Why an assymetrical nose?

[Slartifartfast]

Saw this Lotus on display in Duns today at the Jim Clark museum.
Why are the two halves of the proboscis different lengths?

[Eric Mc]

Because last year they thought they would get some bonus points for the silliest looking car.

[Rufus]

To comply with the crash test law that stipulates there must be a certain area that makes the initial contact in a collision; the longer section is the crash test satisfying part.

[Killer2005]

The longer one is technically the nose, the shorter a crash structure iirc

[ajprice]

http://scarbsf1.com/blog1/2014/01/25/analysis-lotu...

Tech description by ScarbsF1

[Mr_Thyroid]

Wrestling, roller skating and football injuries apparently...........

[Some Gump]

Just a consequence of the wording of the regs.
The crash tip had to be a single thing, dimensions x by y etc etc. you were also allowed vanity panels, which were fairly free. The shorter tusk was to satisfy the single tip rule.

[Galileo]

The rules stated that the nose had to be a certain length and distance from the floor.But the designers wanted the air to go as cleanly as possible under the car (which is why they used to have high noses) This way they satisfy the nose dimensions rules and by moving it to one side get the air under the car. The other side is there to support the front wing and is shorter because the rules state they can only have one 'nose'. Being slightly shorter gets around that criteria.

[Inertiatic]

Looks aside it was a good idea (I think it looks alright). Sadly the rest of the car had major issues so we will never know the efficacy of the nose concept

[AlexS]

There was a requirement for a given, single, cross section of the nose 50mm back from the tip. The 2nd nose started 51mm back so not to break the single x-section rule.

[Dan_1981]

I think it's something to do with the regulations regarding only one nose....

The other is just a crash structure.



Hopefully I got here first with this info.