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Originally Posted by Articus
Illegal in F1.
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Inerters are completely legal in F1 and they are still being used.
Professor Malcolm Smith licensed his patents to Penske Racing Shocks (see
here) and Penske sells inerters to almost all F1 teams. At the moment Penske is trying the commercialize inerters for other applications (e.g., Indycar). There is a good
article about this in the November 2011 issue of Racecar Engineering.
All this was already been discussed in
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