This is the image I refered to earlier. Does heat coating here suggests blowing rear hub winglets?
I think the wheel winglets are in the natural path of the exhausts as they are laid out at the moment, so you could well be right. I have a feeling all of the winglets were coated in this material for last years car (or was it just the lower elements?).Alexgtt wrote:This is the image I refered to earlier. Does heat coating here suggests blowing rear hub winglets?
whey thats what i said they should do from the begining i would think they'd feed the duct lower down to keep it out of the exhaust gases pathAlexgtt wrote:This is the image I refered to earlier. Does heat coating here suggests blowing rear hub winglets?
shelly wrote:Coefficient wrote:shelly wrote:I think there is no fia rule about painting. The ponsors ruel in this field.
Stickers are avoidd in f1, logos are painted I think
I think you're confusing cars with overalls there. I've seen all teams renewing the decals on their cars after practice and qualy both in person at races and on the TV.
Sponsor endorsments on overalls are sewn on instead stuck or printed to reduce flamability.
I am talking about cars: stickers are avoided as much as possible in f1 from some years on, especially on aero relevant surfaces. When did you see decals renewing last, and for which f1 team?
I'm pretty sure many red herrings all over the car! This could be one of them but only top element has coating which is interesting. Although Scarbs said last night, in his very interesting discussion with Windsor, that in his opinion what was shown yesterday will be pretty much what tests on the opening days.horse wrote:I think the wheel winglets are in the natural path of the exhausts as they are laid out at the moment, so you could well be right. I have a feeling all of the winglets were coated in this material for last years car (or was it just the lower elements?).Alexgtt wrote:This is the image I refered to earlier. Does heat coating here suggests blowing rear hub winglets?
Could, obviously, be a red herring also, but it's a good spot, thx.
Hmmm yeah now come to think of it, the cars did get narrower in the times after Senna's death.Coefficient wrote:Tumbarello wrote:What's the reasoning for the regulations which make for narrow stance cars?
With a name like Tumbarello I'd have thought you could figure this out. Narrow track cars were introduced as yet another measure to slow them down in the corners.
shelly wrote:@raptor22: as I said, decals are avoided when possible. I think that they are less and less. Yes, they would use expensive masks for writings and logos (vodafone being also painted, not only the red). Or tranfers, like you said, under the transparent layer. But most teams will try and avoid putting stickers on the outside.
shelly wrote:Some times ago I also tought painting was too much; but a lot of people seem to think differently. I think close up on wings will show they are fully painted now; also I think shel logos on ferrari,vodafone names on mclaren are all painted.