Comments on: How the F1 rules changes for 2009 are meant to improve racing (part 1/3)

By: n. sanchez

n. sanchez — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:03:04 +0000

Thank god F1 season starts in a week. If i see one more Nascar, Nastruck, Busch series, dirt track roundy round race i’m gonna puke coathangers. That go straight , turn left crap is boring. It’s the margerine of racing. The diet coke of racing. And, they don’t even race in the rain!

By: SHANE

SHANE — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:09:03 +0000

WOULD IT BE BETTER TO RACE THE OPPOSITIE WAY AROUND THE RACE TRACKS THAT YOU HAVE NOW INSTEAD OF BUILDING NEW TRACKS I THINK THAT IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR F1 RACE

By: Chaz

Chaz — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:53:04 +0000

Great article. Very informative…

By: beneboy

beneboy — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:41:59 +0000

The Brabham BT46B Fan car and Lotus Type 79′s both use systems that are much better suited to chasing and following another car than the current wing/spoiler aerodynamic systems used in F1 these days.

There’s a decent wiki article about them here.

The Fan car was banned after one race and I think the current regulations regarding the underside of the cars prevents the teams from using decent sized venturis.

Keith has done some good articles about these but I can’t find them now, maybe if someone else knows where the “banned” articles are they’ll post the link.

By: Pingguest

Pingguest — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:37:02 +0000

About the standardized central section of the front wing, the OWG could had choosen for banning high nose cones. That would have reduced underbody performances even further too.

By: Noel

Noel — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:07:07 +0000

What a great article!

Not too technical, not dumbed-down. Pitched perfectly.

More of this!

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:37:51 +0000

No the vented nose isn’t legal this year.

By: chunter

chunter — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:40:59 +0000

Has anyone ever deliberately made a car for following, eg. making it designed for flow of updrafted or low-pressure air…

By: Loki

Loki — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:59:46 +0000

Cheers Seedy and Sush, that helps.

Perhaps 15% would be too exciting, then!

By: Sush

Sush — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:38:37 +0000

I agree that 6 degrees seems paltry, it almost seems like there’s no point. I would’ve thought 15-30 degrees would have been more exciting,

you must remember that its 6 degrees from the original angle of attack for the wing, considering its already at 25% then allowing the driver to add another 15 to 30 % of angle onto it would make the car very slow when he presses the wrong button, or worst case, at top speed rip off and cause an accident.