Re: F1 Windshield Wipers

[ti@amb.org (Ti Kan)]

Kneale Brownson wrotes:
> 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.

Ti Kan wrote:
> 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.

Levis-Fithian, Jeff E writes:
> 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...

Sorry I just wasn't thinking when I said F1.  I know that F1 and Indy cars
are open cockpit, no windshield, etc...  My statement about a single wiper
being non-optimal on a normal street car like our Audis still stands though.

Oh wait, let me modify the "F1" in that statement with "McLaren F1".
Now that works! :-)

-Ti
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