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5th September 2010, 00:54 #21
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One idea which these days may or may nor be contrary to the rules, could overcome the dratted problems that the horrible idea of control tyres has allowed.
Especially for drivers such as Schumi who requires a car to be essentially oversteer at its maximum and therefore the rear considered undriveable by other drivers - most of them incompetent when compared to the Kerpen man.
I refer to the concept designed and used by Barnard on the McLarens of the 1980's at some point - use the front brakes to force more oversteer when the point is reached where the control tyres just flat line.Jense - Mclaren MP4-25 :DMonzaOne :D
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5th September 2010, 02:33 #22
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Originally Posted by Jag_Warriorracing-reference.info/showblog?id=1785
9 Simple Rules as Suggested by a Nerd
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5th September 2010, 04:58 #23
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650bhp ?
That's pretty less power than the f1 car had today . Oh well , at least they'll have turbo and ground effect but just don't move the side pod forward .
The only thing i look forward to...
The KERS + Turbo + Ground effect ." You need to put your life on the line to become a race car driver. " , ZEROX said . :vader:
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5th September 2010, 09:52 #24
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Well known Ferrari F-40 has 2.9 L (2936 cc) turbocharged V8 giving 478 PS (352 kW; 471 hp) under 110 kPa (16 psi) of boost at 7000 rpm. If we "shrink" the engine to 1,6 L we will have about 250 HP, if "accelerate" to about 19000 rpm we get about 650 HP. These calculations are very primitive, but they give some figures at least.
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5th September 2010, 12:01 #25
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Originally Posted by ioan
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6th September 2010, 10:26 #26
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Originally Posted by theugsquirrel
With a flow meter, you can guarentee that as long as nothing is between the injectors and meter, then that's the maximum they can use.
If we have a maximum fuel tank size, we will get more of this fuel saving mode instead of racing and it's more costly to change the flow rate in the future.
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6th September 2010, 12:25 #27
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Originally Posted by skc
I still think that isn't the answer however. And that's drastically slashing aerodynamic grip to almost zero!Please 'like' our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/motorsportforums
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6th September 2010, 12:34 #28
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Originally Posted by Mark
If you cut down aero grip and rely on Mechanical, you have slow corners and lap times.
If you compensate by introducing ground effect downforce then you improve corner speeds but make the cars unpredictable in a crash or any off track excursion into the kitty litter or grass.
I hate the idea of a spec series but standard front and rear wings which generate up to 50% of the current grip in addition to ground effect aero seems a good alternative.
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6th September 2010, 12:52 #29
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I still just say we should keep the cars how they are now, with these regs, just ban double diffusers (which they are anyway), blown diffusers,turning vanes, and winglets on the front and rear wings.
That will create the spectacle that they were going for in 2009.
I was watching the season review of 2009 the other day, and the front wings that were on the Renault in Australia were almost completely clean of aero bits. All the cars should be like that. Yes the teams should be allowed to shape the sidepods, engine cover, wings, and even have F-ducts, but it's all these other bits that I don't like.
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6th September 2010, 13:31 #30
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