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The Formula 1 2014 Season |OT| Who Will Win? Nobody Nose
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I think there'll be a lot of pit stops involved.
http://youtu.be/ZjaOVaFn2Gk
Hamilton interview talking about the new cars. about 4 mins in he's talking about wheelspin in gears 2-5, taking corners in 3rd or 4th compared to 2nd last year, short shifting to 5th and getting a tank slapper 100 yard down the road. Oh, and driving in the wet. Car only wants to spin
Also talks about different cars having different gear ratios even with the same engines. EG in Bahrain at one point on the track Merc were in 6th or 7th, Williams in 8th and FI in 5th.
I'm SOOO excited about this year.
Hamilton interview talking about the new cars. about 4 mins in he's talking about wheelspin in gears 2-5, taking corners in 3rd or 4th compared to 2nd last year, short shifting to 5th and getting a tank slapper 100 yard down the road. Oh, and driving in the wet. Car only wants to spin
Also talks about different cars having different gear ratios even with the same engines. EG in Bahrain at one point on the track Merc were in 6th or 7th, Williams in 8th and FI in 5th.
I'm SOOO excited about this year.
Brundle mentioned something I didn't realize before. With the tighter integration of the ERS the car is now dependant on a working ERS unit to run at all.
Last season when KERS was faulty they could just deactivate it. But now the car has to stop or there could be damage to the unit or the rearbrakes would overheat.
Webber would be fucked...
Last season when KERS was faulty they could just deactivate it. But now the car has to stop or there could be damage to the unit or the rearbrakes would overheat.
Webber would be fucked...
That's not fully true. The car is still able to function normally. It just doesn´t make any sense to do so, as you´d be far from competitive with 160+ horses missing for over half a minute per lap. Better to save the car and had back to the pits.
This shit gets me hyped.
I hope I'll be able to watch the race this time. Can't wait for the inevitable disappointment.
Green for go, red for stop. More Alonso favouritism!
I'm not convinced that'll pass scrutineering.
It can all be deactivated and the fly by wire brakes have a standard hydraulic backup. Just running with no ERS working is up there with Pistorius running in the able bodied Olympics. Sure you're on the same track, but you sure as fuck can't compete at the top end.
Hell, I'd be interested to see if a car with no ERS could even finish in the top 15.
All that extra torque gone, I'm guessing turbo lag would come back as the ERS is part of the system that keeps the turbo spooled. It's be a mess.
We all now know exactly why Webber left.
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Moar pics
Mercedes
New Mercedes airbox,
Batwing under the nose
Rear end
Ferrari
Two very different Ferrari wings
Some teams want 7 hours to change an engine, some teams 3 hours acording to Whiting
http://adamcooperf1.com/2014/03/13/teams-set-to-miss-fp3-to-preserve-their-cars/
http://adamcooperf1.com/2014/03/13/teams-set-to-miss-fp3-to-preserve-their-cars/
Thx for clearing this up...
Psychotext
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Wow, 7 hours is insane. I wonder which team that is.
It probably depends on the definition. Exchanging the whole power train should be lots quicker than exchanging the gas engine only. At least that's what I´d do, you could still salvage the turbo and ERS later.
Psychotext
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No 107% rule this weekend, which is common sense in my eyes: http://www.planetf1.com/driver/3213/9210777/Stewards-won-t-enforce-107-rule
Maaan, just imagine, the current world champion only able to race through a petition of mercy?
a man can dream, right?
Psychotext
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They reckoned the Red Bull would just about make 107%. Not so much for the Caterham or the Lotus though.
Makes sense from a sporting stand point as of course you're going to have some really slow cars out there with such massive differences and some teams sorting out major problems.
Psychotext
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http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2014/01/15/new-fuel-limit-2014-toughest-f1-rule/
It'll actually be worse than that though as they'll be taking corners more slowly which will mean more fuel to get back up to full speed.
Hamilton said in that interview that apex speeds weren't much different, they just can't get on the power as early. They also aren't going to be flat through fast corners so will not be using fuel up in those sections.
Looks like Montreal is going to see the cars as fast for as much of the race as possible if they only used 112KG with the V8 engines.
Wonder if teams will still use 100KG and just run harder or put less in and run the same as the other tracks.
Spain on the other hand might be a snooze.
I think it will be great. Have some guys running flat out thinking that the fuel will cope, then have some guys running at half the power on their engine and the tension of the guys at the front seeing if they'll run out of fuel or not.
The teams and the FIA have real time information about how much fuel in being used and how much has been used. The fuel flow sensor and the injectors are all recording exactly what's being used which is more accurate than they have had in years gone by.
Should be easier for them all to manage the fuel with all that data.
What interested me is what teams will do if they car gets to 100KG fo fuel used during the race, say 5 corners before the end.
If they go over 100KG it's a penalty, they'll never have to worry about having enough to get to the pits like before.
Wait, so they have more than 100KG in the car, but that's all they can use? That seems pointless. I thought the regulation was to make F1 more "green", but I doubt they're taking the excess fuel out to use again.
Psychotext
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Hamilton might have said it, but the data I've seen suggested otherwise. They were faster on the straights and slower on the corners. In some cases, significantly.
Bought myself one of those fancy season passes, can't wait till tonight!
Damn, got all excited thinking it was some online way to watch every race.
brotkasten
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Caterham kinda fixed the livery on the nose.
They can only use 100KG between the lights out and the chequered flag. They will all load up with probably 105+KG when they leave the pit because they need to do one or more warm up laps before taking the grid slot, formation lap and then the return to pits.
F1 will be more green. They'll do laps a couple of seconds off last years pace with a two thirds of the fuel.
Ah interesting.
Ah, that makes more sense. I was thinking that at Spain, they'd end up filling it up with a lot more "just in case" for a second there then take the penalty. Obviously that would incure more weight, but actually getting to the flag would be more important for some teams.
Psychotext
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That caterham nose looks much better than it did.
Yeah, but it looks like their new nose is difficult to reproduce. I wonder what are they cooking...
Sorry
Just talking the app... but there are a lot of streaming sites that stream it in crappy-less crappy quality...
New Mclaren look. I like it but looks a bit boring as well.
https://twitter.com/McLarenF1/status/443886583792418817
Looks beautiful imo.
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