The F1 2014 season

They never seemed to go into great detail, but it did seem like they just kept cooking it.

Newey should be OK next year, there's a whole empty side pod for him to package stuff in.
 
Skeeter said:
They never seemed to go into great detail, but it did seem like they just kept cooking it.

Newey should be OK next year, there's a whole empty side pod for him to package stuff in.
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Surely it'll be Oil and coolant radiators in one sidepod, air cooler in the other? It's a big mess of stuff to fit in to these cars! Certainly not lots of free space around.
 
Random though, does anyone know if the requirement for the driver to be able to start the engine from within the car stayed in the rules (I know the electric only pitlanes was dropped)?

If so, there won't be any problems with sitting at the end of the pits waiting to go out in qualifying. Just drive to the end of the pitlane, and turn it off.
 
Skeeter said:
If so, there won't be any problems with sitting at the end of the pits waiting to go out in qualifying. Just drive to the end of the pitlane, and turn it off.
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The engines weren't limiting them anyway (they've sat there for upwards of 3 minutes before, and Hamilton must have been ticking over for longer than that at the Nurburgring in 2007), it was the tyre temperature.
 
JonnyT said:
Might this be Red Bull's achilles heel given how many KERS failures they've had over the years? (setting aside the conspiracy theories about 99% of them being on Mark's car...)
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I doubt it.
The breakage is also easy to understand without a ct.

Redbull shoe horned the kers in. With as little affect on aero dynamics as possible. Which meant less cooling and more failures. Then take into account how many laps Seb was in the lead, in nice clean cool air. Same can be said for most of the failures for mark, his fault for not getting the lead and staying in clean air, on the most tightly packed car on the grid.

This also cant happen in 2014, kers Is far to vital and will give far more lap time than the aero.
 
The position of the ERS components is also regulated, so Newey won't be able squeeze them in where they find space, the chassis will be built with them in mind.
 
Hateful that the Yas Marina track is last, IMO Brazil should always be last. It's a special circuit that's notorious for edge on seat ends to championships! Well it was before Vettel...
 
Nickyyy said:
Hateful that the Yas Marina track is last, IMO Brazil should always be last. It's a special circuit that's notorious for edge on seat ends to championships! Well it was before Vettel...
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Suzuka should be last!
Adelaide should be last!
Watkins Glen should be last!
Etc.

It's a shame it's not a good track which finishes the season (and you'd have thought they'd have learned from 2010), but times change and money talks.
 
V F said:
On the F1 channel with Ted, these new engines sound awful. Sounds like the lower classes.
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GP3 dropped the turbo engines for NA this year becauase the sound was so unpleasant.

FrankJH said:
There was talk about changing the noise of the new engines?
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Only from Bernie spouting random stuff. There has not been any official push from the FIA.

The V6's have a straight through exhaust only about 50cm long, there isn't really much else they can do.
 
If the engines sound anywhere near as cool as they did in the apparent LaFerrari mule (don't know if this one has been fully confirmed or denied yet), then I'm quite excited - all the chuffs whooshes and whines will certainly be a different experience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od3H6Jxisfk
If it is an F1 engine, it'll probably not be running very well or flat out, but I do like it either way.
 
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I initially dismissed that LaFerrari/V6 rumour, but having read this I am a bit more convinced. Testing an F1 engine in a LaFerrari has a lot more relevance to a WEC P1 car than it does to an F1 car.
 
Skeeter said:
I initially dismissed that LaFerrari/V6 rumour, but having read this I am a bit more convinced. Testing an F1 engine in a LaFerrari has a lot more relevance to a WEC P1 car than it does to an F1 car.
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Before hearing the car, I thought it would just be Ferrari testing their new turbo V6 that I know is coming out in the next few years - but road turbos do no sound anything like that!

Apparently they tested the previous 2.4 V8 in an Enzo mule car - so it's not unfeasible.

I would imagine Ferrari sticking the engine or similar in to another race series would help them out in testing the reliability, particularly testing new stuff for newer seasons, though I'm not sure what the rules are to say what you can use from the F1 car in other race series.
 
DaveyD said:
If the engines sound anywhere near as cool as they did in the apparent LaFerrari mule (don't know if this one has been fully confirmed or denied yet), then I'm quite excited - all the chuffs whooshes and whines will certainly be a different experience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od3H6Jxisfk
If it is an F1 engine, it'll probably not be running very well or flat out, but I do like it either way.
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Sounds like a V12 to me?
 
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