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BBC Sport - Formula 1: Williams reveal new 'anteater' nose

 

Not sure about this......

 

Does look better from this angle and I do like the nose not stuck up in the air...

 

Lotus......

 

Lotus looks like they have found a way around the new nose rules before the season even starts. It looks like the nose has the same limited width right at the front, but divided into left and right halves that are also the front wind struts.

Clever buggers. Or cheats, depending on your point of view......

 

Lotus's engine builder is even scratching their collective heads....


Jan.24 (GMM) Not testing at Jerez next week is a setback for Lotus.

That is the view of the team's engine supplier Renault, despite Lotus saying it will not be disadvantaged by the absence because other users of the French engine - Red Bull, Toro Rosso and Caterham - will be in southern Spain collecting shared data.

But Rob White, Renault's technical chief, said that reasoning is not quite right.

"The basic power unit is the same for all of the clients," he is quoted by Italy's Omnicorse, "and the information will be shared.

"But each installation is unique," he insisted.

"Of course, simulations are possible," White added, "but you can't understand everything with simulations alone."

 

Here's an idea: What if there was a slot just where the tea try hits the body. It could channel air through the car to then mix with the hot air that has gone through the cooling system. Then vent it out over the top of the diffuser to create some down force. The higher speed cool air would also act as an extractor for the hot air increasing the flow through the cooling system.

 

The McLaren could look worse.

I don't think there's anything in the rules stating they have to stick with the same nose, as long as a new one passes the crash tests.

 

Kind of looks like a big phallic symbol, huh?

 

I wonder if the shorter fork is less of a crash structure and more of an air channeler. If it's not as robust as the longer one, then in an impact the long one can take the force, and the short one disintegrates instantly. That way if it's not a straight on impact, the short one can get out of the way before the long one starts to work. They could be doing it that way to save weight.