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Re:The Ingenious F1 Wing Trick That Helped Oscar Piastri Win... by cromulent on Friday September 27, 2024 @01:14AM (#41666503)
I don't think it's that ingenious - many teams have been working on the wing flex for a long time. Red Bull famously in 2011 and 2017 for example.

The McLaren F-duct, the Mercedes toe-in reducing steering wheel, and asymmetric braking systems in the 1990s McLarens and supposedly this year's Red Bulls were examples of true ingenuity, I think.

Re:The Ingenious F1 Wing Trick That Helped Oscar Piastri Win... by Scramblejams on Friday September 27, 2024 @02:17AM (#41666866)
Get the wing to yield exactly how they want it to from aero loads, but somehow lay up the carbon so it doesn't yield unacceptably under FIA static load tests? I think that's probably ingenious.

Maybe a similar challenge in some respects to how structural engineers had to use very clever composite design to make the X-29A's forward-swept wing's leading edge curl down when the wing flexed up, lest an increase in angle of attack become self-reinforcing to the point of a stall or catastrophic wing failure.[0] These kinds of designs are frequently asymmetric and unbalanced (meaning different numbers of +/-45 plies) which can create internal stresses during curing, sometimes making them difficult to produce and extract from a mold without breaking the part or the mold and still getting the shape you want in the end.

[0] https://www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/sweeping-forward-developing...

Re:The Ingenious F1 Wing Trick That Helped Oscar Piastri Win... by cromulent on Monday September 30, 2024 @09:58AM (#41697158)
It's clever, but not original, so it's not ingenious :)
Re:The Ingenious F1 Wing Trick That Helped Oscar Piastri Win... by squigz on Friday September 27, 2024 @01:19AM (#41666529)
Bring back the fan car!
Re:The Ingenious F1 Wing Trick That Helped Oscar Piastri Win... by inasio on Friday September 27, 2024 @01:44AM (#41666638)
Bring back the six wheeled car!