MIKEY_! wrote:How big can they make these flaps. What's the wording like in the regulations? Is it similar to the gurney rules for the rear wing. With this gurney on gurney stuff... how many flaps can they stick on there?
I think that it doesn't get covered by the diffuser rules at all, because 1) it's not visible from beneath the car 2) it's above 125mm above the reference plane, so it doesn't get caught in the lateral/longitudinal vertical plane forming one continuous line rule. It also doesn't get caught in the rear wing rules because it's too low. Seems like the teams can do pretty much anything in there, as long as it's above 125mm and below the beam wing's bounding box.F1 Tech Regs 2011 wrote:3.12.7 No bodywork which is visible from beneath the car and which lies between the rear wheel centre line and a point 350mm rearward of it may be more than 125mm above the reference plane. With the exception of the aperture described below, any intersection of the surfaces in this area with a lateral or longitudinal vertical plane should form one continuous line which is visible from beneath the car.
An aperture for the purpose of allowing access for the device referred to in Article 5.16 is permitted in this surface. However, no such aperture may have an area greater than 3500mm2 when projected onto the surface itself and no point on the aperture may be more than 100mm from any other point on the aperture.
Additionally, any bodywork in this area must produce uniform, solid, hard, continuous, rigid (no degree of freedom in relation to the body/chassis unit), impervious surfaces under all circumstances).
