I just watched the Bahrain Form 1 GP on my TVIO.

The Honda, AKA Brawn, won again. The who's who of race
car builders were in the back of the back. Brawn is running the
same Mercedes engines as Mclaren but Mclaren with Hamilton is not doing nearly
as well. The down force is pretty much the same as they both have to run
the same stupid rear wing. They are also running the so called "super
diffuser" several other teams are also running. The Toyota's qualified first and
second with a couple of young fearless drivers. The guys driving
the Brawn are geezers by comparison :) Apparently the Honda engineers
did their home work last years when it comes to chassis dynamics.

They must have read and understood my 1968 AIAA paper I uploaded to
the ACRE web site last year :)

http://www.rotaryeng.net/AIAA-Paper.pdf

This paper was republished in December 2008 by Bernoulli Aerodynamics International.
http://www.racetechmag.com/bernoulli/index.asp
Not early soon enough to affect the Honda design.

Just to give you an idea how out to lunch some of the other F1 teams
are in this regard one team is asking for narrower front tires to improve
the balance. Shesss!

Quiz: Can anybody that has read my paper tell me why this is a bad idea? :)


Paul Lamar