F1 Fanatic

Here’s a picture from today’s practice sessions of Vettel on the main straight.

http://i55.tinypic.com/3305qax.jpg

And here is another in the first corner.

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/vett_redb_melb_2011-22.jpg

Not to mention the wing looks significantly lower than other front wings.

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/butt_mcla_melb_2011.jpg

Is it just me/angles of the pictures?

Red Bulls have some kind of suspensions that forces the wing down when it gets pressured.
I think it has a kind of “lift” system underneath, with 2 level settings.
Like putting your arm off your joint and back again

I’ve a question, does the flexy wing just increase downforce, or does it make it more efficient.

I hear that Rebulls whole nose bends now changing their front wings angle, fiendishly clever, even gets the neutral middle bit to stop creating lift, but is that just a straight downforce increaser, or a relative drag reducer at the same time?

I’d love to see an article explaing exactly why you’d want to bend your front wing, an what the effect on the rest of the car is.

How and why?

Flexing?

Yes, it’s flexing it’s muscle.

I think the nose flexes as well.

Nah, ground effect is a bout pulling the car to the ground by the creation of a vaccum, RB’s wings are about variable flow and downforce creation. What the many varied flow of the redbull does is the interesting thing. An no one really seems to know, someone sick an aerodynamisist on it.

AN vote for my suugested article here (right at the bottom :( http://skribit.com/blogs/f1fanatic get Keith to throw John Beamer at the question, I wonder how you’d go about asking Scarbs?

Yes, I know, but is that all? I know the angle of attack is increased, but what does that to do to the rest of the car, are they merley taking reduced straight line speed in return for higher cornering speed this way?

Does lowering the wing angle really increase ground effect if there is no seal, can there be a ground effect with no seal to create a vaccum? Is there a confusion between the ground effects cars ban’d in the late 80′s and lower ride hights today. What effect do other felxi bits have, an why try and run your car lower, I know it increases efficiency BUT WHY? Why now they have flexing other bits have the other teams been so unimaginative ;)?

Why haven’t the FIA figured out how to ban this dangerous mess?