CaterhamF1 CT-01 Renault

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Owen.C93 wrote:There's plenty of other photos of the cars having similar vortices of the rear wing on that site, so just bear that in mind before the tin foil hats are put on.
+1, be careful what one calls "impossible" at risk of exposing lack of knowledge/credibility.

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gilgen wrote:
n smikle wrote:
Those vortices look photoshopped on for some reason.
Agreed. The offside rear 'vortex' is well away from the wing, and the nearside 'vortex' sppears to be from forward of the wing. And that one in front of the rear wheel? Impossible to be a 'vortex'!
It could be the upper vortex form the bargeboard, or the inside vortex from the front wing flap.
Could be photoshopped of course, but it does not seem too unrealistic.
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shelly wrote:
gilgen wrote:
n smikle wrote:
Those vortices look photoshopped on for some reason.
Agreed. The offside rear 'vortex' is well away from the wing, and the nearside 'vortex' sppears to be from forward of the wing. And that one in front of the rear wheel? Impossible to be a 'vortex'!
It could be the upper vortex form the bargeboard, or the inside vortex from the front wing flap.
Could be photoshopped of course, but it does not seem too unrealistic.
Not that it changes too much, but Scarbs tweeted the picture of the Caterham & it seems he knows the photographer well. Not sure a professional photographer would really photoshop vortices on work their selling, but of course I can't be sure.

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Slightly OT, but I don't think those vortices are photoshopped.
See this image of the MP4-26 from Korea last year: http://www.formula1.com/wi/0x0/sutton/2 ... kor722.jpg

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As I said plenty others on that octane site for you to browse.
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MIKEY_!
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Looks like a very low DF wing (or maybe the adjusters are just set right back). Looks like they are making the pylons that attach to the nose longer as well.

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Low downforce makes no sense at Melbourne...

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raymondu999
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AoA is hardly an indicator of downforce level when smething is in "storage mode." It only takes a few seconds to bring that up. The peripheral aerofoils however are a different story.
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MIKEY_!
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Yes the top flap has been wound back for storage (not sure why they'd bother to be honest)

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The bit sticking out on the inner edge of the flap would probably hit the lid otherwise
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That's not the new front wing, it's the one from 2011. They took a 2010 front wing to Melbourne last year as well (smart move, Chandhok broke it).

Another shot of 2011 wing
http://www.flickr.com/photos/caterhamf1 ... /lightbox/

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I don't remember the 2010 wing having the bit sticking out on the inner edge of the flap. Btw, is Chandhok still a Caterham driver?
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raymondu999 wrote:I don't remember the 2010 wing having the bit sticking out on the inner edge of the flap. Btw, is Chandhok still a Caterham driver?
I'm not saying it's the 2010 wing, I'm saying it's the 2011 wing ;) Chandhok is no longer at Caterham.

Here are the front wings they have used so far:

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Barcelona 2010 onwards
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2011 low downforce circuits (Montreal & Monza)
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Sorry - I meant; I don't remember the 2011 wing having those.
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