simply put -a lot less man hours have been spent before the design freeze of the chassis was finalised.This will of course have an influence on all interfaces -be it structural ,electrical,hydraulic ,aerodynamic.turbof1 wrote:Caterham seems already to have crashtested it's car, according to AMuS:
http://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/form ... 23270.html
(Note that the article was written on November 23th)
Remember, half the battle for these teams is convincing the advertisers that they actually have enough money to make the whole season happen. By crash testing early, they're saying "look, parts are already in production, we're well on our way, we'll be on the grid".marcush. wrote:simply put -a lot less man hours have been spent before the design freeze of the chassis was finalised.This will of course have an influence on all interfaces -be it structural ,electrical,hydraulic ,aerodynamic.turbof1 wrote:Caterham seems already to have crashtested it's car, according to AMuS:
http://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/form ... 23270.html
(Note that the article was written on November 23th)
I f you suddenly realise your aero concept does not work due to a wrong chassis shape ina critical area ,or one of your design boffins comes up with a great idea needing a bit of tweaking of chssis shape -you are stuck for a whole year...
I do not see the sense of commisioning parts too early when you don´t need to .
But maybe they are a bit ambitious in some area of weight or shape and fear to not pass first time ?
What's "too early" then? Track testing starts in January. Once you have a design for some big composite piece there's the lead time on all the tooling, positive/negative molds, the actual fabrication itself, certification, more fabrication, maybe spending time on K&C rig etc etc. Plus how many other systems and components depend on the chassis design being frozen so their design phase can be complete?marcush. wrote:I do not see the sense of commisioning parts too early when you don´t need to .
according to somebody's interpretation. this is another interpretation, and quite frankly, i think this one looks more interesting, and i feel like may even be more correct.astracrazy wrote:but if you look above the shape of the nose has already been revealed...
great, it looks very interesting and i think looks even more realistic then the above one,zioture wrote:I got this frame from video
http://www.newsf1.it/wp-content/uploads ... heram1.jpg
then i I drawed the frame by tracing the shape of the frame
http://www.newsf1.it/wp-content/uploads ... heram2.jpg
So I got this shape side view
http://www.newsf1.it/wp-content/uploads ... eram32.jpg
http://www.newsf1.it/