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F1: Red Bull preview the Italian GP

 
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:23 am    Post subject: F1: Red Bull preview the Italian GP Reply with quote

Monday 3rd September 2007

Red Bull Racings Italian Grand Prix PrixView - a beginners guide to aerodynamics!


The F1 cars go very quickly at Monza. Apparently, this is because of something called aerodynamics. Here is a handy guide to a mysterious subject...


Aero package - The wrapping on a chocolate bar called "Aero." If your car looks like a bar of chocolate, it probably won't go very quickly


Rear wing - When very old F1 drivers go to heaven they wear these on their back to get around quicker than normal people


Gurney Flap - Named after American F1 driver Dan Gurney who competed in 86 Grands Prix, winning 4 of them. The first man to win a GP driving a car he built himself (the Eagle-Climax.) He got upset about tools dropping on his head when working on the gearbox of his car, so put a small flap on the rear wing to stop the tools rolling off the edge of the wing


Wind Tunnel model - A fashion term for girls who like to be photographed with their hair blowing backwards


Fifty Percent Wind Tunnel Model - As above but with a very bad contract that means the modelling agency takes half her money


Turning Vain (sometimes spelt Vane) - What happens to a wind tunnel model if you say too many nice things about her


Aerodynamicist - A difficult word to say


Front End Plate - The plate most likely to fall off the edge of the table


Drag - The way time passes slowly for the crowd watching a long procession of cars supposedly racing


Drag coefficient Cd - Very boring music that drivers listen to when going down the main straight at Monza


Down Force - Police Force who work on the South Downs near the coast of England


High Down Force - The same Police Force after they have burnt illegal marijuana plants


Low Down Force - How the Down Force feels the day after inhaling the marijuana smoke


Winglets - Baby wings


Lift - What lazy aerodynamicists use to go to their office rather than walking up stairs


Deflector - Word to describe an aerodynamicist when he no longer wants to work for a team and moves to another one.


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