You realise 2022 safety cell is longer and wider than the 2014 caterham right?Blackout wrote: ↑30 Apr 2022, 13:08Still looks too thick and stiff to me : P
Maybe the real spring is placed higher and is pushed by that stay.
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Yes. But the differences arent huge IMO, and it's still useful to get an ideajjn9128 wrote: ↑30 Apr 2022, 13:30You realise 2022 safety cell is longer and wider than the 2014 caterham right?Blackout wrote: ↑30 Apr 2022, 13:08Still looks too thick and stiff to me : P
Maybe the real spring is placed higher and is pushed by that stay.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRlc5ViXwAA ... =4096x4096
So I thought those slits in the floor are just another place where the air exits from under the floor, like the front. They act like a diffuser, creating downforce there. I though that was why they spread the slots further apart and made the rear one longer, get a better spread of the downforce.Blackout wrote: ↑02 May 2022, 16:34Yes. But the differences arent huge IMO, and it's still useful to get an ideajjn9128 wrote: ↑30 Apr 2022, 13:30You realise 2022 safety cell is longer and wider than the 2014 caterham right?Blackout wrote: ↑30 Apr 2022, 13:08
Still looks too thick and stiff to me : P
Maybe the real spring is placed higher and is pushed by that stay.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRlc5ViXwAA ... =4096x4096
Regarding the floor, there is a detail that often gets overlooked about the Alpine floor cuts, namely their vertical part (colored purple). They sit very low & they kinda look like mini skirts... and like the outwashy front fences of the floor... So I wonder how they work aerodynamically...
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As you see, Alpine added a metallic reinforcement to their leading edge in Imola... so maybe they (also) act like those RB18 skids (blue arrow) that supposedly maintain a minimum floor height there ?
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So did they get it by getting the curvature in the horizontal plane rather than the vertical (I thought it needed to be there, and vertical, but didn't look it up in the rulebook). The rounded edge is specifically to make shedding vortices less doable, so I suppose this is clever, and helps there, but also against the spirit of the rules (so FIA might in time amend rule to disallow if it works, I think).
indeed, if it works it might be a pretty big thing. And presumably relatively easy for others to follow, so if it is detrimental to the wake, I think the FIA would possibly step in to stop it. But for now, clever.