the rear of the car that are not needed.cooken wrote: ↑05 Jan 2022, 15:14The sidepods have almost nothing to do with the length of the current cars. In the vicinity of the sidepods, we have the fuel tank, PU, and gearbox predominantly, and it is the length of these items that constrains the length of the floor in this region. None of these can really be moved off axis, so mandating wider sidepods would do little to nothing to combat car length in my opinion.