New F1 Nose Regulations For 2015

"Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire" (arch-duke-maxyenko) 06/26/2014 at 16:25 • Filed to: f1

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F1 teams voted for them today:

From next year, the noses will need to taper more linearly from the low tip to the front of the chassis.

As well as the new dimensional rules, there are also changes to make the crash test more progressive to prevent teams making the very end of the frontal crash structure too flimsy.

While the nose tip cross section remains the same at 9,000mm2, it will be lowered even further and will have to sit between 135mm and 220mm above the car's floor.

Furthermore, the tip must be no wider than 140mm, so teams will now have a choice of a wide flat nose, a tall thin one or rounded shapes in between.

Then the nose must widen to a second cross section 150mm behind its tip, which must be no less than 20,000mm2. Again a maximum width is stated of 330mm.

Both these cross sections will have to be symmetrical about the car's centreline, which effectively outlaws the Lotus twin-tusk style nose.

The remaining length of the nose going back towards the chassis must have a tapering cross section, so that the nose cannot suddenly slim or use concave shapes to reduce its aerodynamic blockage.

Lastly the rules prevent super short noses as used by Mercedes this year. The nose tip will have to start about mid-way along the front wing.

For the crash tests there are now demands for average decelerations for the first 150mm of the crash structure.

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So here is my speculative render of the new noses

Manuél Ferrari > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 06/26/2014 at 16:26

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ok this was the first time i literally lol'd from a post in a while

NotUnlessRoundIsFunny > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 06/26/2014 at 16:29

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Is it wrong that I read part of the quote as:

Lastly the rules prevent super short noses as used by Mercedes this year. The nose tip will have to start about mid- wang along the front wing.

BeaterGT > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 06/26/2014 at 16:32

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Damn. I like the Lotus tusks.

Vi517, JDX Racing > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 06/26/2014 at 16:39

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No more Lotus tusks? I was hoping that it was actually the best nose of all the teams and everyone else would adopt it next year. :(

desertdog5051 > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 06/26/2014 at 19:32

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But we already have that, don't we?

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > desertdog5051 06/26/2014 at 19:46

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No, this new one is more flacid

verycommenting > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 12/14/2014 at 17:27

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is there any definition of how it needs to behave between cross section 1 and 2?

from cross section 2 to 3 there is a clear definition of how it needs to taper, but 1 and 2 seem to be separate, which leads me to something like this: