2014 F1 Mechanics/Aero; Design predictions to win the WCC/WDC. READ FIRST POST

I don't see any real reason for the info panels to exist considering the F1 app can give you all the information and more. Plus, it seems rather small, so I doubt it would even be visible from the stands.
 
Rather than the LED display on the Info Wing - why don't they put a standard font white number for the car. That way fans and marshals will be able to work out which car it is - especially with the silly personal numbers.
 
I don't see any real reason for the info panels to exist considering the F1 app can give you all the information and more. Plus, it seems rather small, so I doubt it would even be visible from the stands.

I agree... up until now I'd thought it was a feature for onboard cameras simply because I couldn't see the sense in something visible from the stands. But nor could I see the sense it not just adding to the video feed. Ach so, that's me told :D

In other F1'14 tech news, there's a roundup of the season from Alan "So Interesting" McNish. Once comment jumped out at me;

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In 2002, when I was driving for Toyota in F1, we used something like 440 engines in the course of the season. This year, teams are limited to five. What a difference that is.

It certainly is (although they're limited to 10, actually).

EDIT: So interesting I fell asleep before posting the link :D
 
With the sneaky approach to forcing through changes to engine regulations having failed them, the engine manufacturers are now considering the downright underhanded method:

http://m.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117089/mercedes-rivals-eye-engine-loophole

Go ahead I say, it's F1 nothing new here and this spice of life type stuff is quite needed compared to the crap Bernie is currently doing. If you want your business to flourish I say this type of drama in the main area of F1 (technical build-up/engineering) is needed. I actually hope it works out for these teams and thus keeps MBP-AMG on their feet.

I support them but I'd like to see other drivers/teams challenge them next year. Maybe it's me wanting to see the young Daniel Ricciardo win a WDC. Though I'm sure you're opposed to seeing RBR back in that frame of victory so soon, PM.
 
Seeing (rumors) pop up just now that Bernie is proposing a return of the V10. Only sources currently is an Italian website and .... motorsport.com

Will wait to see if anything legitimately substantial shows up.
 
Bernie has been trying to shut the move towards hybrids down since they were first put forward. His inability to get them rejected stands out as his only real failure as commercial rights director. He will face huge resistance from engine manufacturers who have sunk hundreds of millions of dollars - if not more - into the current engines.
 
Bernie has been trying to shut the move towards hybrids down since they were first put forward. His inability to get them rejected stands out as his only real failure as commercial rights director. He will face huge resistance from engine manufacturers who have sunk hundreds of millions of dollars - if not more - into the current engines.

He also tried to get the move to six cylinder engines shut down as well, with his buddy and Former Ferrari head LDM. He failed at that too, and now thinks he can bring back V10s.
 
No reputable sources reported on Bernie's V10 wants, so I'm going to guess it never actually happened.

Well F1fanatic is where I saw the posting, and beside the fact of what I already just retold PM (since he was aware) that the guy wanted V6 engines to not happen nor V4 or I4...not much else to say.

http://www.pitpass.com/53120/Ecclestone-pushing-for-return-to-V8s-or-V10s-or-anything
http://f1today.net/en/news/ecclestone-to-propose-v8-or-v10-comeback-for-2016

Also should I change the title to 2015 or make a new thread?
 
Pat Fry should have gone before LdM and Stefano, as for the picture of the big five from Ferrari, someone should post it up again cause they're all gone now with this latest report.
 
You know what's worse is the list or of people I showed being hired at Ferrari earlier in this thread that have either left or don't seem to be around anymore and I believe the list is far bigger in the previous version of this thread the 2012 f1 aero design. So we'll see what happens but it doesn't look like their prediction of being back on top by 2016 is anything to bet on.
 
Waiting for a 2015 thread. I'll put it here. This was posted on Ice Man's Facebook. I see a W05 like bottom wishbone. RB10 nose tip/endplate design.

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Waiting for a 2015 thread. I'll put it here. This was posted on Ice Man's Facebook. I see a W05 like bottom wishbone. RB10 nose tip/endplate design.

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This solution is outlawed by 2015 technical regulations however, so I seriously doubt this is being considered. In fact the nose design on the F14 T was the only one in the field that will still be legal if it were used next season. Mercedes's solution is actually illegal, as the nose is too short and too high.
 
I thought that the Mercedes 2014 nose was illegal because of the mounting points and the distance the nose extends forwards. I think they just need to make it 50mm further forward relative to the front wing.
 
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