Hole in BAR nosecone

Muzza · 26 Sep 2003, 04:30 (Ref:730405)

Folks,

I was at the US GP "pit crock" (as Tim Northcutt correctly renamed the secretive pit walkabout) and I noticed that that black dot on the tip of the BAR nosecone is actually an opening - but for what?

It cannot be for cooling electronics, as there is nothing located nearby there... Any idea?

Muzza

Jukebox · 26 Sep 2003, 04:47 (Ref:730408)

These type of questions have been asked many times....from the racing technology board....NACA ducts for damper & driver cooling especially for the feet.

DNQ · 26 Sep 2003, 05:20 (Ref:730416)

Nearly all the cars have a small opening on the nosecone.

Mark Webber · 26 Sep 2003, 05:59 (Ref:730436)

Its call a donkey d1ck and most cars (F1) have them

DriverT · 26 Sep 2003, 12:00 (Ref:730689)

Nice name

**Bononi** · 26 Sep 2003, 12:16 (Ref:730709)

Muzza, BAR cars, were the only ones that have it ?

Mark Webber · 26 Sep 2003, 13:00 (Ref:730751)

no Jag's have it to

Burton · 26 Sep 2003, 13:09 (Ref:730765)

It's not called Donkey Dick, Donkey Dick is the convaluted hose that is used to direct the air to the desired area. For example a clutch cooling duct will have a length of donkey dick on the back to take the cooler air to the clutch. It is so called because of its apparent resemblence to the reproductive organ of a donkey!

Mark Webber · 26 Sep 2003, 13:12 (Ref:730770)

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Burton · 26 Sep 2003, 13:15 (Ref:730776)

??????

Mark Webber · 26 Sep 2003, 13:20 (Ref:730782)

I've try to attach a photo of the R4's "donkey dick " but it didn't work

**Bononi** · 26 Sep 2003, 13:32 (Ref:730791)

Mark, you must use the "Attachment" button, since it's a picture that you have in your hard drive and not from a site in the web.

Mark Webber · 26 Sep 2003, 13:42 (Ref:730797)

I tried that as well but the picture is to big

**Bononi** · 26 Sep 2003, 13:49 (Ref:730802)

Uhn... you have to reduce it to max 400x400.

twig · 26 Sep 2003, 13:56 (Ref:730805)

From memory, i can remember at least McLaren, Ferrari, BAR, Jordan, and Jaguar using the holes.

Mark Webber · 26 Sep 2003, 13:56 (Ref:730806)

I think so but i'm not sure . How do I do it ?

Mark Webber · 26 Sep 2003, 13:59 (Ref:730807)

Yes twig I've seen it on McLaren, Ferrari, BAR, and Jaguar not sure about Jordan & at the AGP last year Mark did a thing on TV about it from the Jag pits

twig · 26 Sep 2003, 14:11 (Ref:730819)

Well, add Minardi to the list......sorry for the small and dark pictures, you will need to squint for these

**Adam43** · 26 Sep 2003, 14:12 (Ref:730820)

Cheers twig.

Does anyone remember when these were introduced. I seem to remember it being McLaren at Malaysia a couple of years ago. Am I right?

Mark Webber · 26 Sep 2003, 14:14 (Ref:730822)

not sure . Thanx twig

**Bononi** · 26 Sep 2003, 14:19 (Ref:730825)

Quote:

Originally posted by Mark Webber
I think so but i'm not sure . How do I do it ?

Any image editor would do it. Photoshop is easy to use.

Mark Webber · 26 Sep 2003, 14:26 (Ref:730833)

I'm running Photolab and I reduced it to 250x250 and it was still to big?

DNQ · 26 Sep 2003, 14:58 (Ref:730866)

I think it was about 1999 onwards that we saw them introduced.

steve nielsen · 26 Sep 2003, 15:44 (Ref:730924)

try this one for size

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**Adam43** · 26 Sep 2003, 15:56 (Ref:730928)

Quote:

Originally posted by Mark Webber
I'm running Photolab and I reduced it to 250x250 and it was still to big?

well that is probably refering to the actual file size in bytes. Try saving as a jpg and if that doesn't work turn up the compression on the file (I don't know photolab, but it could be an option when saving).

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