Owen.C93 wrote:The side pod openings look like the virgin car in that mock-up.
Those sidepods look like these:
Owen.C93 wrote:The side pod openings look like the virgin car in that mock-up.
donskar wrote:
Is it the color red that you hate? Allergic to pasta? Parents threw meatballs at you when you were a child?
Jingoism is not limited to the British.
Happy New Year anyway.
Makes sense. Who knows, if KERS becomes an important part of F1, maybe another manufacturer (Toyota?) will return. At this point, with so much frozen, what can manufacturers add to an F1 car that will drive sales or at least marketing? "Brand XYZ wins WCC because of XYZ's advanced aero solutions! (You can't see it, but trust us its there.)"747heavy wrote:something like this?
I think, they flirted with a mechanical/electric solution before:
http://www.themotorreport.com.au/22609/ ... ue-in-2015
as long as the 400kJ/60kW rule is in place, I think a battery solution is lighter/the better compromise.
If the FIA allows more storage capacity, flywheel solutions will become interesting.
But somehow, I have a hunch that most of the OEM´s will lobby within the FIA against it. Look at what most OEM´s use in their road cars, so the have a strong incentive to make sure the same technology is used/showcased in F1.
Actually, that's only the CVT gearbox (with Torotrak drive) for a purely mechanical KERS system. The gear at the center of the assembly is the drive feature to the car's gearbox. You can see this system with the flywheel here:747heavy wrote:something like this?
Why do I have the impression your gearbox is pretty much like this one shown above and already available?autogyro wrote:Of course all this apart from batteries can be built into a gearbox using a new generation geartrain, hmmmm.
Then you no longer need seperate MGUs, flywheel or main clutch.
This is a toloroidal TVT gearbox, driving a flywheel in a vacuum.Agenda_Is_Incorrect wrote:Why do I have the impression your gearbox is pretty much like this one shown above and already available?autogyro wrote:Of course all this apart from batteries can be built into a gearbox using a new generation geartrain, hmmmm.
Then you no longer need seperate MGUs, flywheel or main clutch.
And based on a mechanical flywheel KERS some kind of reduction is very desirable. A full electric gearbox system maybe wouldn't need it, but that is available since the 70's with diesel trains. So I guess it's you trying to sell air as a magical gas again. Start selling the global cooling idea instead, it's the next trend in conning.