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[loosecannon]

There was lots of talk of driver adjustable front wings before the season started but now it's all diffuser, diffuser, KERS, diffuser. Why isn't anybody talking about the driver adjustable wings? Is it helping? What strategy do drivers use? What happens when they damage a wing? Is every driver using it? Why don't we get a little graphic on the TV screen like we do with braking, throttle and KERS?

[IceManpjn]

There was lots of talk of driver adjustable front wings before the season started but now it's all diffuser, diffuser, KERS, diffuser. Why isn't anybody talking about the driver adjustable wings? Is it helping? What strategy do drivers use? What happens when they damage a wing? Is every driver using it? Why don't we get a little graphic on the TV screen like we do with braking, throttle and KERS?

These are good questions. I've also not heard anything more about them for months, and not seen anything about them at all on-screen or mentioned in any commentary.

[Jabberwocky]

good question matey, I am not even sure if anyone is running them


Force India don't use it http://formula-1.updatesport.com/news/a ... /view.html
Mclaren Do http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1403 ... ront-wings
Ferrari Do http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsp ... 812490.stm

[Gaz]

i want to see them being testing on the grid like a plane before takeoff.

that would be cool.

[supeindesu]

Also Renault

[liquidmetal]

good question .... these seem to have completely disappeared .. or is that drivers have too much on their hands to use kers and the adjustable wings at the same time?

[darwin dali]

good question .... these seem to have completely disappeared .. or is that drivers have too much on their hands to use kers and the adjustable wings at the same time?

It's once per lap - I would think they can handle that with the millions they get paid...

[FerrariFan63]

It is very odd that nothing has been said.

Force India doesn't have one. http://formula-1.updatesport.com/news/a ... /view.html Surely that means that most other teams have them, or Force India not having them wouldn't be newsworthy.

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2009/04/04/m ... ifference/

[loosecannon]

Just once I want to see the cars on the grid and a camera zoom in on the front wings going through their range of motion, or how about in-car camera showing the driver changing the angle? Anyways, I think driver adjustable aero is really interesting but all talk of it has disappeared.

[cap-dude]

Red Bull don't either. So nor do STR

I was thinking the same thing lately. There's been no mention of them being used. Renault, Toyota and BMW use them I think. I don't think Brawn use them.

Certainly I'd like to hear a little more on the front wings.

Interesting to see Toyota's new front wing thing this weekend. Glock needed a new front wing, and the new one came on a jack and clipped onto the car in a matter of seconds. Pretty impressive stuff. Nose changes were supposed to longer this year. The pit stop was only about 10 seconds. Thats saving them around 5 or 7 seconds. Forget pit stop lights, that's genius.

[bud]

In one of the press conferences in Melbourne they were asking Fernando and Lewis if they were using them and guess what they said they werent. They dont really move a huge amount for them to make a large difference at most tracks. But i am sure they would have been used in China with the straights there. Not in the wet though!

oh and heres a good shot of the Brawn adjustable wing. the leverage arm has its cover off.

diapo_637.jpg

[darwin dali]

Interesting to see Toyota's new front wing thing this weekend. Glock needed a new front wing, and the new one came on a jack and clipped onto the car in a matter of seconds. Pretty impressive stuff. Nose changes were supposed to longer this year. The pit stop was only about 10 seconds. Thats saving them around 5 or 7 seconds. Forget pit stop lights, that's genius.

Yeah, I'm actually surprised this didn't get more posts on here. It was very cool how they did it (why nobody else has come up with something like that a long time ago beats me).
You can bet your smooth baby bum that within a couple of races every team down the pitlane will have a similar nose trolley

[texasmr2]

Yep that was cool and soon it will be copied by most teams.

[Denthúl]

Interesting to see Toyota's new front wing thing this weekend. Glock needed a new front wing, and the new one came on a jack and clipped onto the car in a matter of seconds. Pretty impressive stuff. Nose changes were supposed to longer this year. The pit stop was only about 10 seconds. Thats saving them around 5 or 7 seconds. Forget pit stop lights, that's genius.

Yeah, I'm actually surprised this didn't get more posts on here. It was very cool how they did it (why nobody else has come up with something like that a long time ago beats me).
You can bet your smooth baby bum that within a couple of races every team down the pitlane will have a similar nose trolley

I think it's the way the new front wings are this year - the gap in the middle means that there's a smaller piece for the trolley to grab on to. In years gone by, there would have been no gap here, so it would've been more difficult to implement such a thing. That's how I look at it, anyway.

[darwin dali]

Interesting to see Toyota's new front wing thing this weekend. Glock needed a new front wing, and the new one came on a jack and clipped onto the car in a matter of seconds. Pretty impressive stuff. Nose changes were supposed to longer this year. The pit stop was only about 10 seconds. Thats saving them around 5 or 7 seconds. Forget pit stop lights, that's genius.

Yeah, I'm actually surprised this didn't get more posts on here. It was very cool how they did it (why nobody else has come up with something like that a long time ago beats me).
You can bet your smooth baby bum that within a couple of races every team down the pitlane will have a similar nose trolley

I think it's the way the new front wings are this year - the gap in the middle means that there's a smaller piece for the trolley to grab on to. In years gone by, there would have been no gap here, so it would've been more difficult to implement such a thing. That's how I look at it, anyway.

Don't you think they could have designed their trolleys around that?