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“The main advantages of a higher nose need some thinking and knowledge of the complete car to see. At first sight the higher nose is equal to less downforce as by itself it pushes less air up over the nose. However if you have a look at Prost’s Williams FW15C and even more the Williams FW16 of the year after, surprisingly the nose is not aimed to push air up, but instead small at the front to allow air flow aside of the nose. The air that passes the nose forms the basic concept of a high nose cone. Having such a nose allows air to go straight through under the nose instead of having to bend around it. While it reduces drag for sure, the front wing planes can span the complete width of the car which in fact allows more downforce to be generated at the front. All air that passed under the nose is then guided under the car or split to either side of the car by the splitter located just in front of the sidepods.
Why now would we want so much air to nicely pass the nose and go into the sidepods or under the car’s floor? Quite simply where the most downforce can be generated, exactly the diffuser that locates at the end of the car’s stepped floor. The more air you get under the floor and the faster it can exit out of the diffuser the more downforce will be generated. The advantage of such a floor is even more obvious as downforce is generated not only in the diffuser but also under the complete floor.”
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@Dan Thorn
The Logitech G25/27 have 3 pedals and H shift pattern, but also paddles for gear. The G27 has on top of this shift lights and bigger wheel with more buttons.
G27: http://www.virtualr.net/wp-content/gallery/1829/3819109242_6ce411b285_o.jpg
Fanatec also has great quality products with 3 pedals and H-patterns (replica’s of porche wheels)
http://www.fanatec.de/html/index.php?id=210
Porsche 911 Turbo Wheel: http://www.fanatec.de/img/foto_bilder/09_pwt_wheelall.jpg
And if you are rich:
FrexGP: http://www.frex.com/gp/
Over 2000 dollar, but proffesional quality.
http://frex.xsrv.jp/gpshop/catalog/images/Pedal016-800-320.jpg
@EagleEye812
Is that Sporza or RTBF.
If you mean Sporza then I agree, I always watch on the BBC. And if you mean Sporza do you know if they actually go to the races or just act like they do?
I found it annoying. Maybe for a stupid reason but I love trying to read what is being shown on the drivers display, like speed, laps (Webber) or in 2009 the KERS in %, mixture settings, … and it is easy to watch realtime drivers delta onboard. With this new system alot of the cars displays are blocked.
