sevor of moveable front wing

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marcush.
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raymondu999 wrote:What I don't understand is, what do they do with it? When following in the wake of another car, do they give it a more aggressive angle by 6 degrees to counter the understeer? Or do they decrease it and just make it lift neutral so it's not buffeted by the wake?

it is used as a balance trim by most if I am correct.the possibility to compensate for lost front downforce in the wake was the original idea of the adjustment but 6 °
seems to be not enough range...

autogyro
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I cannot see how any wing angle adjustment can compensate for turbulent air.

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raymondu999
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Joined: 04 Feb 2010, 07:31

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Hey all. A new thought just popped into my head. Drivers are allowed 2 wing angle changes during a lap, 1 to a new setting, and the 2nd one must be to go back to the old setting, by 6 degrees. 1st, is 6 degrees the *mandated* change, or is it the *maximum* change (meaning they can change 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 degrees)?

Next, do they *have* to switch back to the old setting? Everything I know seems to point to *can* change it back. So for example, could it be possible, say, for a driver to increase it by 6 degrees this lap, then not change back, then increase it by another 6 degrees, and so on, in the next lap?
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ESPImperium
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Joined: 06 Apr 2008, 00:08
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Personally id allow the FFA to be adjusted an unlimited ammount of times per lap, by up to 10 degreese at a time.

Its a amazing feat of engineering, one that is simply amazing on the modren F1 car, up there with any other technology on the modren F1 car.