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zac510 wrote:holy moly..
Sure they haven't been attaching cameras to that for video/marketing shoots?
I'd suspect not!
To me it's quite simple...the downwash created but those wings depending on the way it is rotating can be used to bring somekind of benefit! The question is what benefit? Aibox?
I wonder... perhaps these are nothing but covers some new torsion bars... Think back to ferrari's rear suspension introduced in spain. What makes me think of this is the attachment point of these wings, exactly over the front suspension. Secondly I am surprised that they are attached to the nose cone rather than the monocoque, suggesting again that there is something underneath those wings that will need to be readily accessed.
I dont believe for one bit that if they are for air management for the airbox, if they were, there would be no need for a wing profile right at the attachment point, they would use a spacer such as what holds up the side mirrors.
I want to see BMW's suspension without the nose cone, I believe we will know then.
WTF, covers for torsion bars? Bit extreme aren't they? I dont get it? How can they be covers? They are clearly an aerodynamic device. They are probably mounted to the nose so they can simply swap over to a nose without them for comparison??
They have a wing profile.
So they can create a force (but they must not).
There are two of those wings so the forces have a counter effect in a straight line.
But in a bend due to a special wing profile and a diagonal
angle of attack one profile produces more force than the other.
This force points to the inside of the bend and helps cornering.
Other than the force the front wing produces is this wing producing
the centripedal-force directly and not over the tires.
So you can use harder tires
and have although good cornering ability.
Simon: Nils? You can close in now. Nils?
John McClane: [on the guard's phone] Attention! Attention! Nils is dead! I repeat, Nils is dead, ----head. So's his pal, and those four guys from the East German All-Stars, your boys at the bank? They're gonna be a little late.
Simon: [on the phone] John... in the back of the truck you're driving, there's $13 billon dollars worth in gold bullion. I wonder would a deal be out of the question?
John McClane: [on the phone] Yeah, I got a deal for you. Come out from that rock you're hiding under, and I'll drive this truck up your ass.
They are BMW's anti barrel roll fins to allow the drivers to become airbourn yet always land right way up Aparently the development project was called CATS because it doesn't matter how a cat is dropped it always lands on its feet
The FIA should ban that kind of stuff...it just looks rubbish. After all car racing is (hopefully) about the fans and why should we have to look at horrid cars.
Aparently the development project was called CATS because it doesn't matter how a cat is dropped it always lands on its feet 
