Posted by ashleigh on
November 8, 2007
The Last sting in the tail?
It seems that the Renault team may be the team to get the sting in the tail of the 2007 season.
The Renault team have been called in front of the FIA, allegedly having breached the Article 151c ruling.
Yes that’s the same article that cost McLaren the constructors title, and 100million dollars in the Stepneygate schenanigens.
So what’s Renault been cheating with? Well it seems that Phil Mackereth moved between McLaren and Renault, and with him went 3 dvd’s of technical details of the McLaren 2007 car (and hence the Ferrari 2007).
It will be interesting to see if the punishment (if there is one) that the Renault teams get is similar or the same as the McLaren one. If not it would almost certainly mean the end of Max Moseley, and probably many others in the upper echelon of the FIA.
Posted by ashleigh on
July 21, 2006
Advanced dampers are history
The FIA have ruled that the Advanced Damping system that Renault and Ferrari (and probably a few others) is to be banned as it contravenes Article 3.15 of the technical regulations (it stipulates that all devices influencing aerodynamic performance of the car must be rigidly secured to the entirely sprung part of the car and must remain immobile in relation to the sprung part of the car)
The system worked by suspending a mass in the fluid of the damper. The effect of this is used in many other applications, from cranes to geophysics and gave the cars an advantage over rough terrain like kerbs where the tyre wall could not damp enough of the vibration.
With this technology gone, the Renault and Ferrari (and others) may find it a little more difficult to 'ride the kerbs' as they have in the past, and I would assume the FIA are hoping it will lower corner speeds as a result.
