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Friday, November 04, 2005

And now, a CDG wing in the works


What you see here gentlemen, is not a mug shot of Ralf Schumacher's car taken after his spectacular crash into the famous Oval Bank at Indianapolis but Max and his minions at work, in an attempt to reduce air turbulence and thereby help increase overtaking. And this, as a result of Max Mosley, the famed monkey from Monaco conducting a survey and being surprised of the outcome - that racing fans wanted to see more overtaking! And so, in his attempt to cater to this, he appoints a couple of his minions and some geeks from a chip manufacturing company to help design a new wing that would effectively reduce the already scarce advertising real-estate available on F1 cars. And ofcourse, Max is so extremely short sighted that he does not see important sponsorship money being placed in jeopardy by this new "radical" design.


Some questions about the "Centreline Downwash Generating Wing" ::

A novice at aerodynamics, but I would still like to see and know if there are two areas of turbulence (over the two smaller wings). The FIA does not talk of this, nor has it given images other than along the vertical plane along the center line.

Even to the naked eye, it seems as though the wings are too close to the rear tyres. (EvenGiles Villeneuve's Ferrari had two wings, but they were way above.) So, did the FIA take into consideration the amount of debris that would be flying on the track if a tyre flattens out and manages to make contact with one of these wings?

Was any top F1 team involved with AMD while it conducted the computational fluid dynamic tests? Or was it just grandpa Max lovingly accpeting the play-car model that his minions have doled out?

Does AMD own a wind-tunnel? Does FIA own one? I am sure that neither Todt (Ferrari) or he Ronster(McLaren) would allow Max's minions to set foot inside the sanctum sanctorum's of F1 technology - a state of the art wind-tunnel.

Does AMD have any previous experience of having designed aerodynamic packages? Don't come up with "NASCAR" - those are bulky 3000 pound tractors that dole out 750 horsepower as against the 950 hp wrung out by a 1300 pound F1 rocketship.

The CDG Wing - reminds me of Williams' (an astounding 16 time WCC) who have come up with awful yet innovative and money-guzzling aero packages time and again - LMAO!

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