Quote Originally Posted by airshifter View Post



Bagwan,

I don't think they will be all that bad. As the demo car shows, they won't have any major protrusion out over the tire, and attachmnt points are to the inside. The only thing that would rip them off would likely be something going over the wheel itself, and usually in that case things have gone bad already. Overall there should be a lot fewer small bits subject to launch on car contact or a heavy curb hit, which is a good thing IMHO.
Point taken on "things have gone bad already" , but I'm seeing trouble coming from curb hits as I can't quite imagine how they'll be able to completely stop them from slapping the top of the tires when a driver gets it just slightly wrong .
It's probably fortunate that they will be running the 18 inchers , as it seems more workable with less movement out of the tire , itself , but it looks to me to still be a hard ask to keep them in place on all the cars out there .

I do like the look of less furniture on the cars though .

But , it looks more like a moveable aerodynamic device to me than does a mass damper , for example .
It doesn't look like "open wheel" racing .