Final (will not change)
Not final (Will change/Dummy)
Well, as long as "our" nose is the first to cross the finishline, I don't care one bit what it looks like....
You can run like the wind, but you'll never outrun the Prancing Horse
Surely the only place the air could go from those vents is to the driver?? I'm probably wrong.
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I'm pretty good at that myself . They could just put stickers that looked like holes on there to make the nose look better, would be perfectly legal (and probably have red bull scratching their heads for a minute or two, or mclaren for the whole season ). But I think the flat incline is where they plan on putting the car number if I'm not mistaken. I could be wrong though .
yes it says that the effect is similar to what we used in 2008 the HOLY NOSE...
but what about this ? (idea stolen from another forum, but changed)
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Why was that 2008 nose dropped though?
btw, what you brought up might work, though it'll take a fair bit of time before the winds at 300kph are strong enough to tear off the veins connected to those eyes, causing them to fall off or roll out of their sockets to form the hole.
Is it just me, or do the pillars on the nose of the Ferrari look to be quite a bit thicker than those on the Sauber and Toro Rosso?
I don't know if that's part of the design or they plan on changing the nose later.
Just an observation
, holy c***, I suppose we are allowed to have holes there.
What if we just showed the car like that, but we'll have those holes after?
Every one of the 2012 cars with the stepped nose look fugly! The old addage is "if it looks quick, it probably is". So far, only the McLaren looks svelt and quick in the nose area. But saying that, if Adrian Newey has used a stepped nose, there must be some merit in keeping that shape. As some of you have mentioned before, as long as it's the ugly Ferrari nose crossing the line first, I'll be happy.
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I think that will be decided by the tests. If OK then we keep it if NOT we change it. It's too simple. Praying to be the first.
It wont be changed unless McLaren is suddenly 1 sec faster than anyone on the grid....
We can definately change it anytime, only hurdle is the crash test...plus the aerodynamics of the car has to be reworked for a lower nose...and more so the extreme pull rod frontal suspension..
That is a lot asking for aesthetically pleasing car...
How often do we see an evolution of a front wing in a season?
Never seen a team end the season with a wing completely different to the one they had during season opening. Don't remember any at least.
Ummmm. Front wings are a constantly evolving part of the car year in and year out. It is QUITE common that a team ends the season with a different front wing than they started with. In fact; Ferrari, Red Bull and McLaren all ended last year with different front wings than they started with.
Plenty...Ex: Renault tried 20 different front wings in 2010
http://www.formula1.com/news/technic...0/825/733.html
Follow that lead...and you can see the number if iterations each team goes thru a season..
Thanks. Yeah you're right, there are BOUND to be updates made to the plate on the wing, what I meant by "evolution" was a modulation in which even the area up to the step would be changed.
Those bits are tightly bound by body work regs, thats why we dont see any fins in that area,except very small ones like Merc/Brawn Gp run... Ferrari have run just 2 types of wings of 2011 spec, mainly with 2 and 3 element front wings which are for low/high df circuits respectively.
Sometime before the Indian Gp 2011 we started to use 2012 wing on the 2011 car, which did a lot of fluttering down in back straight in the Indian Gp.
If you look at HRT 2012 car online release pic.they dont have a step in the nose, but a very high V nose
LOL, its just different design approaches and methodologies..
Have a read of this :)
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2012/02/2...noses-avoided/
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