Not to sound terse, but to avoid the tit for tat, you don't know what you are talking about.
Show me the actual boundary layer in any of the articles you posted. Even the CFD ones. While you are doing it, tell me how high it is too.
As for the BMW, there was never an F1 car before it with that philosophy. Apparently the words "High nose" to you covers everything described as a high nose.
I suppose if i called the nose a "table top" or "surf board" you would change your mind and search the history of F1 for noses with same wording?
It's worrying how words suddenly are more powerful than diagrams and numbers. All this talk about boundary layer etc etc and not one image or measurement of it.
The whole reasoning behind the BMW nose flew over your head too.
Take an egg and punch a hole in it. Have a crash test with an egg with a hole in and one without a hole in it. Tell me which is stronger and which one if needs be can be made thinner and lighter.
Also reason out what would happen if a car has a very thin nose like the sauber; a crease basically as the leading edge. How small would the cooling hole be in that thin nose. Would the driver or electronics be cooled at all?
Is it best to have the cooling hole at the tip of the nose, messing with the flow from the start, or put the hole out of the way somewhere where it wont affect the flow over the nose and to the cockpit, like underneath and further back?
Just think about those things before you get into a war of words which you haven't taken the time to appreciate.
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