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Thread: The DeltaWing lives
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19th March 2012, 15:13 #121
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Originally Posted by anthonyvop
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19th March 2012, 15:51 #122
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Keep it fast, keep it real!!!
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19th March 2012, 16:04 #123Originally Posted by FIAT1
Gary"If you think there's a solution, you're part of the problem." --- George Carlin :andrea: R.I.P.
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19th March 2012, 16:46 #124
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Have you seen it make a hair-pin turn ? I havent and I havent heard anyone say they have either. I would love to see this monstrosity make the sharp hair pin at Long Beach. It would look ridiculously stupid doing it and extremely slow at making it.....lol
Danica Patrick- 2013 Sprint Cup Series Champion
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19th March 2012, 16:54 #125Originally Posted by DanicaFan
Gary"If you think there's a solution, you're part of the problem." --- George Carlin :andrea: R.I.P.
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19th March 2012, 17:04 #126Originally Posted by DanicaFan
I'm looking forward to seeing this car in action. I have no current opinion either way on whether this car will work on all types of circuit. For information I hold a Masters Degree in Physics with Astrophysics, and a PhD in Computational Fluid Dynamics. I've also done a little bit of automotive CFD in my time.
Whether it works or not, this car will leave a lot of people looking stupid on either side of the fence.
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19th March 2012, 17:11 #127
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Im not an engineer but with a long nose on a car like that, commen sense kicks in that it could not make a sharp turn. Its not physically possible. It would have to go wide.
Danica Patrick- 2013 Sprint Cup Series Champion
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19th March 2012, 17:18 #128
To quote Gordon Kirby in that article - "Imagine yourself fifty or sixty years ago as a fan of the beautiful Indy roadsters of the late 50s and early 60s or the classic Maserati 250F, Mercedes-Benz W196 or Dino Ferrari Formula One cars from the mid-fifties. If I suggested to you that those superb cars were about to be replaced by an invasion of tiddly little rear-engine Coopers and Lotuses you would have said I was crazy. But it happened, almost overnight, between 1958-'61 in F1 and 1963-'66 in Indy cars. "
Common sense means nothing in Engineering. The Indy boys in the early 60s would have looked at rear-engined cars and laughed their heads off. They were soon laughing on the other side of their faces when they got blown away by rear-engined cars. Go back in time to the 1910s and show someone an A380 and they would think you were mental if you suggested that thing could fly. We only perceive the Delta Wing car to be ridiculous because it is a radical concept. It may work, it may not work. If it does work you can be sure that it will be adopted pretty sharpish by manufacturers as a lot of its technology seems to be relevant to what really matters - cars that will be on the road in future.
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19th March 2012, 17:24 #129
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19th March 2012, 18:13 #130
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Hi, anyone have experience with this route https://mapy.cz/s/bedudugeme from Oschiri to Monte Lerno stage - hairpin on 17km from start? If it´s doable by normal car? Thanks.
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