Just_a_fan wrote:mep wrote:
Whenever I hear Hamilton or Denis talking about
points of downforce in front of the camera my blood pressure raises.
Can't we take them to court for using unknown units in puplic.
Points of downforce is the way F1 talks about d/f. I don't know exactly what a 'point' is but I'm guessing it's a dimensionless unit...
That is the problem nobody knows what it is.
When these guys stand in front of the camera then they speak to millions of people and none of them knows this unit. It's just their very lame way to lie to the fans or simply just hide their lack of knowledge.
Then they come up with sentences like Redbull has twice the points of downfoce than we have or this idea from Hamilton improved the car by 3 points of downforce.
All just trash talk.
They should remember that they stay in front of this camera to say anything to the people out there.
Not to pleasure themselves or the journalist.
You either stay silent or you are honest and bring real figures.
Every technical minded fan or engineer should get very angry about that.
There is only one unit for downforce and this is NEWTON.
When you want to be exact you say you have
xxx N downfoce at a speed of yyy m/s.
This is the only way to do it.
You can come up now and say points are common in F1.
I tell you something can be common but it doesn't change the fact that it is big bullsh!t.