Force India VJM05

[Schizm]

[FakeAlonso]

[Red Schneider]

An innovative solution to a rear downforce shortage.

[FrukostScones]

nice shot of the rear

[marcush.]

Force Indias Endplate design now really converging towards Macs solution.. some technology transfer happening here instead of copy from competitors?

[JayeOFarrell]

From that photo they look to be running an awful lot of positive camber, perhaps they are trying to find some cornering stability?

[Joie de vivre]

you mean negative camber

[Diff-user]

From that photo they look to be running an awful lot of positive camber, perhaps they are trying to find some cornering stability?

ya i think you mean negative camber. and that amount of camber is quite common in F1. look carefully at ground level shots of any F1 car in the past few decades and you'll notice it. And its there to increase the contact patch of the outside front while cornering not exactly for cornering stability just for higher cornering speeds. Positive camber was more common in the olden days when steering stability at high speeds and bumpy tracks was more important.

[JayeOFarrell]

Ahh thank you. I have just had a lecture on this but the lecturer said he was a little rusty because it had been a while since he had taught it. I'll inform him he has got positive and negative the wrong way round

[lotus7]

Ahh thank you. I have just had a lecture on this but the lecturer said he was a little rusty because it had been a while since he had taught it. I'll inform him he has got positive and negative the wrong way round

Our experience is also that radial ply requires more neg camber than x-plies . Any comments on that ?

[Mandrake]

Just for my clarification, you talk about the front camber, not the rear camber right?

[JayeOFarrell]

I was talking about front camber, I should have been clearer. Because of the photo the front left wheel’s camber seemed to be either aggressive or exaggerated.

[marcush.]

I was talking about front camber, I should have been clearer. Because of the photo the front left wheel’s camber seemed to be either aggressive or exaggerated.

camber? i´d say the rear tyres are toast in that picture so that´s the interesting bit...considering the fronts look fine.

[JayeOFarrell]

They do look a little worse for wear compared to the fronts.

[FrukostScones]

sweet pics
http://clausell-f1.com/?page_id=229