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Btw Gilgen do u work in RB or something...I mean how can u be so sure in RB6 legality?
It's Adrian Neweys car were talking about... :^o
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Following the complaints of a number of teams regarding the flexibility of the Red Bull Racing and Ferrari front wings, the FIA has moved to increase the requirements regarding the strength of the front wings to prevent them from flexing too much.
I read the technical reports on FIA.com!Rino wrote:With the current testing methods...
Btw Gilgen do u work in RB or something...I mean how can u be so sure in RB6 legality?
It's Adrian Neweys car were talking about... :^o
What load to test the wings is he revering to?Do you think the current wing deflection tests are still good enough, or do you believe teams are focusing only on getting through scrutineering and then doing other things out on track?
AC: The front wing FIA load is roughly 2.5 times lower than the maximum load you would get at top speed. So there is room to increase the load, but then it is a matter on how to apply the load statically in the garage. It is not easy. But we would be quite happy to increase the load on the wings. We are quite far from the top speed maximum load, so the wing can accept a higher load for sure in terms of the FIA test. There are no issues on that front from our side.
Yes but theyre talkin about the bit of cable that was seen hanging from the wing ex post wreckoxpensive wrote:I am talking about the crooked carbon-fibre worm that does all the magic, if only people could see the obvious there.
Surely you mean the Ferrari F10.Mandrake wrote:All the fuss about a car that didn't even win today's grandprix, nor did it show extraspecial performance this weekend
james allen wrote wrote: After the heated debate in Germany and Hungary about the Red Bull front wing flexing to increase front downforce, a new more stringent test was introduced by the FIA. Red Bull passed the test.
The Red Bull wing at Spa featured fewer elements than the Hungary wing and observers say that it did not flex out on track as much as in Budapest. The team says that they have changed nothing in the wing apart from things they would normally do when moving from an ultra high downforce circuit like Hungary to a faster circuit like Spa. However senior composites technicians from the team’s Milton Keynes base, who do not normally attend Grands Prix, were noticed in the paddock, which means that something out of the ordinary was taking place. The theory is that the wing flexes outwards due to a sophisticated layering process of the carbon composite material.[
n_anirudh wrote:http://www.formula1.com/news/technical/ ... 6/782.html
Interesting that the 100kg load is applied thru the middle sections, rather than the endplates as previously...
I'll be darned, aren't they clever those engineers?fausto cedros wrote:james allen wrote wrote: ...
The theory is that the wing flexes outwards due to a sophisticated layering process of the carbon composite material.[
Pardon my ignorance, but what is your distinction between cord and cable?xpensive wrote:Btw strad, the thing hanging out of the wreck was a cord, not a cable.