Nissan DeltaWing Engineering + F1 goodies.

[RCA]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_INdbXMqsw[/youtube]

• Lap around Road Atlanta @ 0:00-6:06
  Engineering talk @ 6:37-13:35

F1 Goodies
Ride along with Red Bull F1 car using an interactive panoramic camera.

• http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/10/360-red-bull-f1/

[themadscientist]

OK, WTF is the strange obsession people seem to have with this thing? It's just a goofy car.

[Razi]

You answered your own question.
The engineering that went into this is pretty sweet.

[themadscientist]

You mean moving the front wheels close together so they look dumb? Yeah, it's been done before. It looked dumb then too. There have been much cooler goofy cars.

[Razi]

But that design is completely different, and was done for different reasons.

[themadscientist]

What are the reasons for the deltawing other than "hey, let's make a dumb looking car for no reason?" And more importantly, why no CVT?

[Razi]

You can watch the video for that answer.

[themadscientist]

No time. I'm watching dragonbaby!

[Razi]

Once you're done watching babies, skip to 7:00 to listen to the engineer that came up with it.

[themadscientist]

Dragon went out like a b****!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oHWvFrpocY[/youtube]

As far as the car goes, the engineer is a car guy, you can tell. He's smart, but brings it down to my level that I can understand it. It makes sense and seems to do what he says it can do. I still have little interest in the thing, but the fact that there is so much resistance to it from the governing body makes me advocate for it from a fairness perspective, but also because that fear suggests he's on to something. I can dislike it, and I still do, but it deserves a chance to prove itself.

[RCA]

WTF happend to my thread?

[themadscientist]

Dragons