Well...after a week off....I'm back!!!! hehe...
Well the skid block has to obey to some rules...which I'll have to post next time cause I left the terchnical regs at home!
And it's not 100% wood....it's a kind of composite made from wood fibres and a benzo fenolic resin. I contacted Jordan enquiring about the skid block and the only thing thety replied was that it was wooden!!!!this means that it isn't wood but most of it is wood (the fibres)!
A composite is made up by 2 parts the resin and the reinforcement (in this case the fibres). When you look at a tree you see wood fibres and cellulosic resin! In F1 the only thing they do is change the resin!´~
Minardi for instance uses something very similar to ply wood and using special oils and vacum processes they are able to make this "composite", which has to heavier then water (according to the regs...and don't forget...wood isn't)!