Holy Aerodynamics, batman! (f1 related)

Jayridesacove · Jun 17, 2005

F1 is great to watch. The sounds of the engines on a 6th gear straight give me a boner.

Ciaran · Jun 17, 2005

All of a sudden I have a new found respect for you.

F yeah! F1 rocks! Personally I was always a Villeneuve fan. But then I was following him since before he was in CART cars. I am glad he has his head on straight again and is taking racing seriously. Someday I am going to an F1 race.. someday. Personally I don't think the Indianapolis track is a very good one. I think that they should have had the USGP at Road America. Much nicer, and it's a fast, fun track. Big too. But what can you do, that's Tony George at work.

The F1 cars are so beautiful. Truely art on wheels. Especially the McLarens and the Ferraris. So smooth and flowing. Have you ever seen them do the safety testing for the FIA? Oh man, they smash the cars! Fun to watch.

I was really bummed when we lost Senna. He is still missed out there.

Are they practicing or qualifying right now?

steve45 · Jun 17, 2005

F you! i have to wait till tomorrow to see any footage, we only get live quali and race. have to rely on the god-damned intraweb for my updates outside of that.
the mclaren is without a doubt the best looking car on the grid.
they never fail to make that thing look mean. those horns add to the bad-ass-ness of it.

followed closely by the Redbull Racing, i love the colour scheme.

gonna be a good race, looing good for the mclarens hopefully kimi can claw back some points on alonso. also cosworth have brought there new engine for the redbull team another few hundred rpm and 30bhp over the current engine, wonder if we'll see another strong points finish for couthard/liuzzi.

oh and le mans 24h is on this weekend as well, looking forward o a motorsport filled weekend, supposedly eurosport are covering about 12hours of le mans live over th race.

Acadian · Jun 17, 2005

Jayridesacove said:
The sounds of the engines on a 6th gear straight give me a boner.

understatement...
http://a1204.v67532.c6753.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/1204/6753/4017d069/medcost.download.akamai.com/6753/viry_rs24/viry_rs24_220.wmv

stevew · Jun 17, 2005

I loved the sound of the my brothers big block V8 made.

Considering what he shoved it in, it was quite funny to.

F1 engines are ok.

ncrider · Jun 17, 2005

splat

Pau11y · Jun 17, 2005

Acadian said:
understatement...
http://a1204.v67532.c6753.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/1204/6753/4017d069/medcost.download.akamai.com/6753/viry_rs24/viry_rs24_220.wmv

Hehehe.. that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up

Those injectors looks nice; I need new fuel injectors in my Jetta.

Ciaran · Jun 17, 2005

Let's start our own F1 team... Formula Monkey!

http://www.race-cars.com/carsales/other/1053630694/1053630694pp.htm

You got shocks, wings... lucky!

Andy_B · Jun 17, 2005

Jayridesacove said:
<snip>The sounds of the engines on a 6th gear straight give me a boner.

I thought most F1 teams were rolling 7+1 gearboxes these days... :think:

Damn True · Jun 17, 2005

I just wish they'd decided to hold the event at a real road course rather than at Indy.

Laguna Seca, Sears Point, Road America, Watkins Glen something other than Indy.

Mike B. · Jun 17, 2005

I'd love to go check out an F1 race. The IRL crews were in the area this week testing at Watkins for the September race. A friend of mine shoots video when NASCAR races at the Glen and he couldn't believe how much faster and harder to follow they were. Five drivers broke the course record on Wednesday. I can't imagine the F1 guys buzzing around there since F1 last visited in the early '80s.

BTW, I think Danica was 13th or 17th out of 19 testing.

Toshi · Jun 17, 2005

Andy_B said:
I thought most F1 teams were rolling 7+1 gearboxes these days...

maybe he only likes the sound of them on short straights?

ink:

Jayridesacove · Jun 17, 2005

Yea, most teams, but not all. Doesn't really matter with the 05 rules for decreasing aerodynamics, in an effort to keep speeds down for "safety" purposes. And by the time the cars hit close to their top speed in 6th gear, it's time to slow down for a turn anyway.

Acadian said:
understatement...
http://a1204.v67532.c6753.g.vm.akam...ry_rs24_220.wmv

Excellent video! I salivated, urinated and deficated at the same time.

Ciaran · Jun 17, 2005

And it must be mentioned. As much as the FIA hates to hear it (as if they were reading this anyway)... Race tires do NOT have grooves in them!!!!!!
Silly FIA.

Ciaran · Jun 17, 2005

mack said:
Yeah, what are those grooves for?

I saw one of the Toyota cars hit a wall and the tires are tethered to the frame some how with these nylon straps so they dont fly off and hit spectators. It was being brought back on some sort of lifter truck and the wheels were just haning off of the frame. Now what fun is that?

The grooves are an attempt to slow the cars down.

The tires are tethered because in the past more than once spectators hae been killed by wheels flying off in to the stands.

Have you ever driven a go-kart? A race kart, not the little put put lawnmower engine ones... So fast. So fun.

steve45 · Jun 18, 2005

yep sidewall weakness, michelan claim that with some of the cars they can only guarentee the tires will only last around 40/50 laps, they are trying to get everyteam to agree to allow them to fly in new tires, if there is just one team that dont agree they wont be allowed to.
all the michilan runners have to run there tires with higher pressures just now to make sure they stay intact.

i watched the full qualifying earlier.
riakkonen(sp?) 2nd looking good for the race, from the looks of it the toyota is running rather light on fuel so thats not really a real representation of there real pace.
so i think its looking good for a kimi win or at least podium position, thats considering his michy's hold together and he stays on te road..

i think the redbull setup was heavily effected by the tire pressure change, i thng as the get used to the fealling of the car they will have decent race pace..

Silver · Jun 18, 2005

Ciaran said:
The tires are tethered because in the past more than once spectators hae been killed by wheels flying off in to the stands.

I thought they put the tethers in after Senna died? The crash didn't kill him, the wheel and suspension coming back into the cockpit did.

Toshi · Jun 18, 2005

Silver said:
I thought they put the tethers in after Senna died? The crash didn't kill him, the wheel and suspension coming back into the cockpit did.

does anyone have a link for what these tethers actually look like? i am still trying to wrap my head around how they might attach.

Silver · Jun 18, 2005

http://www.f1technical.net/article64.html

No pictures, but a neat explanation.

Toshi · Jun 18, 2005

thanks.

Pau11y · Jun 18, 2005

I remember Toronto had an annual grand prix, or maybe it was every other year. Anyway, I was too young to go. But man I'd go now if I ever make it back there. They'd shut down the entire downtown by the Tower for it from what I remember. I also recall seeing a vid shot from a heli over the lake at the water front w/ the skyline in the background... Those cars were moving soooo fast and darty that they didn't look real!

Ciaran · Jun 18, 2005

Silver said:
I thought they put the tethers in after Senna died? The crash didn't kill him, the wheel and suspension coming back into the cockpit did.

Not sure about F1 specifically. Many race series have the tethers. Spectators have been killed by errant wheels though.

Andyman_1970 · Jun 19, 2005

Damn True said:
I just wish they'd decided to hold the event at a real road course rather than at Indy.

Laguna Seca, Sears Point, Road America, Watkins Glen something other than Indy.

Yeah a real road course would be real nice............hopefully all the cars will show up on the grid to race............ :angry:

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