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You know, as someone who lives quite close to Talladega I find that interesting, especially since 'Dega has a roval combining the road course and oval. That would be the sort of spectical.that gets worldwide attention.toraabe wrote:450 Km/h bring them to talladega ...
Well, today it´s not possible to corner at same speed since the trailing car always suffer from dirty air, so active aero making possible to corner at equal speed than the car in front would be a huge step forwardMoose wrote:Limiting downforce is equivalent to limiting cornering speed. It would guarantee no racing at all, since it would be impossible to corner faster than another person unless that other person made a mistake.
It is - but by the time you get to the level of the 22 guys competing in F1, the lines are so close to the perfect line that it makes basically no difference. These guys travel within inches of the racing line on a dry lap. Certainly not enough to make enough difference to pass someone.Andres125sx wrote:Well, today it´s not possible to corner at same speed since the trailing car always suffer from dirty air, so active aero making possible to corner at equal speed than the car in front would be a huge step forwardMoose wrote:Limiting downforce is equivalent to limiting cornering speed. It would guarantee no racing at all, since it would be impossible to corner faster than another person unless that other person made a mistake.
Anycase I disagree with your statement, that´d be true only if all drivers take exactly same line, but that´s far from real, driving through a corner is a lot more than the peak G achieved
machin wrote:Rather than specifying parameters such as horsepower, downforce, weight, etc ... why not go a level further; back to the fundamental three things that govern the performance of a vehicle:-
Accelerative G-forces
Deccelerative G-forces
corning G-forces
In tennis the referee stops the whole game the moment there is an infraction. The equivalent in F1 would be if we stopped the whole race the moment a driver goes over the line, penalised the driver (or not, if the video referee exonerates him), then resumed the race until the next infraction occurs. This is too much of a deviation from motorsport as we know it to be reasonable, in my opinion!notsofast wrote:Wouldn't that be just like hitting the ball over the line in tennis?
No need to wait for anything, it´s a sensor, if someone goes beyond the G limit a red light will lit into the stewards room and they can instantly punish the infractorzac510 wrote:How would the g-forces be policed? If you had a lap taken away from you because you went over g-force on the data logs, well we see every year that penalising drivers after a lap or race is completed is very unpopular with the general public. It's OK in the world of science and thought experiments, but not in practice.
That´s a good idea, but it should have some delay, as a sudden power drop when cornering at the limit will cause a sharp change in the balance and most probably an accident. But if the driver is warned with a light in the wheel, and the power drop start some seconds after the light warned the driver, that would work flawlesslyzac510 wrote:If we put some sort of physical limit on the car, for example if, at 6G load the fuel pressure supply to the car is cut off causing a drop in horsepower, then the punishment would occur during the same lap as the infraction so represented in realtime.
Good point.zac510 wrote:the non-stop aspect of the sport
So, let's say that the limit for cornering is 6G. What if the punishment is to force the driver to make an adjustment each time the limit is exceeded. For example, if on lap 30 the measurement is 6.1G in turn 7, then before the end of the race he needs to take turn 7 at no more than 5.9G at least once.Andres125sx wrote:No need to wait for anything, it´s a sensor
