Jez, on Jul 25 2008, 04:54 PM, said:
The circle is complete. I think every team has tested the shark fin now, unless I've left someone out?
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Mclaren's New Engine Cover
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Posted 25 July 2008 - 11:07 PM
The circle is complete. I think every team has tested the shark fin now, unless I've left someone out?
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Posted 26 July 2008 - 12:02 AM
Hondas bunny rabbit ears have grown vertical planes too....going for extended dumbo mileage like a 747-400 
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Posted 26 July 2008 - 05:42 AM
Meanioni, on Jul 26 2008, 03:07 AM, said:
I hope they ban them - an F1 car should be a thing of beauty...
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Posted 26 July 2008 - 05:47 AM
duest, on Jul 26 2008, 06:42 AM, said:
Who made you the judge of what constitutes beautiful?
Eh? What a dumb question. I am not speaking on behalf of humanity - in my personal opinion I think they look ugly.
duest, on Jul 26 2008, 06:42 AM, said:
I think these new engine covers look fine.
Good for you.
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Posted 26 July 2008 - 11:56 AM
Nope, a Grand Prix car should be a thing of form-follows-function/ efficiency. Beauty if there is to be, is but a perk an accident.
Beauty got lost when they banned the active ride cars.
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Posted 06 August 2008 - 06:18 AM
McLaren look like they might not be following the trend of racing the "Shark Fin", aka "Anvil" engine cover.
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The team’s CEO Martin Whitmarsh said: “Its intended aim was to improve the car’s sensitivity during yaw, but we found that some of the advantage it brought to that area was being offset elsewhere.
“As you can clearly see, it is a large structure and one that is particularly sensitive to crosswinds.
“We felt that our car already delivers sufficiently in yaw and that continuing to experiment with the dorsal fin might not bring us the sufficient performance benefit we’d require to make it worthwhile.”
“As you can clearly see, it is a large structure and one that is particularly sensitive to crosswinds.
“We felt that our car already delivers sufficiently in yaw and that continuing to experiment with the dorsal fin might not bring us the sufficient performance benefit we’d require to make it worthwhile.”
"Giancarlo, you are still two seconds a lap slower than Fernando, this cannot be possible you have the same fuel load, I know you have some understeer but you cannot be two seconds slower, COME ON"!!!! - Alan Permane, Fisichella�s race engineer, 2006 Australian Grand Prix
"We're lucky we don't build aeroplanes" - Mark Webber on Red Bulls reliability issues at the Australian Grand Prix 2008.
Nathan is: .............. ??
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