I don't think it would be considered as any of the named parts in the regulations. The regulations actually in general don't name parts, they simply say "the part in this area" or "the part connecting these other parts". There's a few exceptions to this, but not everything on a car has a name is the bottom line.richard_leeds wrote:It would have to be considered part of the wheel bearing? A simple substitution of cogs for ball bearings.
Of course I mean simple in terms of wordplay, I couldn't imagine that working in a practical way.
As the regulations do not mention the proposed part at all (either by name or by area, or by how it connects things), they don't give it a name, and don't enforce any rules on it.
Whether it would be useful or not, I don't know, to me it sure looks like a neat idea, and yeh, by the looks of it, the rules don't ban it.
I'm absolutely certain that some team members will read this forum (even if they only lurk), so we ought to get a good indication of whether it's a good idea or not simply by whether those engineers communicate the idea up the chain, or to their colleagues, and then by whether the teams implement it or a variant on it.
