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I have socks older than her :P

You took my favourite! I see them sometimes here in Japan. I want to buy a decent one.

I have an unrestored one of those, I can't get the picture to upload from my phone, so annoying! I just got it a couple months ago, it had some body work on the door that looks like a "4" so I decided to keep it, it looks kind of cool and its numbers the car haha.

It actually does make a big difference in downforce and for directing the air to the tray ect.. below the car. Remember the front of the car is used to also direct air to places that need it for cooling as well as adding downforce. If you just had the nose of the car to worry about it would be a totally different set,…

Yes there is a strict height rule for the nose due to impact safety standards with the FIA, the side of the cockpit as well conforms with that rule so its harder for a nose to kill someone. There are measurements for all parts of the car so depending on their aero design it could raise the nose quite a bit. A few…

English isn't my first language, sometimes I don't know what I mean haha. I've seen concept drawings of things like this, BMW made a sketch of something similar. F1 won't allow that sort of thing or I think we'd have it by now!

You always see stuff like this, the whole body mechanically shifts.

Serious active aero launches that car in a stable manner, it works is all I can see.

They did mention how certain parts of the track just took no time to cross and it seemed to surprise them. My guess from an engineering standpoint is the active aero keeps it stable in places a car without it can't keep it together. That much power (better ratio than a Veyron) with the aid of the aero is very good, if…

At McLaren

Dubai, I hate the place, its a city and a state. The world map islands are eroding, mark my words, when they hit a recession that place is going to look like a dilapidated theme park. That and:

Active aero is the holy grail here on earth in this air, the surface of the car causes changes at different speeds so to ability to change that is an immense addition. Downforce did significantly increase speed in F1 but to change the car by the millisecond is probably equally as large a step. Its not in F1 because…

And on that bombshell I leave you with the memory of Hamster reading this...

The last bit was very naughty about the spout and the spreading and spilling forth or some such! I personally can't wait to read Dazzling Diggers.

Only Gear!

Nobody sane says the top rally drivers are worse, many say the best rally drivers are easily among the best of all time. I worked in F1 for many years so I've had that conversation a few times!

It got fastest lap by a good bit, the car speaks for itself really. We've all seen how they are made and how good they are, the active aero was the most important bit.