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4 Feb 2006, 14:01 (Ref:1515457)
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McLaren's Stealth Pod?
F1Racing's testing photos from Feb 3rd show one of the McLarens (Pedros)with an small black pod mounted next to the side pod.
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4 Feb 2006, 14:19 (Ref:1515466)
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4 Feb 2006, 14:22 (Ref:1515468)
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its just a piece of testing equiptment
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4 Feb 2006, 15:36 (Ref:1515501)
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They look like the extra fuel tanks off of a Spitfire
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4 Feb 2006, 16:09 (Ref:1515514)
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As a pure guess, its some kind of tyre camera / sensor device.
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4 Feb 2006, 16:57 (Ref:1515528)
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It seems to have both ends open...???
May be its a monitor/guage/sensor for air flow in that area of the car...?? Cheers Peter |
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4 Feb 2006, 17:33 (Ref:1515537)
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4 Feb 2006, 17:40 (Ref:1515540)
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rocket booster for when their V8 dies
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4 Feb 2006, 17:48 (Ref:1515542)
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Airflow sensors aren't that big though.
Looks more like a particle accelerator cannon for those pesky Renaults. |
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4 Feb 2006, 18:07 (Ref:1515550)
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4 Feb 2006, 18:09 (Ref:1515552)
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Perhaps it's just a better way of deflecting air around the rear tyre.
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5 Feb 2006, 00:21 (Ref:1515720)
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its the handlebars to a carbon fibre, fold away bicycle the drivers will need to ride back to the pits when the car expires at the back of the circuit. This too will suffer constant mechanical failure.
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5 Feb 2006, 00:38 (Ref:1515723)
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A trumpet to play The Last Post for yet another engine detonation...
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5 Feb 2006, 01:15 (Ref:1515730)
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5 Feb 2006, 01:19 (Ref:1515733)
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theres every possibility that it has something to do with thermal imaging of the tyres, as in another thred on this fourm!
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5 Feb 2006, 01:19 (Ref:1515734)
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a mount for the drivers mp3 player...and a packed lunch in case he gets stranded out the back of the track?
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5 Feb 2006, 01:25 (Ref:1515737)
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It's not just Pedro's car either, i've seen the same on Paffett's car too, and on both sides. Have yet to find a decent enough shot of JPM to see if he has or hasn't got anything like it. Given it's position tho, i think it's aero related one way or another. Sticking a gauge in the middle of nowhere like that isn't going to prove anything, esp that size
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5 Feb 2006, 02:20 (Ref:1515747)
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Thermographic camera, so that they can catch the heat plume influence from the engines expolsion on the rear tyres.
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5 Feb 2006, 03:06 (Ref:1515761)
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Maybe they are trying out some Launch Control stuff from NASA??
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5 Feb 2006, 04:19 (Ref:1515771)
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5 Feb 2006, 17:46 (Ref:1516020)
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Guage to determine the Venturi effect for the air diffusion between the rear wheel and tub
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5 Feb 2006, 17:55 (Ref:1516025)
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There was a thread about these last year. Williams ran something similar on their roll-hoops last winter.
Like several peoplr have said, it was concluded that they are aero measuring devices. |
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5 Feb 2006, 18:16 (Ref:1516044)
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If the Williams thing is the same thing I'm thinking of, It's a high deffinition camera (as in better than the FIA ones) for TV adverts they did at the time
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5 Feb 2006, 18:30 (Ref:1516052)
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5 Feb 2006, 18:37 (Ref:1516060)
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no no no that's something else yet again. They had a pod which looked exactly like this one but on top of the car.
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