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F1 abandons rain wheel cover idea after latest test (www.motorsport.com)
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[-] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Honestly I think they just need to give up, quit making extreme wets and say that poor viability do to rain will red flag a race.

Not only do the defusers pick up more water than the tires. They make the rain a mist. The low pressure from the defuser is going to make bit drops into little ones it would be almost fog like.

[-] highduc@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

That's the saddest possible outcome imo. I hope they come up with a better solution, not give up entirely.

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 points 5 months ago

As long as we still have ground effect cars I sadly don't see another outcome. The entire point of the regulations was having diffusers that throw the dirty air vertically behind the car, which in theory reduces the amount of turbulence on ground level (which would make following easier). And we saw this working at the start of 2022.

Sadly, this also creates the huge rooster tails of water when the track is wet, and it's sort of unavoidable. The only options, then, are either red flagging or re-evaluating the level of acceptable risk. And there is just no way F1 are going to do the latter in this day and age.

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

So this idea from c/formuladank is still on the table then, yea?

[-] vin@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 5 months ago

Could we just make the cars smaller please? Like 2008 size?

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