Two US F1 team trailers have been put up for sale on eBay. The trailers were originally purchased from Brawn GP, and were planned to be used for the 2010 season. However, when USF1 ran into difficulties just weeks before the start of the season, which were discribed by the team as "serious economic and funding challenges", they were unable to make the grid in Bahrain.
what do you mean by new suspension technology?xpensive wrote:I would have spared myself the entire bother by going with the standard Xtrac/Ricardo transmission
and invested the time saved in new suspension technology.
And what is that?xpensive wrote:I refer to the latest electromagnetic/bump-recovery systems.
They won't be running coils up front. The packaging benefits of torsion bars are so well known to the entire racing community and packaging is so important in F1. Yes I saw the picture on the wall but I just don't believe they'll run front coils.How can you tell the bars aren't in the middle of bellcrank.scarbs wrote:Yup those pictures on the wall pretty much confirm the use of coil springs. I can’t recall the last F1 car to use coil spring front suspension, I mean its use even petered out on the rear some five years ago. I guess we’d have to look at around the active era, when the rocker\damper\springs were moutned atop the chassis, so what 15 years ago..?
I can see the attractiveness of a transverse gearbox in terms of length, effectively the gearbox can be shorter, although it will be wider. With the larger fuel cell the shortness would be good to maintain wheelbase. If it weren’t for DDDs it would be Ok for aero too, as much of its bulk would be in the shadow of the engine. However the DDD needs space for the floor to rise up before the axle line, which is exactly where the transverse box sits. Of course clever design might optimise its shape for the DDD, but conceptually I’d say its not ideal.
Looking at the full car CAD image again, you can make out a wider extension to the side of the gearbox (colours browny gold in the CAD pic), you can see the upper deck of the DDD running past it. You could gain several inches of diffuser volume without this.
USF1 is already crash testingcooper-climax wrote:Interesting insight into USF1's (possible) current schedule. From here.. http://translate.google.com/translate?j ... l=es&tl=enCrash testing on the 15th does seem to be leaving it a little late. Presumably they are building up the first chassis and crashing the second to save some time. Fine if everything works out, but I can't imagine that it would be a teams first choice."Probably on Friday if it were all closed and the announcement would" Remohí shot, though he said he does not know when contracts may be closed. If completed on the addition of the USF1 Pechito February 15 would be the Crash Test to begin on 19 three-day test. Since March 7, the car would sail to go to Bahrain.
Link please.USF1 is already crash testing
Oh come on, "Type 1" is retro, coil-springs, machined 6000-Alu parts, transverse gearbox, and yes, I love it!Pierce89 wrote:They won't be running coils up front. The packaging benefits of torsion bars are so well known to the entire racing community and packaging is so important in F1. Yes I saw the picture on the wall but I just don't believe they'll run front coils.How can you tell the bars aren't in the middle of bellcrank.scarbs wrote:Yup those pictures on the wall pretty much confirm the use of coil springs.
As would I.xpensive wrote: Oh come on, "Type 1" is retro, coil-springs, machined 6000-Alu parts, transverse gearbox, and yes, I love it!
It always has said "US", at least for the past couple of months.Pup wrote:btw, it appears that our favorite team is no longer called USF1, at least according to the FOM website. They've removed the "F1" from both USF1 and LotusF1, and even removed their logos. See here. So now they're just "US".
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