Then again, ...
Posted on 08/05/2009 7:57:45 PM PDT by Chode
This will be a general purpose thread for F1 news and pings that really don't require a thread of their own.
It will be a gerrymandered definition dreamed up entirely to support the statist goals of the New Green Religion (to which F1 has sold its soul).
4000hp? That’s the Eco Mode for those cars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlKOrg0zpKY"
He left out one of the key lessons from the 3.5 liter era. The most thermally-efficient cylinder displacement is 300-350 CCs.
Ferrari stuck with the V12 during the 3.5L era because it was only 8 CCs/cyl short of 300. But when FIA reduced displacement to 3000 CCs, their 250 CC jugs wouldn't have been competitive, so they switched to the V-10.
And Enzo rolled over in his grave.
The third season for the 3-liter format, everybody on the grid was running V-10s.
So the most competitive engine you could build also would need to be built around 350 CC cylinders.
yup, i still love the V10s
Be interesting to see these F1 cars with 300ci cross plane V8’s. Make some real beautiful music. Hell, they could make the front wheels come off the ground.
OH Yeah...
Andretti has hired Pat Symonds, less than 24 hours after he quit as F1’s chief technical officer. Coinkidink? I doubt it.
Last week, if you didn’t hear, 11 or 12 US congressmen sent a letter to F1’s owners demanding to know how their refusal to accepts Andretti’s entry bid didn’t constitute an anti-trust violation.
At this stage that line of questioning might not carry much weight but if F1 doesn’t show due deference to the high-hatted politicians, they might just close ranks and make life difficult for F1.
If the chrome gnome was still running the show, he’d flip congress the bird and tell them to pound sand, but with three races in the US this season, I don’t think the current owners have the stones to try it.
So I’m finally beginning to think Andretti might have a chance.
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Smart move politically to deal with F1! Hire a very savvy, well known, connected F1 veteran. Drip, drip…… F1 really needs to figure this one out, soon!
In spite of it’s Eurocentric management and attitudes, F1 is owned by Liberty Media, a U.S. Company, so I would think that Liberty does have an interest in not upsetting Congress.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7yCe1r5Heg
How Would Rally Drivers Tackle the Nürburgring Nordschleife?
Rally stages are no joke, and can vary from the mountains of Monaco’s Monte Carlo to the wild landscapes of Kenya and everywhere in between. But what about over 20km of Green Hell? The Nürburgring Nordschleife is a monstrous track, so Hyundai sent Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaeghe, as well as our own Tom Howard, to the Nürburgring to see what rallying over the famous track would be like, and to find out how important pacenotes are to a rally driver.
Sideways...... :)
I just received a major shock. Adrian Newey ain’t nowheres near as smart as I took him to be. I know that because (I just learned that) he hired Eddie Jordan as his manager.
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That’s not news, I gather it happened some time ago. The news is that the Mirror reported today that Jordan said Newey still hasn’t made up his mind what to do. Which by extensiuon also means he has NOT signed with the Maranello mafia.
LOL, right? but no, not once...
lol, i want to see him goto Audi...
Then again, ...
FIA has scrapped the idea of fenders on F1 cars.
They were calling them “spray shields,” and they were looking into a device that would help with driver visibility in the wet but could be added on the fly, like during a tire change to wets, but it was a quick-detach fender in all but name. They tested them last year at Silverstone and again this year at Fiorano. Apparently it didn’t go so good.
They’ve already abandoned the traditional concept of “open cockpit” with the “halo,” (which they justified primarily on the basis of a driver killing himself by ignoring yellow flags) so I guess the “open wheel” concept is also negotiable. They just didn’t get it right this time, but with their fetish to create a “Formula Nerf,” I doubt they’ll give up.
https://racingnews365.com/f1-abandons-controversial-idea-after-failed-test
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