Prost Aim To Recreate Active Ride.

The Prost team is reportedly trying a radical method of creating active suspension, without resorting to banned technology.


The team, which showed encouraging pace with its normally suspended cars in testing last week, is thought to be using G-forces to drive a mechanically-operated system of ride height control. Test driver Stephane Sarrazin tried out the set-up in testing last week and, while not on the pace of the leading runners, clocked impressive times. The system is not thought likely to race in 1999, but may appear on the current AP02 chassis later in the season.


The late '80s and early '90s saw the greatest development of active suspension systems, designed to optimise the ride height for aerodynamic purposes. Nigel Mansell won the 1992 championship for Williams in an "active" car, shortly before the technology was outlawed by the FIA.