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Following a long meeting and discussions between the involved teams, Brawn GP, Williams and Toyota have been given allowance to compete in this weekend's Australian Grand Prix with their current diffuser designs.
I interprate it as the engineers are teh Winnah's!myurr wrote:Except air doesn't work only in a vertical fashion, create an area of low pressure in the middle and air will flow into it from any adjacent area of higher pressure, including sideways. So it's area of effect is much larger than you might assume. Whether it is enough to disrupt the way the front wing is supposed to work in 2009, I have no idea. But I sincerely doubt it will have zero effect, it's just a question of whether it will have a noticeable effect and if it does then the FIA will have suffered another bout of fail.
Small victory it is, but a victory none the less.Agerasia wrote:I interprate it as the engineers are teh Winnah's!myurr wrote:Except air doesn't work only in a vertical fashion, create an area of low pressure in the middle and air will flow into it from any adjacent area of higher pressure, including sideways. So it's area of effect is much larger than you might assume. Whether it is enough to disrupt the way the front wing is supposed to work in 2009, I have no idea. But I sincerely doubt it will have zero effect, it's just a question of whether it will have a noticeable effect and if it does then the FIA will have suffered another bout of fail.
I LOVE IT!!!pete555 wrote:Max says williams toyota diffuser OK
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73140
Why, oh, why is there so much crying? Is it because it is illegal? Is it because it gives an unfair advantage? Or is it because the crybaby teams are talent deficient, and cannot think outside of the 175mm box?
I think that the Toyota and Williams interpretations are pure genius, and any team that cries should instead get some new blood in their paddock, because this is what happens when your people habitually marry their cousins.
Before we go drawing wild conclusions we first need to know just how much downforce these diffusers could add relative to their counterparts. Maybe they will make a huge difference, but personally I think setup is going to be the single biggest determining factor of the front row in Melbourne. In my opinion teams are dealing with so many variables that the team who gets the set up right is going to have a big advantage.Toyota and Williams for the front 2 fows of the grid then for Oz, as those diffusers will make up for the lack of downforce provided by the rear wing and appandages that have been outlawed in the 2009 rules.
You need to take that stuff with a bit of sarcasm. If I think that it is too vague, I will make a point of calling it sarcasm, but on the obvious ones, I don't bother.jwielage wrote:Why, oh, why is there so much crying? Is it because it is illegal? Is it because it gives an unfair advantage? Or is it because the crybaby teams are talent deficient, and cannot think outside of the 175mm box?
I think that the Toyota and Williams interpretations are pure genius, and any team that cries should instead get some new blood in their paddock, because this is what happens when your people habitually marry their cousins.
I find this statement to be somewhat misguided. It makes perfect sense for a team like Renault to seek clarification, or "cry" as you have so eloquently put it, on the legality of these diffusers.
If the Renault engineers interpreted the rule differently in the first place who is to say their initial interpretation wasn't the correct one (keep in mind Ferrari and McLaren also had a similar interpretation)? What if they began to develope a new diffuser only to have Toyota & William's designs deemed illegal? Seeking clarification regarding the legality of these designs was the only way for them to confirm that they needed to go back to the drawing board.
However they could just be on their period, that might be a more logical explanation.
