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Just reading an artical about Formula 1's green intentions.
"F1 will need to use biofuels next year when a minimum of 5.75% of the fuel used in racing will need to come from renewable resources. Moreover, the FIA wants exhaust gasses and heat generated by the cars' engines to be captured and used for propulsion in 2011.
Err, didn't they used to do that before turbos were banned?
Reverend Big wrote: Just reading an artical about Formula 1's green intentions.
"F1 will need to use biofuels next year when a minimum of 5.75% of the fuel used in racing will need to come from renewable resources. Moreover, the FIA wants exhaust gasses and heat generated by the cars' engines to be captured and used for propulsion in 2011.
Err, didn't they used to do that before turbos were banned?
An excellent point well made.
They also demand flywheels! (they call them "kinetic energy recovery devices").
All looks very impressive, until you remember that the change in rules to finally, really, truly ban traction control (or "arcade mode" as they should be forced to call it), has taken YEARS to happen owing to teams whining and vetoing it. The chances of this all happening by next year are the same as super aguri winning the world title.
Want to save emissions AND make racing better?
Well, see all those huge drag inducing surfaces....fuckin ban them, a car without wings can do the same top speed as one with, with 1/3 the power. Actually some wings are OK, it's all the fannying about on the overbody and the front wing that is the problem...plank at the front, plank at the back, tyres made of flypaper and the size of dustbins, sorted, any questions?
(I appreciate I just descfribed a 1984 Brabham, but so what)
Yes I remember the interviews when they banned traction control but gave the cars a second(?) to change gears. Most teams managed to change gear in a tenth of the time allowed, but still used the rest of the second to, err, manage the power delivery so as to reduce component wear.
Traction control then?
The same artical I was reading today said that the limits on the amount of track testing the teams were allowed to do meant that the teams were now spending a lot more time and money on virtual testing with computers and wind tunnels and the like. Surely, these measures were introduced to assist teams that can't afford all the track testing time to keep up with the majors? Weeell that worked!
So this is not a thread about Indian F1's headgear.Sorry then i will leave it you in the KNOW!
HH Frentzen stuck his foot in it while drive the sauber with the red-car engine when he mentioned that TC had been available in the setup menus for 3 years.
They only unbanned TC cos nobody could figure out how the red-cars were doing it, therefor they couldn't stop em.
Oddly, they had manual TC in 98, which I approve of. BAsically rhere was a button on the dash, which, when held, switched off 6 cylinders, giving you about 300hp until the car was planted and ready to go. One might expect the transition of releasing the button would be violent, and oddly enough, there were a lot of red things pointing backwards on the exits of slow turns that year.
F1 needs to ban fucking everything, and a separate, rich loonies formula-big-spender set up where they can do wtf they want and spend wtf they want.
ROCKET MICK1 wrote: So this is not a thread about Indian F1's headgear.Sorry then i will leave it you in the KNOW!
Seikh drivers wear a special,very small, thin Nomex racing turban, under their skid lids, fact!
A girl who works here has a 2008 McLaren calender. I've just seen it on her desk - she's already on September, which has a soft-focus studio picture of Hamilton.
I asked her why she was on the wrong page, she said that the other month's were rubbish, just pictures of cars and stuff.
Reverend Big wrote: A girl who works here has a 2008 McLaren calender. I've just seen it on her desk - she's already on September, which has a soft-focus studio picture of Hamilton.
I asked her why she was on the wrong page, she said that the other month's were rubbish, just pictures of cars and stuff.
They DON'T call him DIDDY DAVID for nothing.Am i STILL not getting F1?
ROCKET MICK1 wrote: what about the gothic one who won for BRITAIN...NIGEL MANSON.:p His mum was LOVELY too!
The guy who had the 2 ugliest wives in F1 second Piquet?
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ROCKET MICK1 wrote: what about the gothic one who won for BRITAIN...NIGEL MANSON.:p His mum was LOVELY too!
The guy who had the 2 ugliest wives in F1 second Piquet?
You've not seen Georgie Hill then...yikes.
Senna and Irvine, those were the boys that could get a decent girlfriend.
As for the calendar, well, it's back to the days of Senna, when men got peace to watch the F1.........
"you get off your fucking arse and mow the lawn instead of sitting there watching cars, now switch it off and get out there". "look dear, Ayrton Senna, and oh look, he's waterskiing in only his trunks"
Problem solved.
