Honda "Elephant Ears"

Greenback · 3 May 2007, 11:09 (Ref:1905716)

here come the elephant

Alan Raine · 3 May 2007, 11:34 (Ref:1905728)

Dumbo?

Hugh Jarce · 3 May 2007, 11:43 (Ref:1905735)

I thought that was Nick Fry - so finally his influence is being seen.

olly83 · 3 May 2007, 13:18 (Ref:1905777)

Oh dear! that looks ridiculous. hopefully they'll ban these silly wings on aesthetic grounds like they did in 98 or those sidepod wings

Sodemo · 3 May 2007, 13:40 (Ref:1905795)

And people said the McLaren experimental front wing was ugly...

Marbot · 3 May 2007, 14:56 (Ref:1905835)

Geoff Willis must be ****ing himself with laughter.

Can't wait for the "B" car!

Personally,I'd be glad to see an end to anything that you could label "aero device".

Fogelhund · 3 May 2007, 14:57 (Ref:1905836)

Ugghhhllyyy

**Adam43** · 3 May 2007, 15:27 (Ref:1905856)

Yes, it is ugly. etc...

But does it work?

It seems to be concerned with the flow of the air and channelling that, rather than being downforce generating in itself. It looks similar to the BMW vertical boards from the middle of last year, but in what is now a legal area of the car. It is possible that this adds downforce at the rear of the car.

The BMW vertical boards:

http://paddocktalk.com/news/html/mod...rder=0&thold=0

Red Bulldog · 3 May 2007, 15:48 (Ref:1905874)

According to Autosport, the team have dropped it already as it did not provide any benefit

ralf fan · 3 May 2007, 15:50 (Ref:1905878)

How ugly are they actually trying to make this car? Are they trying to lower their own 'standards' by out doing their very own 'half and half' livery.

**Adam43** · 3 May 2007, 15:51 (Ref:1905879)

Honda drop something because they don't think it works. Should we expect all other teams to sprout these devices at the next race?

Oh well, it was a nice idea.

Marbot · 3 May 2007, 16:38 (Ref:1905909)

I can't find a link that says that they aren't going to use it.Someone should stop them anyway,whether it works or not.

jhansen · 3 May 2007, 16:42 (Ref:1905913)

I think there is a link in the other Honda thread saying they will not race with it. I don't see why it would banned though. Unlike the BMW winglets, these don't appear to be in the line of sight for the driver. Or at least they appear much lower. And they certainly don't look like wings.

Edit: Ok, I lied, just checked the other thread and found no link.

Knowlesy · 3 May 2007, 16:59 (Ref:1905926)

Well that was vile!

Seems to be a craze for these airflow conditioners lately!

**Adam43** · 3 May 2007, 18:33 (Ref:1905987)

Quote:

Originally Posted by martyn bott

I can't find a link that says that they aren't going to use it.Someone should stop them anyway,whether it works or not.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/58486

Quote:

Originally Posted by autosport

Seventh quickest Christian Klien caused a few raised eyebrows in the morning when he tried out extra nose wings, nicknamed 'Dumbo Wings', on his Honda Racing RA107.

The extra devices did not prove a success, however, with team sources suggesting that the idea was scrapped when it became clear very quickly it did not provide any benefit to the problems the team are suffering.

Ryan_Briscoe1 · 3 May 2007, 18:48 (Ref:1905996)

This will solve all of Honda's problems

Marbot · 3 May 2007, 19:00 (Ref:1906007)

Oh dear,how sad,never mind.

Leighton Irwin · 3 May 2007, 19:44 (Ref:1906038)

Now how much time and money was spent on dem there things that don't work. Can we say the wind tunnel still doesn't work.

**Adam43** · 3 May 2007, 19:53 (Ref:1906044)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leighton Irwin

Now how much time and money was spent on dem there things that don't work.

That is (partly) how research goes.

Quote:

Can we say the wind tunnel still doesn't work.

Maybe, but they may have already known that it was unlikely to be a great development, but thought they may learn something (?).

Knowlesy · 3 May 2007, 19:55 (Ref:1906045)

Experimentation is the name of the game when looking for those extra tenths and hundredths.

The "solutions" seem to be getting rather wilder lately, which creates interest, if sometimes for the wrong reasons!

olly83 · 3 May 2007, 20:09 (Ref:1906060)

I can always lend them some leftover bits from my airfix kits I had as a kid!

Schummy · 3 May 2007, 20:20 (Ref:1906067)

For a brief moment I thought they were sponsored by Disney (or Pavarotti)

Pitstop · 3 May 2007, 20:58 (Ref:1906089)

I certainly would not care to be behind one of those 'ears' if it came off and was heading in my direction!

Could work though!

Rockmunky · 3 May 2007, 21:05 (Ref:1906095)

Oh for crying out loud.....

Why are there more stupid flapping bits and bobs.... It's rediculous, the cars look like they have tumours growing from them, now the car behind has no chance at all of getting close....

Utterly stupid.

*slams door like a girl*

kdr · 3 May 2007, 21:17 (Ref:1906111)

scrapped before they were banned methinks..

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