Porsche bending the rules?

[OvalOwl]

This image from the Monza test at http://www.dailysportscar.com/?p=22838 just popped up on "Photoshop Disasters"



Is this some cunning ploy to get round the two men working rule?

[fatboy18]

That's interesting If the French see that the ole Stop and Go penalty might kick in! (Unless its a French Driver)

[lowdrag]

The whole point of this dates back 100 years to the first world war, called "dazzle painting". It made it very difficult to work out speed, direction etc. and conceals in this case some of the aerodynamic tweaks

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSgC_KG5lF...

[eastlmark]

lowdrag said:

The whole point of this dates back 100 years to the first world war, called "dazzle painting". It made it very difficult to work out speed, direction etc. and conceals in this case some of the aerodynamic tweaks

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSgC_KG5lF...

I think the op is talking about the half photoshopped out engineer rather than the paint scheme. Interesting photo though!

[fatboy18]

Its that Engineer standing BEHIND the white line (on the left of the pic) holding the air blower into the front brakes, there are Two other engineers working on the rear of the car on the outside of the line

[williamp]

Of course if the driver had been Vettel he would have had the full person. Mark only gets half an engineer...

[Graham]

fatboy18 said:

Its that Engineer standing BEHIND the white line (on the left of the pic) holding the air blower into the front brakes, there are Two other engineers working on the rear of the car on the outside of the line

thats nothing new the teams have all been doing that for years, the rule relates to over the line and touching the car

[eastlmark]

look at Nascar, they clean the rubbish of the grills using a long fishing rod like stick from the other side of the pit wall.