Post by Wß on Jul 17, 2017 12:56:54 GMT
Figured I'd create a thread since this seems to be coming in one way shape or form. I'd posted this in another place but would love to get the opinion from you guys having seen it live on track. How did it "look" to you?
This is probably one of the clearest images I've seen. This is by far the best looking and it still looks like crap. Why?
Well, here's the deal, everything that isn't integrated into the car as part of the chassis design for that car is going to look like an afterthought. The T bars look like an afterthought, the camera mounts look like and afterthought, these aren't safety devices but if you think of the screens in a similar way, it will show that whatever they come up with is going to look horrible.
So what's the solution? They homologate the entire piece surrounding the driver and make that a standard portion of the chassis and have the manufacturers build cars from there with that section that encompasses the driver's bubble frozen in the same way that the center section of the front wing is frozen for development. It's going to be unfair to judge these one off solutions we've been looking at for two years now, they're all going to look horrible. Despite this one looking as least not that horrible, and despite all of the functionality questions, it's always going to look like an afterthought.
A better solution IMO is to create a certain crashworthyness testing that teams have to pass (the way the do for noses) and have the teams build a solution around that as part of an integral design from the beginning. It would be more costly, but what isn't in F1?
This is probably one of the clearest images I've seen. This is by far the best looking and it still looks like crap. Why?
Well, here's the deal, everything that isn't integrated into the car as part of the chassis design for that car is going to look like an afterthought. The T bars look like an afterthought, the camera mounts look like and afterthought, these aren't safety devices but if you think of the screens in a similar way, it will show that whatever they come up with is going to look horrible.
So what's the solution? They homologate the entire piece surrounding the driver and make that a standard portion of the chassis and have the manufacturers build cars from there with that section that encompasses the driver's bubble frozen in the same way that the center section of the front wing is frozen for development. It's going to be unfair to judge these one off solutions we've been looking at for two years now, they're all going to look horrible. Despite this one looking as least not that horrible, and despite all of the functionality questions, it's always going to look like an afterthought.
A better solution IMO is to create a certain crashworthyness testing that teams have to pass (the way the do for noses) and have the teams build a solution around that as part of an integral design from the beginning. It would be more costly, but what isn't in F1?
