The teams designing Formula 1 racing car of the future design of the jets land. (free internet rights / Ferrari's official website)
In May 2015, high-ranking F1 has outlined the regulatory changes to make racing cars more challenging, fast, and visually spectacular.
Formula 1 teams are already working to have a car that could make them have the speed, but without sacrificing the financial side or also endanger riders.
Red Bull, the team who lost their power over the track and replaced Mercedes Formula 1, submitted a proposal which is considered attractive by other teams. Their draft involves the front wing of the car a wider, namely along the 1850 mm, or 200 mm longer than those currently used.
Rear wing of the car will be experiencing the same changes, with the length of the new design is 950 milli meters high and 800 millimeters (wider and lower than the original).
Quoted from Motorsport.com, the other changes that have been agreed upon is a matter of design tires larger than it is today as a way to offset the advantage of the aerodynamic wing design changes.
Tires that will be used in 2017 is the tire has a width of 300 millimeters (mm) in front and 400 mm at the rear. Currently the tire has a width of 245 mm in front and 325 mm rear tire.
Drafts is believed will make the race more interesting because the car will run faster in each round six seconds of the previous mark.
According to Pat Symonds, a member of the team who designed the new regulations, this idea will make the car look like a car from a classic era which is larger. And this is what will underpin the design of a Formula 1 car in the future.
"I think the car will look quite different, and you will be able to see genes that will shape the future of the car," said Symonds was quoted as saying by Sky Sports.
This design not only well received, especially from the rider.
2015 world champion, Lewis Hamilton, said that the new draft will indeed give riders aerodynamic advantage, but do not necessarily make the race more interesting. He argues that this design will make it increasingly difficult to overtake riders, especially because the rider closer to the car in front of him, then he would likely encounter turbulence.
"From the standpoint of the drivers, all we want is a stronger grip on our tires. We would like turbulence interference from the car in front of us is reduced, so that we could be closer," Hamilton said as quoted by Sky Sports.
The same thing was said by Gary Anderson, a former F1 car designer who has now retired. According to him, the new draft does not resolve the issue most important in F1, namely the need for tougher competition in the race.
In addition to revealing the reasons are similar to Hamilton about turbulence, Anderson also mentions that the wider body of the car will make the task rider in overtaking more difficult, because there is little room for maneuver.
"In any change in the regulations, which should be done first is to identify the problem and fix it," Anderson said as quoted by Autosport.
"I'm not sure that they have actually done."
(CNN)
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