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#1 Statesidefan

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Posted 11 August 1999 - 08:58

I'm fairly new at this. I have some BB questions for you guys. And a Tech question.

1) How do you get those quotes and the edited by.... to appear at the bottom of your post? I have an Andretti quote I want to use all of the time.
2) How do you get the sad/smiling faces to appear in your messages?

3)In the early 90's I used to see contrails coming off the wings of the cars. Look at Senna/Mansell at Barcelona. Why dont we see this anymore?

4)Was the ride height of the cars raised after Senna's accident, hence no flying sparks?
Thanks...Jeff

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#2 Statesidefan

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Posted 11 August 1999 - 08:59

Forget #1....I figured it out!!!!!

#3 Pit Babe

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Posted 11 August 1999 - 09:45

"Faces in the message" is explained in the FAQs - I believe it's inquiry 2.

As for the ride height: I saw something about this someplace.

PB goes hunting online...

Ah, here it is. The absence of sparks appears to be the result of a two-fold rule change. First, from the 1994 German GP forward, the minimum height was raised 10mm by making the installation of the underbody wooden plank mandatory. (The previous standard was 6cm, instituted in 1981.) Then, beginning in 1995, a 50mm stepped bottom was made mandatory in addition to the plank.


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#4 tak

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Posted 11 August 1999 - 10:08

After the FIA threatened to raise ride heights by adding a "plank", most teams switched from titanium bottoming plates to plastic bottoming plates. The cars still bottomed just as hard--they just didn't throw the shower of sparks!

#5 Indian Chief

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Posted 11 August 1999 - 10:15

Yet last year in Argentina, Schumacher's Ferrari was trowing up a huge amount of sparks.
Anyone know why that happened ?

#6 narhuit

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Posted 13 August 1999 - 16:46

3) I assume you are talking about the vortices we could see at each end of the rear wing, and that were trailing it?
They appear on particular atmospherical conditions only: the air must be nearly saturated with damp (BTW, vortices are sometimes visible behind and just above plane wings too). The vortex was always there, but it was visible only if the abrupt depression caused by the wing made the dampness condense into fog, which just "renders" the vortex.
We see them much less often now, because the wings are much more efficient: they produce less vortices (a vortex is useless for a wing; it brings no downforce, and represents pure drag!).

[edit: plane example + grammar]

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#7 Statesidefan

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Posted 15 August 1999 - 00:50

Thanks!

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