Simviation Forum - New F1 rules via animation

Feb 10^th, 2009 at 5:52am

expat Offline
Colonel
Deep behind enemy lines!

Gender:
Posts: 8499

Here is a nice animated video explaining some of the new F1 rules covering the car construction

Matt

PETA People Eating Tasty Animals.

B1 Boeing 737-800 and Dash8 Q-400

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #1 - Feb 10^th, 2009 at 10:50am

The Ruptured Duck Offline
Colonel
Legally sane since yesterday!
Wichita, KS

Gender:
Posts: 2614

Interesting video, thanks for posting!

I have to say, the new regs are going to be interesting in a few years. Mario Andretti has said that the best formula is high horsepower and low downforce, just like CART in the 1990's. Once all the teams catch up and the playing field is more competitive the racing will be alot of fun to watch.

So power boost from KERS is an electric assistance motor attached to the drivetrain?

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing" -Ben Franklin&&&&"Man must rise above the Earth to the top of the atmosphere and beyond, for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives." - Socrates&&&&" Flying is a religion. A religion that asymilates all who get a taste of it." - Me&&&&"Make the most out of yourself, for that is all there is of you"- Ralf Waldo Emerson&&

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #2 - Feb 10^th, 2009 at 3:12pm

Mushroom_Farmer Offline
Colonel
To the Sooper-Coop Fred
Indiana, USA

Gender:
Posts: 1976

Sooooo 1989. Grin

&&&&"We're just sitting here trying to put our PCjrs in a pile and burn them. And the damn things won't burn. That's the only thing IBM did right with it - they made it flameproof." && Spinnaker Software chairman William Bowman, 1985

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #3 - Feb 10^th, 2009 at 5:12pm

Craig. Offline
Colonel
Birmingham

Gender:
Posts: 18590

The Ruptured Duck wrote on Feb 10^th, 2009 at 10:50am:

Interesting video, thanks for posting!

I have to say, the new regs are going to be interesting in a few years. Mario Andretti has said that the best formula is high horsepower and low downforce, just like CART in the 1990's. Once all the teams catch up and the playing field is more competitive the racing will be alot of fun to watch.

So power boost from KERS is an electric assistance motor attached to the drivetrain?

Wont make any differance. Until the rev restrictions are lifted KERS slicks wings, nothing will make a differance, the extra power boost is negated by the fact they'll hit 18k revs before they have a chance to make it worth while. And yes it can either be an electrical(battery) or mechanical (flywheel- as being used by williams) system for kers. Although as a usual show of common sense every team except williams are going battery system but next years rules state it must be a mechanical system. So the millions teams spend this year will be wasted.
It'll be interesting to see whch teams choose to run it at the start and who wont. And it'll be interesting to see who runs it every race. Some races like monaco, its likely we wont see it run as the weight would likely offset the benefits.

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #4 - Feb 11^th, 2009 at 4:54am

expat Offline
Colonel
Deep behind enemy lines!

Gender:
Posts: 8499

Craig. wrote on Feb 10^th, 2009 at 5:12pm:

The Ruptured Duck wrote on Feb 10^th, 2009 at 10:50am:

Interesting video, thanks for posting!

I have to say, the new regs are going to be interesting in a few years. Mario Andretti has said that the best formula is high horsepower and low downforce, just like CART in the 1990's. Once all the teams catch up and the playing field is more competitive the racing will be alot of fun to watch.

So power boost from KERS is an electric assistance motor attached to the drivetrain?

Wont make any differance. Until the rev restrictions are lifted KERS slicks wings, nothing will make a differance, the extra power boost is negated by the fact they'll hit 18k revs before they have a chance to make it worth while. And yes it can either be an electrical(battery) or mechanical (flywheel- as being used by williams) system for kers. Although as a usual show of common sense every team except williams are going battery system but next years rules state it must be a mechanical system. So the millions teams spend this year will be wasted.
It'll be interesting to see whch teams choose to run it at the start and who wont. And it'll be interesting to see who runs it every race. Some races like monaco, its likely we wont see it run as the weight would likely offset the benefits.

A good hard crash and a flywheel breaking away, that should fly for quite a distance. Huh

Matt

PETA People Eating Tasty Animals.

B1 Boeing 737-800 and Dash8 Q-400

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #5 - Feb 11^th, 2009 at 5:19am

Craig. Offline
Colonel
Birmingham

Gender:
Posts: 18590

no worse than the battery catching fire and sending the car up in flames like the fire that happend at red bulls factory last year.
The systems a joke. All the teams except bmw want it delayed, they all know its still to new to be safe. But because they all know it might bring a small advantage they are forced into pressing on.

Back to top

IP Logged

	Search the archive: