Whats innovative about it, except slim sidepods? It looks quite boring frankly.turbof1 wrote:Most innovative car until now. By far.
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Team: Matt Morris (CD), Willem Toet (HA), Beat Zehnder (Team Manager), Monisha Kalterborn (CEO)
Drivers: Nico Hulkenberg (11), Esteban Gutierrez (12)
Whats innovative about it, except slim sidepods? It looks quite boring frankly.turbof1 wrote:Most innovative car until now. By far.
They appear small because they waist towards the top instead of the bottom which deceives the eye when one is so used to seeing it the other way round. Its probably to lower the CofG by having the bulk of the cooling gear lower down.bhallg2k wrote:Can we still call those sidepods? If anything, they're subtlepods.n smikle wrote:[...]
Those side-pods are just crazy, man. I still can't wrap my head around how they will get those tiny radiators to cool anything at all!
You are joking right?Rikhart wrote:Whats innovative about it, except slim sidepods? It looks quite boring frankly.turbof1 wrote:Most innovative car until now. By far.
+1 I think the sameCoefficient wrote: They appear small because they waist towards the top instead of the bottom which deceives the eye when one is so used to seeing it the other way round. Its probably to lower the CofG by having the bulk of the cooling gear lower down.
You do reliase that to make a "decoy" bodywork, someone has to design the part, design the tooling which includes a pattern and then a mould, program the CNC machine to spend hours cutting the tooling board, layup a tool onto it, cure the tool, demould and trim an the post cure the tool treat the tool with release, layup the actual part, cure it, demould it, program the CNC machine again to trim it, fill it and paint it...ecapox wrote: I highly doubt any of these launch cars have an engine fitted or much of the internals for that matter. I guess if one wanted to they could make cheap bodywork for the launch that was nothing like what they will run at the first test. Not to say sauber are doing that but damn those side pods are tiny.
My eyes tell me that the turning vanes are as far outboard as the rules will allow, just like on every other car. Unlike every other car, however, there's a good six to eight inches of space between them and the subtlepods™ which are still undercut.Coefficient wrote:They appear small because they waist towards the top instead of the bottom which deceives the eye when one is so used to seeing it the other way round. Its probably to lower the CofG by having the bulk of the cooling gear lower down.bhallg2k wrote:Can we still call those sidepods? If anything, they're subtlepods.n smikle wrote:[...]
Those side-pods are just crazy, man. I still can't wrap my head around how they will get those tiny radiators to cool anything at all!
I'd doubt it, i'm sure they will continue to get their components from Ferrari too. If it's anything like the McLaren gearbox though they will have several options in terms of placement. Andrew Green told us yesterday that the McLaren box they use has 6 options (from memory)afiq wrote:
Sauber made their gearbox casing themselves? Different suspension attachment points.
F2012 and C31 look fairly the same. This year they were completely different.
Its the NACA style duct on the engine cooling hole on the back of the engine cover, im not sure what they want the air or are trying to do with it. May be something for the team to expand on in the future.korzeniow wrote:Another hi-res photos of the car:
Actually I agree with him, but not about Sauber particularly, but about each new car we've seen so far.turbof1 wrote:You are joking right?Rikhart wrote:Whats innovative about it, except slim sidepods? It looks quite boring frankly.turbof1 wrote:Most innovative car until now. By far.
