速いマシンは美しくない…のか?!

速いマシンは美しい…これは長い間レーシングカーの定説だった。

2012年シーズンのフォーミュラ・ワンは、この定説が崩れる可能性大。
この醜いノーズのオンパレードをご覧あれ。

f1_2012_1.jpg f1_2012_2.jpg f1_2012_3.jpg f1_2012_4.jpg 醜い〜。
カッコ悪い〜。

子供に聞いてもたぶん同じことを言うはず。
カッコ悪い〜。
プラモデルや、ミニチュアカーが売れませんぜ。

これは、レギュレーションでノーズの高さを制限されたことによるマシンデザイナーからの回答。

唯一、ノーマルなデザインを採用したのがマクラーレン。
このチームはあまり好きではないけど、"速いマシンは美しい" の定説を守る為、是非ともマクラーレンチームに2012年のコンストラクターズ・チャンピオンをとってもらいたい。

f1_2012_5.jpg FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
TECHNICAL REGURATIONS
Bodywork and dimensions

ARTICLE 3: BODYWORK AND DIMENSIONS


3.8 Bodywork in front of the rear wheels:
3.8.1
Other than the rear view mirrors (including their mountings), each with a maximum area of 12000mm? and 14000mm2 when viewed from directly above or directly from the side respectively, no bodywork situated more than 330mm behind the front wheel centre line and more than 330mm forward of the rear wheel centre line, which is more than 600mm above the reference plane, may be more than 300mm from the car centre line.
3.8.2 No bodywork between the rear wheel centre line and a line 800mm forward of the rear wheel centre line, which is more than 375mm from the car centre line, may be more than 500mm above the reference plane.
3.8.3 No bodywork between the rear wheel centre line and a line 400mm forward of the rear wheel centre line, which is more than 375mm from the centre line of the car, may be more than 300mm above the reference plane.
3.8.4 Any vertical cross section of bodywork normal to the car centre line situated in the volumes defined below must form one tangent continuous curve on its external surface. This tangent continuous curve may not contain any radius less than 75mm :
a) the volume between 50mm forward of the rear wheel centre line and 300mm rearward of the rear face of the cockpit entry template, which is more than 25mm from the car centre line and more than 100mm above the reference plane ;
b) the volume between 300mm rearward of the rear face of the cockpit entry template and the rear face of the cockpit entry template, which is more than 125mm from the car centre line and more than 100mm above the reference plane ;
c) the volume between the rear face of the cockpit entry template and 450mm forward of the rear face of the cockpit entry template, which is more than 350mm from the car centre line and more than 100mm above the reference plane.
d)the volume between the rear face of the cockpit entry template and 450mm forward of the rear face of the cockpit entry template, which is more than 125mm from the car centre line and more than 675mm above the reference plane.