No F1 thread?

[NotoriousREV]

I guess people will want to see if it actually works. I suspect the advantage is more in tyre life than out and out performance.

[duncs500]

I guess as well, with suspension elements you need to put the safety questions to bed, if they just ran it in Melbourne and there was an issue it wouldn't go down well.

[Orange Cola]

How long before the next track focused supercar has steering column adjustable toe angle?

911 already does it.

[NotoriousREV]

Who had Grosjean in the sweepstake to be the first person to have an actual crash? Oh, everybody.

[NotoriousREV]

How long before the next track focused supercar has steering column adjustable toe angle?

911 already does it.

I haven’t actually checked but I’m going to say no it doesn’t.

[Orange Cola]

I guess people will want to see if it actually works. I suspect the advantage is more in tyre life than out and out performance.

I think they might be looking to off set the additional tyre life with a more aggressive set up, it will at least give them options.

[Orange Cola]

How long before the next track focused supercar has steering column adjustable toe angle?

911 already does it.

I haven’t actually checked but I’m going to say no it doesn’t.

It does. They actively alter the toe of the rear wheels under braking.

[NotoriousREV]

911 already does it.

I haven’t actually checked but I’m going to say no it doesn’t.

It does. They actively alter the toe of the rear wheels under braking.

Yeah, that’s not manually adjusting the toe angle via the steering column, is it? Which is what Duncs said.

[Mito Man]

But not from the steering column

[Orange Cola]

You’re just being picky now

Point is altering toe angles is already out there.

[NotoriousREV]

To be fair, my 996 changed the front toe angle under braking. Until I changed the track rod ends.

[NotoriousREV]

You’re just being picky now

Point is altering toe angles is already out there.

No shit. But that’s not what we’re talking about

[Mito Man]

It’s kind of like everything else in F1, needlessly over complicated because there’s so many rules banning development that even more time and money is spent circumventing them

[NotoriousREV]

Imagine if all the interesting stuff that got banned didn’t get banned and we now had decades of development on things like ground effects, active suspension, big fucking fans etc.

[Mito Man]

The F1 drivers would be wearing G suits

[NotoriousREV]

And we’d have tunnels so they could go upside down

[Orange Cola]

Pretty sure we’d have gone autonomous with the forces involved.

[Mito Man]

I wish Formula E was a full on autonomous series - would be amazing watching AI battling it out and an actual new motorsport which would help road car development.

[jamcg]

Their rear suspension is quite trick too.

I’m surprised they’ve revealed the steering for testing though, other teams may have it in a few races time. Should have just used it in Melbourne.

Possibly revealed early to get the inevitable protests out of the way

[NotoriousREV]

Their rear suspension is quite trick too.

I’m surprised they’ve revealed the steering for testing though, other teams may have it in a few races time. Should have just used it in Melbourne.

Possibly revealed early to get the inevitable protests out of the way

That and, y’know, they needed to test it? During testing?