Chinese GP 2009 - Race 3/17

Skeeter said:
uh........ rite.

The 'smoke' was the onboard fire extinguisher going off as the KERS system caused some sort of short circuit. the cockpit is the only major hole in the chassis, hence it excaped there, not that thats where the batteries are.

The batteries are on the floor of the car near the engine bay, as low as possible. The issue is that while they are ballast, they arent moveable, and move the CoG of the car backwards. There isnt enough moveable balast for them to move to the front to level it out and keep the cars light enough, which is why Kubica isnt using it. There are no KERS batteries by the drivers feet.
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Ferrari said it wasn't fire extinguisher though... so it must have been some form of battery in there. Either that or all the electrical wires burnt out under there :D
 
when drivers were men and rain didnt mean instant RED flags.

the race was eventually stopped but atleast they had a go and the standing water on some corners was proper crazy by the end and no doubt those cars were atleast 10x harder to drive than todays
 
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arknor said:
when drivers were men and rain didnt mean instant RED flags.

the race was eventually stopped but atleast they had a go and the standing water on some corners was proper crazy by the end and no doubt those cars were atleast 10x harder to drive than todays
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ground effect, more downforce, less BHP, wider track cars. Yeah sure Harder to drive than todays.....
 
Overlag said:
ground effect, more downforce, less BHP, wider track cars. Yeah sure Harder to drive than todays.....
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ground effect was banned in 1982, and in 1991 they had up to 750 horsepower, so not exactly down much on today. fair enough they had a wider track, but i cant imagine they had as much downforce either.
 
Overlag said:
ground effect, more downforce, less BHP, wider track cars. Yeah sure Harder to drive than todays.....
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you tnink they are easy to drive? look at how much work they are

senna's mclaren has a 710BHP engine and i doubt they had as much downforce as todays cars as it was just after the turbo era before aero dynamics were king
 
Where on the bbc site is the live stream normally available? I've never seen it myself.

[edit] no worries, reloaded the f1 page with the live chat and now I see the video show up :)
 
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