Team: Pat Fry (TD), Nikolas Tombazis (CD), Stefano Domenicali (MD)
Drivers: Fernando Alonso (5), Felipe Massa (6)
but because it is going downhill the whole car pivots around the rear wheels...the car in front of the rear wheels goes lower bringing the rear wing, diffuser etc higher up!Goran2812 wrote:what the hell... never mind if the car is going downhill or not, that is a huge amount of rake when you compare the edge of the diffuser to the tires... o.O
Not that huge, compare to other cars.Goran2812 wrote:what the hell... never mind if the car is going downhill or not, that is a huge amount of rake when you compare the edge of the diffuser to the tires... o.O
I think that the car is currently breaking (breaking momentum brings rear up and lower speed reduces downforce, as does throttle at 0%) as well as turning in (car is not parallel to tarmac).Goran2812 wrote:what the hell... never mind if the car is going downhill or not, that is a huge amount of rake when you compare the edge of the diffuser to the tires... o.O
actually those are not the sensors...those are the pitot tubes...which as their name suggests are just tubes.. each metal tube is connected to its own plastic flexi tube and then each individual tube is connected to a sensor inside the car's sidepods...the data is then transmitted to the team via the radio comm.Forza wrote:wesley123@ I didn't hear much after FP about it so I presume they don't have any issues with it or we will hear about it tomorrow before Fp3/Q.
I found another photo of sensors array on Massa's F2012
http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/2130 ... 560811.jpg
The lower rear end (diffuser, wishbones, crash structure, drive shafts...) looks the same as in germany. I'm pretty sure they don't have a tilted engine.wesley123 wrote:So where is this tilted gearbox/engine thingy?
Technically there are two tubes to each Pitot sensor arrangement, as they measure overall pressure (the inlet pointing into the flow) and the static pressure (little holes on top, perpendicular to flow). The difference is the dynamic pressure (depth pressure can be neglected) which is proportional to velocity squared. (This would demand that the flow is laminar, but for predictable degrees of turbulence you could compensate, especially if you have CFD simulations to compare.)amouzouris wrote:actually those are not the sensors...those are the pitot tubes...which as their name suggests are just tubes.. each metal tube is connected to its own plastic flexi tube and then each individual tube is connected to a sensor inside the car's sidepods...the data is then transmitted to the team via the radio comm.
yes you are right!! i fixed my original post for further infosuperdread wrote:The lower rear end (diffuser, wishbones, crash structure, drive shafts...) looks the same as in germany. I'm pretty sure they don't have a tilted engine.wesley123 wrote:So where is this tilted gearbox/engine thingy?
Also that they never will (in this season), as we have yet to hear any clear advantages for it (ones that aren't illegal, I might add).
Technically there are two tubes to each Pitot sensor arrangement, as they measure overall pressure (the inlet pointing into the flow) and the static pressure (little holes on top, perpendicular to flow). The difference is the dynamic pressure (depth pressure can be neglected) which is proportional to velocity squared. (This would demand that the flow is laminar, but for predictable degrees of turbulence you could compensate, especially if you have CFD simulations to compare.)amouzouris wrote:actually those are not the sensors...those are the pitot tubes...which as their name suggests are just tubes.. each metal tube is connected to its own plastic flexi tube and then each individual tube is connected to a sensor inside the car's sidepods...the data is then transmitted to the team via the radio comm.
It's also an excellent demonstration of the illusory effects of heat haze.Neno wrote:this is whole new lvl of rake in F1Forza wrote:Not representative but here you can see the amount of rake form angle of skid plank
http://www.formula1.com/wi/sutton/2012/d12hun344.jpg
Take a look at the pictures with the flo-vis right under your post. It shows the new FW being used in FP. I personally watched it on TV and could see the ferrari's were running the new FW in FP2.amouzouris wrote:both cars ran the old FW in FP2
