lunes, 17 de octubre de 2011

Any ideas that would improve Ferrari F1 cars?

I love Ferrari, but I can't afford one. I would like to see them winning Formula1 races again.
Press says that the new car for the next F1 season will be very innovative.
I hope it is true and they can beat Red Bull.
I have some ideas that I think that would be useful for a more efficient F1 car. I am supposed that Ferrari F1 engineers have thought about it in the past, they are the best ones.
But writing a blog is very easy. I can publish my ideas and if anybody has got more ideas they are welcome to write here.
Let's design the best F1 car of the future!

New aerodynamic suspension for F1 car


The front suspension of a F1 car has got a lot of arms: The upper and lower A-arms, the tie rod for steering and the push other pull rod to link the wheels to the shock absorbers.
I have the idea of a double A-arm suspension but with fewer arms.
I show now an image:

The push rod bar is no longer needed. The upper A-arm (as seen in the image) or maybe the lower A-arm or both, can be used to link the wheels to the shock absorbers. The A-arm should be very stiff. It only needs to be lenghtened in the inner side of the car. That A-arm would have got the joint to the chassis in the middle, one end linked to the wheel and the other one to the shock absorber.
Furthermore, the tie rod would run inside the upper A-arm.

The only arms that would be seen are the upper and lower A-arms. Aerodynamics of the car would be improved because there would be 2 less bars in the suspension.