Caterham CT-05 Renault

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Just... wow! What an awesome project!

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torrent pretty please? :wink:

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What amazing photographs and design documents. It's fantastic that Caterham have released these to a member of the public. Having all the moulds too will allow replacement parts to be built which can be a problem when maintaining old or one off cars.

Interesting layout of the peddles. Why are there two peddles per side? Does this give two different levels of braking and acceleration? What is the purpose?

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There isn't, its the peddle set up for each driver overlaid for comparison.

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Wow, that is a fair bit of difference for each driver. I assumed they'd just move the whole assembly back and forth, not design a different one for each driver. I guess this is Formula-1 and they always find the expensive way to do things ;)

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Just found this photo of the gearbox on Twitter:

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i like this...but come back caterham f1...
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The oil coolers appear as large or larger than the water coolers. This seems unique to the current formula.

In the 4th image, above the coil spring: What do ASCA & HALS stand for? Was this remote suspension element?

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roon wrote:The oil coolers appear as large or larger than the water coolers. This seems unique to the current formula.

In the 4th image, above the coil spring: What do ASCA & HALS stand for? Was this remote suspension element?
Looking at those oil coolers I'm not surprised this car had such large sidepods. Yet their reliability was still poor AFAIR...
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Very interesting article on Mr. Thomas' website. Amazingly it says that the rear bellhousing had "space to spare". Looks like very poor packaging indeed.
http://www.caterhamf1.co.uk/2.html
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ScrewCaptain27 wrote:Very interesting article on Mr. Thomas' website. Anazingly it says that the rear bellhousing had "space to spare". Looks like very poor packaging indeed.
http://www.caterhamf1.co.uk/2.html
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You also don't know when Caterham actually got access to the final design information for the Renault PU. Considering their financial status I imagine negotiations were lengthy!

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mrluke wrote:You also don't know when Caterham actually got access to the final design information for the Renault PU. Considering their financial status I imagine negotiations were lengthy!
Makes sense I suppose, but I'm still quite surprised by some of the design choices.
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