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12 May 2006, 17:37 (Ref:1607265)
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Compacting Carbon Fibre
Hi, comments and thoughts sought
 The F1 tech regulations state that the rear wing elements can move by no more than 1cm when a certain weight is pressed upon them (I'm pretty sure thats how I understand it). Would it be possible to place a thin lining between the carbon fibre sheets to make it compact for a high top speed, and to expand at slower speeds to create higher downforce? For example the material used in ear plugs. Would it be feasible? Steve |
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12 May 2006, 18:40 (Ref:1607281)
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yes that may work but you would have to do a lot of R&D to make it deform in the way you want. It would also be cheating
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12 May 2006, 18:45 (Ref:1607289)
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Would it be cheating or stretching the rules?
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12 May 2006, 18:48 (Ref:1607295)
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I'd say "rule interpretation" however, the tech regs are pretty heavy reading so I haven't gone into the ins and outs in much detail.
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12 May 2006, 18:55 (Ref:1607299)
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12 May 2006, 19:03 (Ref:1607307)
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5mm, oh well.
That incorporates the obvious, normal C/F deflection, so no more for my idea. Back to the drawing board... |
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12 May 2006, 22:59 (Ref:1607447)
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F1 is already worried over the amount of flex that teams (at great expence) build, into their wings and things. See this month's Race Tech pp48-53.
According to that, current testing of wing deflection is crude in the extreme - hang a weight on it - so that the regs may be liberalised as they can't be enforced. So you migth be able to have a go, but IMHO this is to achieve that last 0.2% of advantage, and correspondingly expensive to do! John |
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14 May 2006, 22:00 (Ref:1609912)
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i think you have to hide the activation system really clever. So that at the TC i will be on the dimensions as in the regs.
But a nice idea, something to keep in mind. |
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