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Our car is no copy, says US F1
Topic Started: Jan 23 2010, 07:14 PM (259 Views)
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So far so good. Credit were it's due, as they are certainly down into the details and very ambitious! Hope the pants will hold, come racing time.
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The brand-new US F1 team stresses that the design process of its first Formula 1 car will in no way feature a duplication technique; instead, the Charlotte-based team - which will also have an operational base in Spain for the European season - will be designing its challenger completely from scratch.

With US F1 being one of four new outfits on the grid this year, the Ken Anderson and Peter Windsor-formed team is keen to impress as soon as possible. 'F1 cars are small and we are fitting a lot of stuff into a very tight volume,' senior designer Scott Bennett wrote on the US F1 team website. 'We're doing a few things quite differently than they have been done in recent years.

I can't give specifics (yet) but we've looked at everything with a fresh perspective and come up with some different answers. We'll know whether they were the right or wrong answers soon enough, but our car certainly won't be a clone of anything else out there. And did you know that we're the only one of the four new teams designing our own gearbox...?'
Source: GPUpdate.net
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Scott Bennet's complete blog is here http://www.usf1formula1.com/2010/01/usf1-b...tt-bennett.html
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Interesting. However, what make us think the other new teams are copying/cloning other existing cars unless you have the blue print. I am sure all the team this year will have a double diffuser and that's perhaps some way of copying.
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I'm guessing that USF1 are just trying to keep the interest up, though I am interested in how the car will look if they have taken an unusual design solution. I miss seeing a grid of wildly varying cars.
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AndyW76,Jan 25 2010
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I'm guessing that USF1 are just trying to keep the interest up, though I am interested in how the car will look if they have taken an unusual design solution. I miss seeing a grid of wildly varying cars.

All I can think of now is Wacky Races. :D
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Lord Tau,Jan 25 2010
12:06 PM
AndyW76,Jan 25 2010
11:53 AM
I'm guessing that USF1 are just trying to keep the interest up, though I am interested in how the car will look if they have taken an unusual design solution. I miss seeing a grid of wildly varying cars.

All I can think of now is Wacky Races. :D

<roflmao>

That definitely would have been preferable to Max's vision of One-Make-F1 that he tried to impose.
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Well, to a certain extent, the relative lack of variation is down to the rules being tightened up to prevent all the myriad turning vanes, winglets, 'chickens' and so forth that sprouted up towards the end of the 00's that supposedly ruined overtaking. Unfortunately, the designers are so clever that most interpretation of the rules had to be circumvented in order to stop people taking too much advantage and being accused of cheating if they are successful. For example, the diffuser row this time last year....
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And the diffuser loophole was pointed out to the technical working group and FIA prior to the 2009 season, which the FIA choose to ignore.
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