Talk:Brabham BT46

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  • Do inline references throughout. 4u1e 06:15, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Diagram of how the fan car worked would be good.
  • Table of results
  • Infobox or similar giving chassis information 4u1e 11:23, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Merge

Think I carried out the merge correctly - although sadly the process doesn't seem to carry any of the previous history across. Just to say anyway that although I missed the fact that there was already a 'Brabham fancar' article when I started on the BT46B article, I have actually used pretty much everything that was in that article before merging the two. Thanks to all those who had contributed to it. 4u1e 15:33, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Uncertain elements

Two elements I'm not quite sure about:

  • The sequence of banning, withdrawal etc. I think it goes: 1. Ecclestone withdraws the car. 2. FIA investigate legality of its win. 3. FIA allow Brabham to keep win, but ban concept in future.
  • When and where the ban on 'moveable aerodynamic devices' came into effect. I thought it referred to the ban on the more fiendish devices introduced in F1 around 1969, which wouldn't have had the fan effect in mind - but there may have been a more general ban put in place after the Chaparral 2J came out. 4u1e 09:26, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BT46

Noting that the material on the base BT46 is getting quite long. It may be better to split off the BT46 and the BT46C into articles of their own to prevent this one getting too long. Alternatively I could work it up into a longer single article on BT46 and variants (which would require renaming). 4u1e

OK, so proposed structure would be:
Lead
BT46
Concept
Racing History
BT46B
Concept
Racing History
Aftermath (or something less dramatic, but nothing comes to mind at present)
BT46C
Concept
Racing History
4u1e 28 June 2006

I ended up renaming the article to BT46 and rearranging the old material with a few new bits to fit the structure above. I've fixed all the pages linking here as well - some of them were already redirecting from 'Fancar' 4u1e

[edit] See Alsos

Nothing to get too excited about - I picked the original set of cars (Penske-Indy500 (pushrod engine), Lotus 88 (twin chassis), Mazda 787B (rotary engine) and Chapparal 2J (fan generated downforce)) as examples of cars that had used unusual technology successfully and then been banned.

The Tyrrell P34 meets the first criterion - using unusual technology successfully, but not the second one because it wasn't banned (well not at the time anyway - six-wheelers were banned in the early 1980s I think, after March and Williams had both investigated the idea of four rear wheels). The idea was abandoned because Goodyear couldn't/wouldn't support it any more.

I should perhaps have made that clearer on the page itself. I'm inclined to remove the P34 from this section - but am I being too picky about this? 4u1e

I've removed most of these now. I'll try and work the Lotus 88 and Penske-Mercedes back into the text at some point. 4u1e 11:24, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GA passed

It just need one minor adjustment, the first image doesn't give its fair use rationales. Every thing else is good. Maybe working on the criticisms, reception of the monocoques and those kind of things would make the article better. Lincher 03:01, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alfa Romeo links

Note that "Alfa Romeo" is deliberately linked to the redirect Alfa Romeo (Formula One) rather than to Alfa Romeo in motorsport#Formula One. The idea is that Alfa Romeo (Formula One) is a single place to which to link all F1-related instances of "Alfa Romeo", so that if the place where Alfa Romeo's F1 involvement is described ever changes, we just need to update a single redirect, rather than updating all the individual links (of which there are many). -- DH85868993 01:34, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

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