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Team: Nick Chester (TD), Matthew Carter (CEO), Gerard Lopez (TP)
Drivers: Romain Grosjean (8), Pastor Maldonado (13), Charles Pic (Reserve), Marco Sorensen (Reserve), Nicolas Prost (Reserve)
What you're seeing is the effect of multiple lights. This certainly is a 3D render, but any photographer will tell you that you absolutely can see this kind of effect in real life too, simply by having multiple lights of different brightnesses, and sizes. The one casting the shadow is likely to be a very bright, but relatively small light source, while the one lighting the wheel is likely to be a fairly large, diffuse, soft light.
Beelsebob that's a really good explanation, if there was only one light source the shadow would be darker and more shaped or extreme and not as grey and shoft as it looks in this render. There are few sources of light, but as every 3D or with studio lighting you can shadow areas you don't want people see for example the front wing, making sure there is not much detail.beelsebob wrote:What you're seeing is the effect of multiple lights. This certainly is a 3D render, but any photographer will tell you that you absolutely can see this kind of effect in real life too, simply by having multiple lights of different brightnesses, and sizes. The one casting the shadow is likely to be a very bright, but relatively small light source, while the one lighting the wheel is likely to be a fairly large, diffuse, soft light.
Teams are not going to waste time, money, and personnel chasing another team's nose design at this point. They'd have to redo crash testing and aero all over the car. Not to mention they have bigger fish to fry making sure the engines are reliable as possible.NathanOlder wrote:So surely this is not what Lotus are launching with. Its just a fake to get others thinking and wasting time exploring the same idea.
yes, but pictures aren't on the official website, only on twitter and facebook.acosmichippo wrote:Teams are not going to waste time, money, and personnel chasing another team's nose design at this point. They'd have to redo crash testing and aero all over the car. Not to mention they have bigger fish to fry making sure the engines are reliable as possible.NathanOlder wrote:So surely this is not what Lotus are launching with. Its just a fake to get others thinking and wasting time exploring the same idea.
It's a good thing Kimi leftLookBackTime wrote:Lotus E22 will understeer and be tough to drive predicts F1 tech guru
Read more http://grandprix247.com/2014/01/26/lotu ... tech-guru/
where did they say that? everything I've seen says the car was just not ready, not that they didn't want anyone to see it.Rhodium wrote:yes, but pictures aren't on the official website, only on twitter and facebook.acosmichippo wrote:Teams are not going to waste time, money, and personnel chasing another team's nose design at this point. They'd have to redo crash testing and aero all over the car. Not to mention they have bigger fish to fry making sure the engines are reliable as possible.NathanOlder wrote:So surely this is not what Lotus are launching with. Its just a fake to get others thinking and wasting time exploring the same idea.
when you see the poor quality of pixel on nose, you can imagine is just a photoshop.
i imagine, it's just a buzz for nothing,
they said: "we don't want to go at jerez, just because others team can see the new car".
why make some picture and put on web after this interview ?
Whilst I don't question that guy's knowledge and experience, I don't know how any conclusions can be drawn when he has no access to the correct aero and downforce data, the 'photos' only show a limited amount of the detail and frankly the design of front wing and other aero details are unlikely to be the same as in publicity photos anyway!LookBackTime wrote:Lotus E22 will understeer and be tough to drive predicts F1 tech guru
Read more http://grandprix247.com/2014/01/26/lotu ... tech-guru/
Given the haemorrhage of Lotus staff to other teams since the end of last season, do you think any F1 team didn't know of the Lotus nose design by now?Blackout wrote:Only Boullier said ''we want to hide our secrets''... but Boulliers says alot of BS...