Motorsport Off Topic Thread

[Skeeter]

That commentator is great, what's his name?

And what was going on with that double asymmetric Ferrari rear wing? Flexi flexi...

 

[Flibster]

That commentator is great, what's his name?

Clive James

 

[MarcLister]

And what was going on with that double asymmetric Ferrari rear wing? Flexi flexi...

Villeneuve was disqualified after the race because of the rear wing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_United_States_Grand_Prix_West

 

[Kenai]

And what was going on with that double asymmetric Ferrari rear wing? Flexi flexi...

Googling suggests it was to get round the maximum rear wing width regulation, by having two staggered rear wings

 

[Indy500]

Nick Heidfeld fastest in the ALMS first practice at Long Beach:

http://scoring.alms.com/

So that's where he went

 

[Skeeter]

Such a shame P1 and P2 in ALMS are now completely worthless.

 

[Indy500]

Such a shame P1 and P2 in ALMS are now completely worthless.

Low viewing figures (relatively speaking) and two teams could afford to field P1 cars. Not a recipe for success. I'm not surprised the ALMS board asked for a merger, with the huge decline in entries between 2011 and 2012.

 

[Skeeter]

The big shame for me is the loss of the top tier of endurance racing from Sebring. It will be like when the Monte Carlo rally was run as an IRC event, it just wasn't the same.

 

[Indy500]

The big shame for me is the loss of the top tier of endurance racing from Sebring. It will be like when the Monte Carlo rally was run as an IRC event, it just wasn't the same.

Le Mans is the only endurance event I know of that attracts any significant interest. Without that, teams won't get the sponsorship that allows them to run\develop P1s. The general public seem to prefer F1\stock cars\touring cars.

 

[Skeeter]

Sebring used to be like a test for Le Mans. All the big teams would go and shake down their cars and scope out the competition.

America has some epic endurance races (Petit Le Mans, for example) and in the hey days of ALMS they were very popular. Much more popular than the rather uninspiring WEC races which seem to just blur into obscurity.

Hopefully the return of Porsche will make P1 a 3 team, 9 car fight to ignite the WEC series.

 

[smr]

New Russian layout... looks like a typical Hilke track.

Can't read the writing but that big upside down "U" section looks a bit awesome

Also looks like it's got a few long straights and some slow speed / quite technical corners.

 

[Skeeter]

Meh, seems very point and squirt. No high speed direction changes.

Really long run into turn 1 though.

 

[Duke]

U bit is Turkey turn 8 copy, hopefully just as good too.

 

[GravyMonster]

Yay! Another street circuit.

 

[~Mike~]

Doesn't look great.

 

[smr]

Most apexes expected to be around 120k so not as slow as it looks. One super-long corner - entry speed 130, exit 300kph!

 

[Skeeter]

Details of the 208 T16 have been released

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/27595.htm

0-62 in 1.8 seconds, yeouch!

 

[~Mike~]

Details of the 208 T16 have been released

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/27595.htm

0-62 in 1.8 seconds, yeouch!

The rear wing looks huge.

 

[wallofsound]

Schumacher to drive Nordschleife in modern F1 car
http://www.espn.co.uk/mercedes/motorsport/story/106678.html

That will be amazing to see, and the lap time will be very intresting

 

[El_Watcher]

Schumacher to drive Nordschleife in modern F1 car
http://www.espn.co.uk/mercedes/motorsport/story/106678.html

That will be amazing to see, and the lap time will be very interesting

I can't see him doing that at anywhere near racing speeds.

How do you set up a modern F1 car to go around the carousel? The banked bit is only as wide as the car, so if he misjudges the corners, the plank will beach to the car, and he would end up flipping into the undergrowth. If you increase the ride height for this, the handling will be horrible in the sweeping corners.