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Why not?
This would make F1s developments more road cars related.

how would a minimum ride height have any effect at all on trying to make a purebred race machine any more road relevant?

Why not require racing horses to have a harness that you can hook a plow too that would make them more work relevant right?

A more enforceable idea would be to simply install speed bumps on the tracks.

flynfrog wrote:how would a minimum ride height have any effect at all on trying to make a purebred race machine any more road relevant?

Why not require racing horses to have a harness that you can hook a plow too that would make them more work relevant right?

Simple

Min ride height could develop a road car using exactly the same suspension of an F1 while keeping stressed engine and transmission.
The basic F1 undepinnings will remain the same only with enclosed wheels, a windshield a more tractable engine and maybe 2 or even 3 seats McLaren F1 style.

On the whole, racecar - particularly F1 - development is not relevant to road car development. Never has been, never will be, and shouldn't be.

A great portion of the suspension in an F1 car is in fact the tires.

Ironically, about the only thing F1 cars have in common with a Toyota Echo is the sidewall profile.

I just don't get the whole 'for speedbumps' thing. It sounds like you want F1 to engineer a way for you to drive over them at any speed, kind of defeating the porpoise.

I don't really know why you would want to go over speed bumps in any race car, how ever aren't speed bumps different widths and hieghts, thereby making it impossible to set a standard ride hieght?

I can see it in my head! "HRT fails FIA-required speedbump test"

g-force_addict wrote:
Min ride height could develop a road car using exactly the same suspension of an F1 while keeping stressed engine and transmission.
The basic F1 undepinnings will remain the same only with enclosed wheels, a windshield a more tractable engine and maybe 2 or even 3 seats McLaren F1 style.

A production car has a completely different set of parameters a common ride height will do nothing to bring them closer. A production car suspension is built around low production cost and driver comfort. F1 is built around max corner speed and keeping the chassis level.


Try more reading less posting.

Try more reading less posting.

Second that.