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Lewis Hamilton has taken an easy victory in France thanks to a controlled performance at Circuit Paul Ricard. Max Verstappen raced anonymously to second place while Kimi Raikkonen completed the podium for Ferrari.
Same thing probably happened to Alonso earlier this year.
The car seems slightly loose at the rear but OK in general.
Wheel tethers are a bit of a misnomer, as none of the wheels are tethered. The uprights/wheel carriers, however, do have two tethers each (eight per car). The torque of the wheel nut holds the wheel to the carrier, and a spring loaded retainer tab keeps the nut from backing out if the nut becomes loose. If a piece of debris prevented the wheel nut from seating, then proper torque could still be applied, but the nut would not have not been threaded on deeply enough for the retainer tab to engage. When the debris falls out, or the unevenly loaded wheel nut vibrates loose, there's nothing to stop the wheel and nut from falling off the upright/carrier.
Oh, I see.Thank you for the note Sevach.
Aha, thank you for this explanation.roon wrote: ↑22 Jun 2018, 22:55Wheel tethers are a bit of a misnomer, as none of the wheels are tethered. The uprights/wheel carriers, however, do have two tethers each (eight per car). The torque of the wheel nut holds the wheel to the carrier, and a spring loaded retainer tab keeps the nut from backing out if the nut becomes loose. If a piece of debris prevented the wheel nut from seating, then proper torque could still be applied, but the nut would not have not been threaded on deeply enough for the retainer tab to engage. When the debris falls out, or the unevenly loaded wheel nut vibrates loose, there's nothing to stop the wheel and nut from falling off the upright/carrier.
Hence:
https://images.indianexpress.com/2018/0 ... alonso.jpg
Why does FIA not simply close the pits while safety car comes out like most oval racing does? Where you can pit but you have to go to the back of the line before the restart as a penalty for doing so. They could open the pits once the cars are bunched together like in Nascar. I don't understand why because this system is much more fair and better racing.atanatizante wrote: ↑22 Jun 2018, 23:17
And now these are my simple proposal for better racing:
1. Mandatory 3 stop race, cuz 2 stop could be easily compromised at the start of the race with a SC phase.
Hmm... how much info on the dashboard during usual driving in practice/qualifying does the driver need? Maybe it would be easy to implement this without issue. But what is stopping this is the teams need enough incentive. Right now there's not enough consequence for misbehavior for them to implement something like that.Sierra117 wrote: ↑22 Jun 2018, 13:09A slightly less-discussed topic, how about the teams include a mini-map of everyone on the grid (same way we see on TV or in a racing game)? Like on a tiny section of the dash, maybe not even a map just a name that suggests someone is immediately behind you. That way we can finally eliminate this issue of someone going too slow in front or suddenly turning in or teams forgetting to inform of someone faster. Or at least to reduce the events. I'm sure there can be some sort of solution, it doesn't seem like a monumental task.
F1 did that years ago. It didn't help.Brenton wrote: ↑23 Jun 2018, 00:51Why does FIA not simply close the pits while safety car comes out like most oval racing does? .atanatizante wrote: ↑22 Jun 2018, 23:17
And now these are my simple proposal for better racing:
1. Mandatory 3 stop race, cuz 2 stop could be easily compromised at the start of the race with a SC phase.
Got to say I like the track from onboard. Smooth flowing layout. Did he just do 300 kph through a corner?
