Redbull forced to change nose

[Dunit]

Redbull have upset Bernie in where their front mounted camera is mounted,In the vanity panel,And must now use outside mountings like every one else.

[revrange]

Should have been enforced in oz

[Tony2or4]

Dunit said:

Redbull have upset Bernie in where their front mounted camera is mounted,In the vanity panel,And must now use outside mountings like every one else.

Have you got a link to a report on this?

[Scuffers]

revrange said:

Should have been enforced in oz

this.

quite apart from taking the piss, TV is where the money comes from, so why should RB get away with not contributing to the TV coverage?

[Dunit]

Tony2or4 said:

Have you got a link to a report on this?

It was on the Grandprix.com site

[mybrainhurts]

Devastating news :yawn:

Have they made F1 interesting again yet?

[tristancliffe]

Scuffers said:

this.

quite apart from taking the piss, TV is where the money comes from, so why should RB get away with not contributing to the TV coverage?

But they do have a camera, and they do contribute. It's just hidden from the airflow a bit more.

[Justaredbadge]

revrange said:

Should have been enforced in oz

Quite.

[Alfa numeric]

Scuffers said:

revrange said:

Should have been enforced in oz

this.

quite apart from taking the piss, TV is where the money comes from, so why should RB get away with not contributing to the TV coverage?

They have a camera- it's in the nose rather than mounted on the side, so is more aerodynamically efficient- at least that's how I understand it. What's wrong with their solution?

[Mikey G]

Alfa numeric said:

They have a camera- it's in the nose rather than mounted on the side, so is more aerodynamically efficient- at least that's how I understand it. What's wrong with their solution?

The camera FOM want to use don't fit apparently, last I heard anyway...

[Scuffers]

Alfa numeric said:

Scuffers said:

revrange said:

Should have been enforced in oz

this.

quite apart from taking the piss, TV is where the money comes from, so why should RB get away with not contributing to the TV coverage?

They have a camera- it's in the nose rather than mounted on the side, so is more aerodynamically efficient- at least that's how I understand it. What's wrong with their solution?

what? apart from the pictures being totally unusable? as in that's what the camera is there for?

[Teppic]

Alfa numeric said:

They have a camera- it's in the nose rather than mounted on the side, so is more aerodynamically efficient- at least that's how I understand it. What's wrong with their solution?

The FIA want camera to have the option of being rear facing, so that you can see what the suspension is doing. If the camera is mounted inboard of the nose then obviously you can't have it rear facing.

[Alfa numeric]

Cheers all. It was a genuine question, sorry if it came across as antagonistic. I guess they want to roll out the movable version that they've been testing on Bottas's Williams?

[Sixpackpert]

http://www.f1times.co.uk/news/display/08625

It's all down to interpretation. Newey interpreted it one way, everyone else interpreted it the other way it seems.

[glazbagun]

I'd always thought that those camera pods would be used to eek out a little more downforce. Obviously not!

[Tc24]

I'm sure somebody over on F1 Technical mentioned that the Mercedes type camera mounts actually resulted in a performance gain over not having them at all. Assume RBR will go down this route.

[Paul_M3]

ash73 said:

What's the actual problem with it?

This is the footage it gives:

[GroundEffect]

ash73 said:

Hmmm that pic looks like it's been cropped to make it look worse than it is...?

See the Sky Sports F1 logo. That was actually all you could see.

[Doink]

Over the years the teams shaping the housings and putting them in strategic places as to affect airflow (for the better obviously) they did this with wing mirrors too, anyone remember the ferrari with outboard mirrors sat on the front of the side pods, totally ineffective to see out of but helped airflow, the FIA are or have outlawed this, as for the cameras aren't they meant to be mounted within FIA supplied housings and this season the nose cameras are meant to be mounted inside a virtual box, my understanding of the mercs horn shaped mounting suggests they needed to do this to get the cameras within this virtual box

Looking at the RBR and the rules i guess there is nothing saying that the camera housing could be hidden under the vanity panel and not outside of it assuming it still falls withing the virtual box?

[MG CHRIS]

wow f1 falling to new lows being forced to change a wing for a fking camera how utterly pathetic.