F1 Windshield Wipers

["Levis-Fithian, Jeff E" <LevisJE@LOUISVILLE.STORTEK.COM>]

Soooooo...which year was it exactly when F1 cars had a _windshield_??

Sorry, just had to throw that out there after two posts referring to
windshield wipers on F1 cars...

Jeff 
95 A6Q (2 wipers)


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Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 18:04:36 -0800 (PST)
From: ti@amb.org (Ti Kan)
Subject: Re: Anyone made a 1 Arm Wiper for 80/90?

Kneale Brownson writes:
> Didn't Porsche, Jaguar and at least one other make I can't remember at the
> moment already do this on passenger cars?  A lot of Formula One cars used
> to have single-arm wipers.  A third alternative would be a center-mounted
> wiper off somebody's rear window system.  

On race cars where the driver sits in the middle of the car (like F1),
a single wiper in the middle makes good sense.  For street cars where
the driver sits off-center, not quite so.  For maximum swept area on a
street car's windshield, with preference toward the driver, there is
nothing better than your stock dual wiper system.  It works, and it
doesn't have the complexity of the Mercedes single arm system (which
makes it expensive to make and more so to repair).

- -Ti
96 A4 2.8 quattro
84 5000S 2.1 turbo