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Tony Rudd写给莲花车队每一位工程师的警言 SURVIVAL RULES (YOURS AND THE DRIVERS) The keywords are elegant simplicity. Each part doing three jobs at least. The objective is to win the race. Remember, the car has to finish and a tired, blistered driver won’t help. Car must be designed so that a pre-race check can be carried out completely by one man in six hours. Rectification or readjustment is extra. Pre-race check sheet is supplied to the operator. With each new type of sheet, operators will add to, but may nor delete from this. Designer starts the sheet, build and development will add to it and engineering director signs it into law. (Anti)-roll bar, camber, wing, brake balance bar changes must be possible in five minutes and repeatable. These are no good if they cannot be identified and repeated. Avoid infinite variable screwed adjustment. Murphy is a racing mechanic and works for Team Lotus. If it can be assembled the wrong way around he will. Never design or cause to be made something that cannot be inspected. Again, never design something that cannot be seen to be safe or that needs special equipment to prove it. All spherical bearings need protective covers. You can’t change people, so make the car easy to adjust and maintain by easy access. A grease seal over a universal near a brake disk is better than none at all. It will fail before it gets renewed so provide a finger disk to direct the grease clear of the brake. Stress suspension for a 3g bump on a 2g corner. If the driver believes the car is strong enough it’s worth more than one second a lap. Avoid birdcage structures. All tubular structures to be 3-inch circumference. Adjust the gauge for load. Never use banjos on the pressure side of the fuel system. Banjo Never use ‘O’ rings to seal negative pressure. All material, including human skin, is notch sensitive – some more than others – so use appropriate radii. Remember, all engineering materials are rubber like. They deflect to some degree