Wrigs, I pointed out that convergence exists in other series, without interfering with cars passing each other.
On the other hand, as the F1 Manufacturers have pointed out for five years in a row, in F1 you have the particular problem of turbulence that doesn't allow one car to closely follow another.
So, the solution is all the opposite of what you propose, wrigs. Every time a team finds a way around the rules, nip them in the bud. For example, this year we have, for the bud nipping the following:
- F-duct ban
- Shortened shark fins
- Restrictions on crash structure used to enhance diffusers
- No sprung plank fixings
- Stricter floor load tests
- Restricted aero rims
- No more blade style roll hoops
- Fixed weight distribution
- Stricter rules on rearview mirror placement
Source:
http://www.formula1.com/news/technical/
If you still talk about less convergence of design, suit yourself, but is all the contrary, man. They are limiting ANY innovation that gives you more down force while they keep speed by giving less drag to the cars
across the board, from adjustable rear wings to improved cooling without so much drag.
FIA is not expecting radical cars, with surprising new designs, they are expecting very similar cars, killing somehow the insistence of designers in the simple solution of winning races by extraordinary down force brought in by a gadget nobody has thought about before.
If you cannot see that, well, what's wrong with this forum, if I may ask? It's not my opinion, is what's happening in front of your very eyes.
It's not what I want, it's not what I discovered in some obscure paper: it's what's happening right now, it's the solution gave by the industry and
it's what you should write about if you're writing a physics paper on the subject, instead of writing something like: "Well, I was too busy to read about the subject in the proper sources, but, hey, look the magnificent idea some guy gave me at F1Technical!".
Now, JET, dear, to substitute all this for a paper that proposes harder tyres is... well. Naive? Simplistic? Uninformed? Sure I think so. Same goes for andrew or mep (sorry, guys, it's not my intention to give you "the rages").
Where are your sources? Who, exactly (I mean, besides you or me) has given those solutions and where are they going to be implemented? Where are the numbers and the boring research and the long engineering articles that give those ideas some support, articles that you cannot summarize in five lines?
This forum has a level of quality by tradition and I insist that we are in this thread to help to write a paper, not to find a magic bullet that those hard headed morons at FIA avoid using because they are... morons?
I won't say that again, feel free to find the solution that nobody except you can see. I have things to do, that's all I
should write here. Lunch is ready, see ya.
