CaterhamF1 CT-01 Renault

[Scania]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-ipmfPGFWM

[nacho]

Looks to have rake. The rear of the car looks very long and empty,

[N12ck]

Wow I've just realised something, do you not think the Caterham/ Team Lotus Livery is inspired by the Minardi?

Look :

[RB7ate9]

I just hope they add some more sponsors or decals or SOMETHING. Having an empty mid-section and a big yellow decal makes the poor thing look chunkier than it really is.

[DCren]

The 2012 Caterham F1 car testing at Jerez

car actually looks composed. Big improvement over the 2011 and 2010 car.

I was watching the hands in the turns. No quick adjustments, very little movement if at all. Way different than last year. Very stable in that video at least. Could be a bad thing thou. Tight is slow, loose is fast.

[MIKEY_!]

Slow is smooth but smooth is fast.

[raymondu999]

Or he could have been coasting below the limit of grip - when it would be easy to be slow. Or maybe the drivers have just changed to a smooth style

[Pierce89]

Wow I've just realised something, do you not think the Caterham/ Team Lotus Livery is inspired by the Minardi?

Look :
[img]http://minardi.sweb.cz/Picture/MinardiM191B.jpg[img]
[img]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6849 ... _z.jpg[img]

I believe it's supposedly inspired by the mid 60's Lotus colors

[MIKEY_!]

Only the nose stripe and individual colours. The back of that minardi is a perfect match.

[DCren]

Or he could have been coasting below the limit of grip - when it would be easy to be slow. Or maybe the drivers have just changed to a smooth style

This is all true. I also watched the Caterham video on GP Update. Here's the link.http://www.gpupdate.net/en/videos/1874/ ... -in-jerez/
I could be partial too. I always liked Mikes' no BS approach.

[raymondu999]

I'm not sure what you're trying to point out from that video, sorry?

[Leon]

Interesting,why there four pylons(supports) instead of two? What benefit from them?

[MIKEY_!]

The two at the back smooth airflow around the base of the airbox as well as being part of the roll structure. That allows the undercut to be bigger. The front two are to create the hole for the car to be lifted off the track after an accident (I wouldn't rule out them being part of the roll structure as well)

Edit: mclaren were first to do it back in 2008 I think

[scarbs]

Its the metal inner strcuture of the roll hoop. Similar to that below, there's four legs as the structure is more heavily undercut and hence gives a better flow to the rear wing.

[Owen.C93]

Its the metal inner strcuture of the roll hoop. Similar to that below, there's four legs as the structure is more heavily undercut and hence gives a better flow to the rear wing.

[img]http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/8q6oaj.jpg[img]

Are all 4 structural on the Caterham then?