PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑23 Feb 2022, 19:26
I searched some photos and models of the cars and I scratched off 1994 and 1995 Ferraris.
I scratch off year 2000 too.
If you haven't found what you're looking for, you haven't looked properly. Here is Piola's picture of the F1-2000 where Rory Byrne introduced the pushrod to upright concept.
Ferrari then used this concept ever since, i think (and never abandoned it) and many other teams copied it, in fact almost all of them in the 2000s. It is also mentioned in Honda's R&D book about their era until 2008. BAR was the first to introduce it in 1999. Here Piolas Drawing of the BAR solution:
Here the site from Hondas RD Book of their third era (untill 2008) on this matter:
Here the complete pages from Piolas book so one can see that its the F1-2000 and the 1999 BAR:
I'll save myself the trouble of looking at pictures of John Barnard's 1994 Ferrari, who used the same concept on this car but, unlike Rory Byrne, didn't get it right (he did not get in the axis, what caused problems) .
So it was more than ridiculous that this concept was hyped so much a few years ago regarding Mercedes, because it had already been successfully introduced in F1 almost 20 years earlier and was then used
by almost the entire field in the 2000s. But this is nothing new and is repeated all the time. For example, Newey's blown diffuser was hyped in 2010 even though it was a 26-year-old concept and the solution was practically a copy of the exhaust solution originally planned for the F300 (which was unfortunately not possible due to the heat protection technology and carbons not being developed far enough at the time and therefore the suspension cooked, which then led to the periscope exhaust) or the hype of 2022 and 2023 around Red Bull's "revolutionary" anti-dive suspension, which has been used for decades...
