Cottrell's F1 Car [Model]

[Tomba]

My first ever F1 car i have built using Sketch Up i built it for a championship i was in. Im going to let you lot tell me what you think about it and what could be improved and changed. And what is illegal and legal.

[astracrazy]

lets see it then

[CottrellGP]

Go easy on me its my first car and still incomplete.

[CottrellGP]

Im also very new to this and dont know how to upload a picture.

[jordangp]

Looks very nice Dan... missing some wings and wheel rims though

[CottrellGP]

Ive only just realised about the rear rims some more pics up soon and updates

[CottrellGP]

Here is a front view, still very incomplete.

[CottrellGP]

Here is a side view.

[CottrellGP]

And a birds eye view,, more images and updates to come!

[jordangp]

Nice big sidepod cutouts... the intakes look quite big aswell.
Very aggressively angles front suspension also. any reason for this? Looks like they could have been placed much lower down

[CottrellGP]

Higher front suspension with the new rules (no blown diffuser) going to loose a lot of DF so I want the chassis and suspension to be as high a possible to allow more air to go to the diffuser also i want the air to be undisturbed by the suspension.

[CottrellGP]

Remember this car is still very unfinished.

[jordangp]

Surely the suspension components are way above the floor, so wouldn't effect airflow on the underbody? Raising the suspension will disturb more 'clean' airflow, which could have gone to the sidepods. The lower suspension is in the wake of the front wing, reducing the air disturbance. Also, being at such an extreme angle, there is surely a reliability issue that components could easily fail.

[CottrellGP]

Reliability was my main worry, there is a big chance in the second update that the lower wishbone/steering arm will be lowered (and put near the underbody. And not all cars are the same (Aero Wise.

[jordangp]

Ok, with your car the way it is, it'll work fine, but as soon as you put a front wing on it, you're relatively doubling the front wake, which will ruin the flow for the rest of the car