FIA Confirms Brawn GP Stuffing of Ferrari’s Ying Yang
The FIA appeal board has rejected the Ferrari/McLaren appeal regarding the double-level diffusers that Brawn GP and Toyota (and Williams?) used in the first 2 races this season. Thus, startup Brawn keeps Jenson Button’s wins at Australia and Malaysia.
So what’s the big deal? Here’s an article that attempts to explain it, but frankly I think it does a pretty poor job doing so. I’m pretty attuned to race car details these days but the text is somewhat vague (or at best, poorly descriptive). A good graphic illustration rather than a photo would clear things up. Anybody around here understand this and also good with MS Paint?
Men don’t really like open wheel racing. Men like NASCAR, but first and foremost they like tractor pulls and demolition derbys (a.k.k crash up derby)
Comment by Rawdawg — April 17, 2009 @ 11:27 am
Dawg,
I must take exception. There is no finer performing piece of equipment on the planet than an F1 car……NOTHING. The drivers are the best drivers on the planet. Don’t get me wrong. I like left turns too, but the engineering for that racing versus F1 is like comparing your PS1 to my XBOX 360.
Comment by Bung — April 17, 2009 @ 8:09 pm
Gentlemen! Gentlemen! As fine, upstanding born-and-bred Hoosiers, surely we can all agree on this: all racing is great. All racing. Be it circle track or road racing, stock car, late model, dirt, sprint, silver crown, modified, vintage, single-marque, NASA, SCCA, IMSA, Grand Am, Grand National, dune buggy, tractor pull, drag, or garden tractor. You may or may not know that Cipher’s Iron Law of Competition is this: if it has an engine, it is raced. And all racing is great. We may each have our personal preferences and peccadillos, but let’s first agree that all racing is better than no racing. Amen?
Comment by cipher — April 23, 2009 @ 7:35 pm