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The pre-season questions posed over McLaren's unique rear wing concept smacks of the fuss made over Brawn's double diffuser last year - but what's it all about, and will it make such a difference? There's no smoke without fire, and the fact that several teams have called for a clarification over...

Ferrari's red comes about due to the way the sport began, where each country was assigned a colour and the red for Ferrari has remained. Red was assigned to Italian cars, Green to English, Blue to France and so on. Canary yellow as seen on the Prancing Horse emblem could be classed as Ferrari's...

The double diffuser concept that put Brawn so far ahead last year has been ramped up by some teams this season - but in fact one of the most important parts is actually not at the back, but right up front. The airflow over a Formula One car is extremely complex and the only time and place any of...

Bridgestone Tyres Tested in Valencia 04/02/2010Bridgestone Motorsport, the Official Tyre Supplier to the FIA Formula One World Championship, has completed the first group test of the exciting new 2010 season after three days at the 4.05 km Circuit Comunitat de la Valenciana, in Spain. This...

I take it the rules govern the dimensions of the floors on the cars, pretty sure they do, as we can see here the bodywork is very sleek but the floor is kept wide, my question is why do the FIA govern this area and what would be the effect if they reduced the floor to match the bodywork? ...

From 1 to 282: the origins of the chassis numbers Maranello, 17 February – Felipe Massa debuted with the chassis number 282, the second F10, this morning on the Jerez de la Frontera circuit in Spain. Usually the Formula 1 teams identify the chassis with a progressive number for each...

i have seen some of you mention double and/or triple difusers, how do you people count those things? and/or can someone explain the difference to me please? i really dont get those things

I was wondering whether the flexibility of the front and rear wings has changed much over the years. I'm not a techie at all, but, a couple of things are obvious to me. You want wing to corner and you don't want them on straights. I can see that from the look they have at say Monza compared to...

2010 regulation changes - 2009/2010 front comparison http://i49.tinypic.com/2a5yhdc.jpg From the front, the 2010 cars will look distinctly different to their '09 predecessors due to the narrower front tyres (1) and the wider rear bodywork needed to accommodate the larger fuel tank (2)...

Obviously know one really knows, but this is just too speculate how our car from next year will compare to the one this year. Christian Horner already said at this weeks Brazilian GP that he understands alot of cars will look like a Redbull. So speculate away everyone...

Hi everyone. I wonder if this page is in someway connected to the Ferrari F1 team? I guess some of all thousands of ppl on this forum has some good idea that maybe they would like to share with Ferrari F1 team to help the team reach it´s goals. Like myself have some ideas that maybe could be...

People say that the morning has the best conditions for driving the fastest laps of the day? How exactly does that comes?

Can anyone please provide info about the development, evolution and history of Formula One suspensions and engines? It can be websites, videos, word documents or anything. Thanks.

Hey all Ferrari Fans this is the link to the page which shows the engine usage and chassis usage of different teams http://www.f1technical.net/articles/12613?sid=3082c9963ff72d09da0628f5ae99ffdd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdcoVurVY30&feature=channel

http://www.formula1.com/news/features/2009/2/8949.html Think Formula One racing and the numbers that normally spring to mind are power outputs, top speeds and budgets. But numerically speaking there is far more than meets the eye to the average Grand Prix season. Did you know, for example,...

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/6051/picture3yz7.png Thought I'd start a thread providing everyone here with Technical information for the 2009 cars. I hope it gives a better insight to teams designs and in a more technical way than Mark Hughes' analysis on ITV. All information from...

I was wondering...does anyone know what the lift coefficient of a F1 rear wing is? And what the maximum lift coefficient will be round about of a 2 element wing? The Lift (downforce) equation is defined by: L = 0.5 x rho x CL x A x V^2 And I'm after that CL - the lift coefficient.

now that the team have to make ther gear box's last several races a question came to me. they are not aloud to change the gear boxes or the get a penalty. but what happens between races and different tracks require different gear ratios and surely they must change thoes and would that not mean they...

Found it very interesting. http://www.f1technical.net/news/12299?sid=96864d72b136d848d15bd8bd07851401

So its been 2 races and the F60 has finished with a high of 9th place.... Not exactly a fantastic start!!!! The simple yet biggest flaw of all is the cars flow, none of it works together. If you take the front wing - it looks so outdated its not funny compared to Brawn GP001's front wing which...

http://www.formula1.com/photos/ta_article/full/ta_article_620.jpg Rear difussers. The most competitive maybe Toyota & Williams, other teams probably copy them... http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/jad/fotos/difusores.jpg ...

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/6051/picture3yz7.png Another thread with information for 2009. Here you can find the 2009 car profiles. All information from F1Technical. Ferrari F60 http://www.f1technical.net/f1db/cars/images/2009/ferrari-f60.jpg

Boy or boy, a gal has to take a break from staying up on all things F1 due to fighting this cancer stuff I come back to find my beloved sport has gotten out of whack for me!!?? I am really a bit out of sorts trying to figure out the progression of how we ended up with the some of the new rules,...

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http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/6051/picture3yz7.png All information from F1 Technical Visualising the aerodynamic rules of 2009 Formula One will never be the same again. It has been given a completely different look and a much reduced development cost by the introduction of the most...

http://www.autosport.com/images/upload/1233163847.jpg This week a row has erupted over the design of two teams' diffusers, after the new Williams and Toyota emerged sporting radically different diffuser designs to the other cars launched so far. Williams came up with a 'double decker'...

Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems are one of the big talking points off the off-season, as F1 teams weigh up whether to use them on their 2009 F1 cars. KERS builders Flybrid Systems demonstrated a working Formula 1-spec device at the Autosport International show. I had a chat with managing partner...

Ferrari funds 6 study grants for research activities Maranello, January 2009 - As part of its own initiatives for the development, support and enhancement of capable young people, Ferrari decided to fund six study grants of 25,000 euros to be awarded by means of an international competition to...