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Originally Posted by javadog
Ferrari has always had a very inconsistent numbering scheme, or should I say schemes, for their cars. But lately, they’ve gone off the deep end. Sometimes I think they must solicit opinions from the great unwashed on the Internet for next year‘s name.
The least they could’ve done was give you a damn steering wheel. I’m sure they had several spares.
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I wish, from memory each wheel cost +$40K, even a full size replica costs $3k
My project remit for the redesign was make it future proof (it lasted for 2 seasons, maybe 3, can't remember), cheaper (was +$50k) and save weight (saved 300g or 10.5oz which was good chunk of weight)
As car steering wheels go it's an extremely complicated piece of equipment
I had to package 2x CPU's along with the numerous buttons and rotary switches. All required for the 330 different functions the driver could set
When I started on it I was very keen to know all the different settings but quickly gave up on that idea
I made up for the cost savings the following year by designing a $1500 wheel nut and the team chewed through a lot of them, just proving out the design was enough to fill up my bottom desk drawer
