Akwel wrote:
F1Peter wrote:
StefMeister wrote:
Whatever caused the cars to be more prone to go airborn was something that came in with the 2003-2011 cars.
The cars they ran prior to that didn't go airborn that often & from memory never because of spins, Running over Debris or after contact from the wall (Like what we saw with Simona at indy this year).
Reading Codename's theory above about rake & looking back at images from Texas, The old style cars do seem to run less rake than the current spec car. The Pre-03 car seems quite flat to the ground, Current car is very high at the front due to a higher nose/front wing & also higher at the rear.
The cars they ran prior to that didn't go airborn that often & from memory never because of spins, Running over Debris or after contact from the wall (Like what we saw with Simona at indy this year).
Reading Codename's theory above about rake & looking back at images from Texas, The old style cars do seem to run less rake than the current spec car. The Pre-03 car seems quite flat to the ground, Current car is very high at the front due to a higher nose/front wing & also higher at the rear.
I'm pretty sure they did flip before 03 too. Maybe not as much but they did.
At 0:24 in this video, a car, I'm not sure who or when (I think it was per-2003), flipped just by spinning.
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Not sure, but the crash at :24 is pre-1990..
Yes, 1987
