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I agree, and shall round off this evening of posting by quoting the thoughts of a friend of mine:

"Looks like this might suffer from the same old car movie fail (an endless amount of gears to shift into when needed), but otherwise should be interesting. And it is very nice to see this era of F1 getting some mainstream coverage!"

Bit late to the party, but I just saw this.

Rubbish it all you want, but this theory (split/dual wings) is actually a brilliant concept.

Dual control left and right on the sections of wings could bring theories like mid-corner DRS into play, have offset angles on wings, would act like an insane limited slip differential, it's already in practice (Pagani Hyuara), it's no space age idea. Now that winglets are banned, all the turbulent air currently, from the car infront now comes from the bluff surfaces, which is mainly the tyres. If you eliminate that by controlling the flow (with wings), there would be massive drops in turbulent flow mid corner. Instead of battles happening on straights, they would happen in corners.

Now I'm struggling to remember my theory, but if I can recall, turbulent air reacts very well to wings. I'd need to check a text book (for the nerds out there, correlate reynolds number vs. wing angles, and see which has a better lift or drag coefficient) to remind me of theory, but you would also get significantly greater downforce figures too. Meaning, insane corner speeds. See upwards of jet fighter g-forces mid corner if they used the turbulent flow off the wheels for downforce, rather than laminar flow. You wouldn't get any less drag either, get arguably similar drag values than what we have now (2009 > era wings). So no loss in top speed, but huge gains in corner speed.

Sorry to go all nerd, but I thought people might be interested by this.

Guys, a quick question. Why did the number of overtaking double from 2009 to 2010?
DRS only introduced in 2011, and KERS was in no use for 2010. So I dont get that. The datas are from cliptheapex.com, the overtaking database. From 2010 to 2011 its okay, it is because of the DRS, but how about 2009 to 2010? From 244 to 547. Thanks

Yep, V6 engines sound terrible

Yeah that's not the same type of V6. That's like saying NASCARs should sound like F1 cars because they're both V8s.

As I say, I'm not sure how the modern V6s will sound. If they're anywhere close to the old ones, I'll be happy. If they're not going to be, can someone explain to me why?

I've only really experienced the V8 era, but on TV the V10s sounded great. Trackside the V8s are still monumentally loud, particularly the Caterham.

I'm willing to wait rather than be critical before we've heard them. Bernie's decided he doesn't like them and obviously that sort of news spreads. The journalists all wrote positive articles about the new 'Power Units' and I'm inclined to trust them.