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Formula 1 was also technological race, that is now gone. Why should top teams invest into innovation anymore? F1 today is just street race with oddly shaped c

• mehwoot 13y ago
  If that's the case, explain to me how the Red Bull car is 6 seconds a lap faster around Spa than the Caterham car, when they have exactly the same Renault engine and the same pirelli tires. Did Caterham forget to turn their engine into fast mode? Or is there maybe some technology somewhere in that Red Bull car to justify their roughly $300 million budget.
• nitid_name 13y ago
  The odd shapes are one of the areas of innovation. Because the FIA limited the placement and size of aerodynamic fins (i.e. spoilers and front lips), the engineers started using other aerodynamic innovations to increase downforce. One of the most interesting things to come out of F1 cars, from an aerospace engineering perspective, is the use of eddies and other circular air motions underneath the vehicle to drop the pressure (and create a corresponding downforce). Just because the rules stop innovation on something like engine tech doesn't mean innovation stops; it just means it moves to optimizing other pieces of tech.