Neither the front nor the rear wheels (rim and tyre) are tethered.
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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.
It better does (rain) because Vettel's FERRARI are by far the car to beat according to race sims on both super and ultra soft tyres and that was achieved with a 6 race weekends old engine.
The wheel (rim) goes over and is tightened to a rotating spindle, the spindle rotates inside the upright carrier in tow bearings, the bigger one on the outside of the upright carrier and the smaller one on the inside and is held in by a big nut at the back of the upright carrier.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.
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Perhaps, but there's no way around the time cost for anybody, since everyone pays for that at the end in full. Personally I'd just find it a drag and a tedious affair to spend time on reminding drivers of who's coming up from the back when it can be automated by the car (same way DRS is beeped into their earpieces).Brenton wrote: ↑23 Jun 2018, 03:01Hmm... 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.
In auto racing there is almost always an externality cost problem with safety ... organizations, tracks, and teams don't bear the full cost of injury or death in racing. And there's an externality cost that individual teams place on other teams and the track/event/etc in that the teams don't bear the full cost of things like a wheel coming loose or a collision with another car, etc.. So teams take more risk with things like collision with another car, or hazardous debris prevention, than they would if they had to pay the full cost. Sorry for poor explanation.
Funny that the official site of F1 says the top three teams are all within a tenth in race sim. Do you have those times?saviour stivala wrote: ↑23 Jun 2018, 04:56What is the use of being faster than the rest of the field over a lap on tyres modified as per your wish other than to showboat, when number 5 FERRARI achieves by far the best race sims times on both super and ultra soft tyre with a 6 race weekend old engine.
Must be smoking something. Let me put the times here.falonso81 wrote: ↑23 Jun 2018, 08:00Funny that the official site of F1 says the top three teams are all within a tenth in race sim. Do you have those times?saviour stivala wrote: ↑23 Jun 2018, 04:56What is the use of being faster than the rest of the field over a lap on tyres modified as per your wish other than to showboat, when number 5 FERRARI achieves by far the best race sims times on both super and ultra soft tyre with a 6 race weekend old engine.
"We've had various people analyse the FP2 times, myself included. They are usually a very reasonable proxy of race pace for the 1st stint.komninosm wrote: ↑23 Jun 2018, 08:57What are you on about? Never trust Friday practice, and "race simulations average" even less.
And the tire conspiracy theories are tiring without evidence.
BTW what does this mean?:
"I hope you are not inviting all those who enjoy this discussion about how Pirelli has favored Mercedes.
So what's your verdict for tomorrow?Fulcrum wrote: ↑23 Jun 2018, 09:12We've had various people analyse the FP2 times, myself included. They are usually a very reasonable proxy of race pace for the 1st stint.komninosm wrote: ↑23 Jun 2018, 08:57What are you on about? Never trust Friday practice, and "race simulations average" even less.
And the tire conspiracy theories are tiring without evidence.
BTW what does this mean?:
"I hope you are not inviting all those who enjoy this discussion about how Pirelli has favored Mercedes.
There is no race tomorrow. Only qualifying, and he didn't say anything about 1 lap pace.komninosm wrote: ↑23 Jun 2018, 09:23So what's your verdict for tomorrow?Fulcrum wrote: ↑23 Jun 2018, 09:12We've had various people analyse the FP2 times, myself included. They are usually a very reasonable proxy of race pace for the 1st stint.komninosm wrote: ↑23 Jun 2018, 08:57What are you on about? Never trust Friday practice, and "race simulations average" even less.
And the tire conspiracy theories are tiring without evidence.
BTW what does this mean?:
"I hope you are not inviting all those who enjoy this discussion about how Pirelli has favored Mercedes.
It's not really a corner. Everyone's flat there.PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑23 Jun 2018, 03:57Got to say I like the track from onboard. Smooth flowing layout. Did he just do 300 kph through a corner?
The audio is strange on my headphones , left to right ear on headphones, on TV speakers it's not noticeable. I think high notes on the left ear and low on the right. Why's that?Juzh wrote: ↑23 Jun 2018, 09:44It's not really a corner. Everyone's flat there.PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑23 Jun 2018, 03:57Got to say I like the track from onboard. Smooth flowing layout. Did he just do 300 kph through a corner?