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[BARLOS1973]

It won its first race, Monza 1987 with Piquet who went on to be 1987 World Champion.

The next generation had a hydraulic reservoir problem which couldn't be fixed in a timescale to satisfy sponsors and driver with the resources we had at the time so was converted back to passive. It was very frustrating because the sector times were fastest in the field until air got in the oil.

It was resurrected in the early 90s when far more money and people were available.
It was always obviously better but was banned for 1994.

It won the Championships in1987, 1992 and 1993.

By controlling platform height (a F1 car aerodynamics was hyper height and pitch sensitive in the flat bottom period from 1983 until Senna's death) the car could be positioned for maximum downforce in corners with pitch changes for driver's preference of balance, then dropped to stall the diffuser on the straight for less drag.

Initially the driver had controls to adjust his aero balance from the cockpit. Latterly we had a system which knew where the car was on the circuit (before GPS ) so during practice the various settings could be mapped into the controller. Then the driver just drove and the controller did everything.

There remained control in the cockpit for the driver to deal with things like tyre degradation.

I remember that race. Just to let you know, Piquet and you in the willaims back in days gave me a lot of joy. Pity about 86' though....

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