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Autosport today features a news item about Ferrari having a spring loaded (ie moveable.) front section of undertray on their latest car. This would seem to be fairly obviously to be a moveable aerodynamic device. Their excuse is, to protect the car from damage when it hits a kerb......
Looks to me like one rule for one, one rule for Ferrari. As always. How this cannot be a moveable aerodynamic device and the Renault mass damper was is beyond me.
One hates to use the C word but..
Looks to me like one rule for one, one rule for Ferrari. As always. How this cannot be a moveable aerodynamic device and the Renault mass damper was is beyond me.
One hates to use the C word but..
Nick_F said:
If it performs an aerodynamic function and moves relative to the rest of the car then it is outside the rules. If everyone does it as a matter of course then that's different, however.
As for justifying something on the basis that it allows the car to be driven over the kerbs...FFS!
As for justifying something on the basis that it allows the car to be driven over the kerbs...FFS!
They'll bring out something and justify it for riding over speed bumps next ffs!!!
All the F1 cars have a movable front section of the undertray or T tray as they are called. The regs allow a certain amount of movement in this area at a certain pressure which is tested during scrutineering. Under the t tray and the rest of the floor is the wear plank which can only wear away so much before the end of the race. teams use legal movement in this area to reduce the plank wear so they can run lower ride heights. ie as the car hits the floor the plank will move up and not wear so quickly. The clever bit is then the device many teams use to get round these regs and allow the t tray to move even further than the regs. But that would be cheating wouldn't it 
Thanks for the clarification, ngr: good info.
They kinda bring it on themselves though really, don't they?
The amount of influence Ferrari have on F1 or, more specifically, the way in which they exert their influence doesn't exactly put them in good stead for fans to afford the benefit of the doubt to the Scuderia very often.
Besides that, F1 involves so much money and such high stakes, teams will look for any way to reduce their opponents advantage. 'Sporting behaviour' and 'good form' are two words that simply do not fit into in the F1 lexicon in the modern era.
peter-2006 said:
Interesting that as soon as Ferrari win again someone is trying to find a way of chucking them out 
They kinda bring it on themselves though really, don't they?
The amount of influence Ferrari have on F1 or, more specifically, the way in which they exert their influence doesn't exactly put them in good stead for fans to afford the benefit of the doubt to the Scuderia very often.
Besides that, F1 involves so much money and such high stakes, teams will look for any way to reduce their opponents advantage. 'Sporting behaviour' and 'good form' are two words that simply do not fit into in the F1 lexicon in the modern era.
Edited by MrKipling43 on Thursday 22 March 23:18
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