Motorsport Off Topic Thread

That's not a bad idea, basically replace aero (ie limit it hugely) with ground effect and active suspension....
 
JRS said:
Last time I checked, F1 cars were still fitted with brakes. Drivers don't have to go flat-out. Some will choose to go a bit quicker than the rest, and will win races. Others will choose to go a bit slower, and win races on the days when those guys going quicker dump their cars into the kitty litter.

And yeah - bring back ground effect. Combine it with active ride to keep the cars low to the track and stuck down. You'll wipe out the problems with following another car at a stroke!
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Give the driver a choice and he will go flat out! They don't think like normal people.

Ground effect? No. It caused some massive accidents in 1982. Break the seal and the cars take off. It was a factor in the death of Gilles Villeneuve, and Arnoux had a massive accident at one race where he landed on top of the barrier. Flat bottoms were mandated for 1983 after that.
 
Hang on? Weren't people only recently all riding the "reduce aero grip" train, saying we should go back to mechanical grip and letting drivers drive? Why now the support for making the cars handle like they're on rails?
 
Skeeter said:
Hang on? Weren't people only recently all riding the "reduce aero grip" train, saying we should go back to mechanical grip and letting drivers drive? Why now the support for making the cars handle like they're on rails?
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Different people. Some still want no rules, despite the cash and safety issues. Let alone the lack of racing that would happen.

Following distance hasn't been an issue for a few years and wouldn't be even without DRS. Following distance is already under 0.3seconds. As soon as double diffuser was banned it tumbled, even in the double diffuser year it was much less than the previous years.

Just like FIA with DRS, trying to solve a problem that no longer exists.

Don't get me wrong. I would love there to be a track that doesn't change. And have the attitude like land speed record. No rules, what's the fastest we can do. Although this would still have to accept deaths would be common. It wouldn't make a race series for multiple reasons. Could even have several categories manned, unmanned, petrol, diesel, electric, hybrid etc.
 
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Team principle conference is worth a listen, both Mercedes and Renault there and talk about the engines a fair bit. Interesting stuff about the power curve of the engine and what revs they want for peak efficiency. Basically 15k is inefficient as is anything below 10500rpm, so I'm assuming around 12k is optimum as that's what we've seen.
 
16. The Appellant then asked its driver to apply the correction and to turn the engine’s settings down. Since, according the Appellant, this caused a loss of power of 0.4 seconds per lap, an internal discussion took place within the Appellant’s team, and after just seven laps, most of them having taken place while the safety car was on the track, the Appellant instructed its driver to turn the FFR back up. The FFM SENSOR No. 73 then showed an FFR above 100 kg/h until the end of the race.
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Oh dear..
 
J1nxy said:
I really must remember to ask my uncle if he was involved in the whole Red Bull engine thing.
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Does he work for Red Bull then? Or perhaps makes the sensors?

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wonder if the sky crew will try and grill horner this weekend, could make some amusing TV watching him squirm
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I think Sky, BBC and other international broadcasters will descend on Horner this weekend with this news. :D
 
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