Ride Height Management - Lotus Renault Innovation?

[gloomyDAY]

Good! This is what F1 is all about. I was sore about Brawn GP and that loophole that Honda had found while manufacturing their chassis. Fact of the matter is that the loophole was there and full advantage was taken of the rulebook. Now, I hope that both Kimi and Grosjean can run with it and take it to the other teams.

[wedge]

Sure, but if it does not 'fit' with your brake cooling concept, then you have to re-design the whole kit and kaboodle. What about suspension geometry etc. Not just a plug and play episode, not by a long chalk.

RBR usually - and recently STR run low calipers



Oh, it took Lotus the best part of a year to perfect it because of cracking issues.

[TheFamousEccles]

Nice detail shot, wedge. I wish I could make the calipers on my toys as clean as this! I suppose it helps if you have them made for you from unobtainium and assemble the things in a workshop cleaner than most operating theatres!!

[SGWilko]

Nice detail shot, wedge. I wish I could make the calipers on my toys as clean as this! I suppose it helps if you have them made for you from unobtainium and assemble the things in a workshop cleaner than most operating theatres!!

Isn't unobtainium unobtainable?

[TMorel]

Isn't unobtainium unobtainable?

I think you can get it from Tesco.

Am I right in thinking most of the teams have withdrawn from the spending cap? I see Renault took a year to solve the cracking issue but are the big boys allowed to now throw money at things like this to solve the problem?

[CNR]

Ferrari has developed its own reactive ride-height system for 2012 F1 car - F1 news - AUTOSPORT.com
Ferrari has developed its own reactive ride-height system for 2012 F1 car

[SGWilko]

I think you can get it from Tesco.

Am I right in thinking most of the teams have withdrawn from the spending cap? I see Renault took a year to solve the cracking issue but are the big boys allowed to now throw money at things like this to solve the problem?

Whilst some teams may no longer wish to be members of FOTA and have submitted their intentions to leave, the RRA, which I think is legally binding, runs until 2014 IIRC.