BAR 007 Launched

Post by **Big Kev** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 3:49 am

Try and look a bit more awkward Jenson.

Coopz · Post by **Coopz** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:05 am

Looks alright, nothing really amazing.
How short is Takuma?
Bloody Button is only 5`8
:P

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:36 am

yeah I saw this yesterday... and yeah I think it's nothing spectacular.

I can see the front wing having a bit more downforce with it being lower, but looks really wierd and there seems to be nothing really flash about the rest of the design.

hope they still take it to ferrari as team no2 though

Exar Kun · Post by **Exar Kun** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:40 am

Last year's car looked nothing flash either. For that matter, neither did the F2004. We certainly have no way of telling how fast an F1 car is by how it looks. I do, howver, like the front wing - looks kind of funky and anything that helps you tell the cars apart besides their shape is a good thing in my opinion.

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:06 am

Meh, not a lot of flashyness in that car. So far the Sauber is the best looking car.

w00dsy · Post by **w00dsy** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 6:28 pm

Scottie wrote: hope they still take it to ferrari as team no2 though

Some patriotic bloke you are

Post by **Big Kev** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:00 pm

Coopz wrote:Looks alright, nothing really amazing.
How short is Takuma?
Bloody Button is only 5`8
:P

He's 1.63 m or 5ft 4.5in in old money

Short arse

spoonsports · Post by **spoonsports** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:18 pm

front wing very different...looks like a ruler job

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:46 pm

lol, a ruler with a fucken head dint...

maybe the guy saw one of the ugly lady pics in the adult forum and spilt coffee on his design, so worked around it and said, hmm, looks good, it'll do

Rots · Post by **Rots** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 11:48 am

I reckon its a pooper scooper front wing

Takumi · Post by **Takumi** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 1:41 pm

i would imagine in theory having that scoop down in the spoiler provides more surface along it.. = more downforce i reckon. imagine if you straightened that dent out, the spoiler would be alot wider.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 6:43 pm

yup, it would be longer tak... but I think it will produce more downforce due to it's proximity to the ground more so than surface area, because the force is downwards, and with the sides of that dip not flat, more downforce might not eventuate... but I aren't an aerodynamacist

Montey · Post by **Montey** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 6:51 pm

Scottie wrote:yup, it would be longer tak... but I think it will produce more downforce due to it's proximity to the ground more so than surface area, because the force is downwards, and with the sides of that dip not flat, more downforce might not eventuate... but I aren't an aerodynamacist

The only reason I am aware of why you run things as close to the ground as possible is because the closer the car is to the ground the faster the air tarvelling uder the car goes. The faster the air goes under the car the more of a vacume it creates, sticking the car to the ground harder.

But I quesion how much of an effect an area 1 foot by 1 foot is going to have in sucking the car to the ground, v's the angle of the front wings which are pushing the car to the ground. In fact because of the angles requird to get the wing down to that level they are loosing surface area for that wing/pushing down effect.

w00dsy · Post by **w00dsy** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 6:53 pm

Scottie wrote:but I aren't an aerodynamacist

Or an english teacher

SamC · Post by **SamC** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 7:05 pm

Hey , Where's the S2 skin!? cmon