Ahead of our humongous preview of Formula One’s 2011 field, we thought we’d show you one of the newest and most controversial pieces of new tech for the season in action – the movable rear wing, here shown on the back of the new Sauber.
It’s designed to help drivers follow the car in front more closely and – theoretically, at least – pass them more readily. It can only be used when the chasing car is within one second of the guy in front (the system will be activated automatically), and only after two laps of the race has elapsed. The main wing plane will open up to reduce drag and increase speed, and will close again once the driver hits the brakes.
Our thoughts? Ain’t gonna work. F1 cars had movable front wings for the last two seasons, and none of the drivers used them unless they were dealing with worn front tyres. As well, the drivers will have to deal with the returns of KERS, new Pirelli tyres with a wider gap between compounds… they are going to be busy boys!
It’s too early to call. I think it will work, but it won’t be easy. It will still take an amount of skill. Of course, a well timed KERS boost could well keep the approaching car behind (as I imagine the straights they will be allowed to use the wing won’t be on the longest straight, otherwise it’s useless as the engine pings of the rev limiter).
I thought they were trying to reduce costs for F1, this is just a waste of time and money, if you want closer racing and more overtaking, let the teams choose a tyre compound from, lets say 5 different compounds, but for that compound of tyre they use, they can only use so much downforce, so if you choose the softest compound tyre you can only use the least amount of downforce, and so on.
It will work but results are going to be minimal at best.
Its more like an air brake! and i think it will be connected to the puter rather than another button on the s/wheel
crooza is on the money the 1 tyre rule is bs,all they can do is get their car to behave with that one tyre choice,ok 3 but of the same breed wich usually favours the top teams.
I can see a lot of shredded tyres though,if it fails it has the potential to ruin a new set in a cpl of laps.
Webber 2011………
Isn’t that cheating.
I’ll elborate if the wing works correctly you should in theory be able to have higher downforce on high speed corners and have great down force on low speed corners it won’t inprove acceleration. So in theory it would in affect be cheating that’s on a technacial point of view only.
The one tyre rule is silly and should be canned it only makes for shorter races. I think Red Bull should build the X1 car and say well after all the rule changes we thought this thing was ok scince were adjusting the rules all the time.
Question which driver is the most skilled:
F1 ,Super car,Nascar, Rally Go-cart or road user. My personal choice would be rally because they have more to think about and more challenges but that’s just me.
There is no way the wing will work as intended on a moving car, due to the fact that when moving the wing whilst the car is moving you will ultimatelly be moving the wind as well. And thats where the physics part of the equation comes in. E=MC2
E=Wing M=car speed C=wind squared
Straight away we see that this combination wont work, ive worked out the problem on a bit of paper so that i dont bore everyone reading this blog with maths and science. The result of which is 850Kg downforce at 200Mph in a 40Mph headwind with the wing retracted to 20degrees incline in other words with that downforce on every square inch of the F1 car it would be impossible to go any higher then 240Mph because the resulting downforce of 1800Kg would blow the tyres and crush the carbon-composite body like a break press.
@ Ferrarinaut
Ive worked in avionics designs and principles all my life, i started building paper air planes at 4years of age. Built my first 2man plane out of wood,reinforced cardboard,strings,cables and modified 13b rotary engine made to run on 2 stroke by 14 years of age in my old mans shed. Now i work for boeing and the european space agency im a lift engineer opposite to downforce.
Anyway FERRARINAUT i find your formula interesting, ive applied it to my own calculations and had a simmilar outcome albeit the fact that you didnt include the surface area of the wing or indeed the whole F1 car therefore i took an educated guess by scanning an authentic 1:8 replica F1 toy car with my computer and converting the results to full size spec. My results were within 5% of yours and i must say that im impressed. do you have any other info on aero work? in particular im interested in moving wind?
I have a diploma in moving wind. I cant share 8 years of study and just give all my secrets away but i can tell you that wind moving is a natural process of the human body otherwise known as flatulance or more common name would be a fart.
ive seen a 220mph fart move a 220pound/100kg man precisely 2.5 inches of level ground at sea level (lift), we also conducted the same experiment at 10.000feet above sea level and found that in the thin air a farts charecteristics changed dramatically when the same man was lifted a full 3.4 inches of the ground. Our conclusion was that the ass works like a turbocharger hence the effectiveness at 10.000 feet.
Can you guys upload some data supporting these theorys?
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