The rule on the volumes prevent any shield, because in the vertical cross section (taken perpendicular to the centerline) you have to have the mini radius and tangent continuous curve.Conceptual wrote:Put a bridge wing and a shark fin on it, and lets go racing!
And I think that we are going to see ALOT of gray area on the sidepods next year. There isnt any rules specifically preventing sidepod shields that I have read. It is all going to come down to how it is integrated into the sidepod, and its radius.
If I am wrong, please show me the rule, because I remember reading through thinking that they werent going to lose much more than the barge boards, and some coke-bottle shaping to the sidepods.
The front wing on the Williams looks feeble, but a bridge would straighten it right out!
bridges are forbidden in the virtue of the bodywork rule stating that no aerofoil or any closed longitudinal cross section may be in the area of the nose.