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MacKinnon

I never saw this here, so forgive me if it was already posted:

MacKinnon

P-F1 Mod wrote:Can I just query one thing... Most of the thread is fine with unicorns existing, but magical saddles are too far?

...This from the forum that bought you HRT - HOW Racing Team.

At a firesale price right?

MacKinnon

One thing I think most don't realize about Nascar is the cars are sliding the whole time! I mean look at Kenseth, one little tap at pitlane speeds made the car do a 180.... Most of the grip comes from the banking, in terms of lateral traction the cars are scary looking at almost all times. It takes ...

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Corrected the units.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the calculations seem off. You start off with a value of how many kWhr it takes to light the track. This is a measure of Energy. Not a measure of power. So you shouldn't be multiplying this by the length of time it is on for. Upon further research I realialize I am not ...

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http://www.planetf1.com/driver/18227/9183961/Ecclestone-hints-at-Sochi-night-race So we have cars this year that have a fuel flow limit and 100kg fuel limit in efforts to be "green"..... 1kg of fuel gives 12900 watt-hours, or 12.9kWh (kilowatt hour) Singapore requires 3,180 kilowatts to power the tr...

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Irish-F1 wrote:The chances of STR giving RB any information is as likely as Merc giving RB information.
They are two different teams that just happen to be sponsored by the same company!!

LOL yea, they wouldn't share anything.....

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Pretty sure they can change the final drive ratio (ring and pinion) at each track, they just cant alter each individual ratio.

Would be awesome to see 400kph like the '94 LeMans before they added the chicanes down Mulsanne

EDIT: Make that 1988 LeMans!

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I particularly enjoyed Matt Kenseth's handbrake 180 into his pit box!

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I honestly think Ferrari would have declined to supply their brand spanking new engine to STR. Ferrari are trying to beat RedBull, so why leak the most important and technically advanced part straight to the #1 competitor?? Think about it, if STR had a Ferrari power unit (which seems to function qui...

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Well Rosberg just went low 1:33 range, so it looks like the 2014 cars are already faster than the 2013's

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I predict them to be a bit slower, but we're all unsure on the tires, and I'm certainly not sure how much the gear ratio changes will affect the actual power output from the cars. Gears multiply torque, and if they are going from 7 to 8 speeds, they should benefit from an actual torque increase to ...

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I think you're maybe implying that Ferrari declined to supply STR due to their secrets leaking to RedBull ?? If so, I agree, and I personally wouldn't want to supply RBR's backup team either if I were a company with it's own works operation in F1.

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Newey mentioned that Renault have specified a minimum temperature for the inlet air reaching the plenum, and Red Bull have trouble reaching that target. It will be a maximum temperature they have specified, as you want the intake air to be as cool as possible for density and thereby power. Getting ...

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Comments on the article were very critical, but I think this is better than someone who comes from a feeder series, hasn't done much, but has a boatload of sponsor money behind them!

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linkinstreet wrote:
MacKinnon wrote: As for the P1 itself, did anyone else notice the exhaust spitting plasma in the one scene where the slid past the camera? Just Awesome.
Ask and ye shall receive

Yup. Awesome.

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That Stenhouse move has to go down as one the dumbest things I've seen in racing, he can't see a thing ahead of him and what does the idiot do? he accelerates, he could have seriously injured little Danica It was kinda Danica's fault, she didn't steer back right as the car was coming around, so whe...

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I started a thread myself but was beaten to it. So I'll repost my thoughts here. Frankly, I don't get this team anymore. Last year, they threw away probably the biggest up-and-coming talent - Frijns. They wanted to prepare Sirotkin for a 2014 race seat. Awfully young, but possibly talented, althoug...

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Well if it's any comfort, I don't take too much pride of getting this from wikipedia. At least you have gathered way more information than me about it for yourself. In a way wikipedia has killed a lot of interesting (and probably never-ending) discussions. Everybody knows everything. This is also w...

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McLaren WERE working toward developing their own F1 V8 engine with Ricardo until the decision to switch to V6 engines. The Mp4-12 and P1 engine is based on a TWR/Nissan LM engine design with entirely new heads and improvements to the block, so really it only shares bore spacing with the original des...

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You finish with one of the most comically parochial paragraphs I've ever seen. You don't have to justify your position by trying to explain you're not homophobic. I don't care. But if you feel the need then describing how you once tipped a gay waiter is on a par with justifying not being racist by ...

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz0e6WHdlZ0

and followup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXATzDBDjgo

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P-9oYUwA_E

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You finish with one of the most comically parochial paragraphs I've ever seen. You don't have to justify your position by trying to explain you're not homophobic. I don't care. But if you feel the need then describing how you once tipped a gay waiter is on a par with justifying not being racist by ...

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you cant expect everyone to have the same moral code No we can't. But that explains why someone might be offended by the tweet, it's not a justification for removing and apologising for it. Lots of people might be offended by racist words... by your reasoning that's no justification for removing an...

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The engine sound alone so far is not great, but will get better with revs and when teams start pushing full tilt. But I do like the new combination of sounds, the engine braking, ignition cut, ERS spool up on corner entry sounds like something our of Star-Wars and it's pretty damn cool. And then hea...

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They can change the final drive ratio for each track, but at some point thousands of gearchanges in a race becomes more time lost and more of a reliability problem with the gearbox. Especially with a high torque car, I think at Monaco teams might opt to set the final drive so the car only uses 6or7 ...

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I guess we'll see in 2015, but the Honda switch has potential to be disastrous for McLaren... As an engine maker, Honda are absolutely A+, but we'll see how their hybrid technology with the ERS etc works out. Currently I think Toyota probably have the best experience with that from many years of bui...

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So ferrari are using a Jake Brake ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT4sHf1gYLI

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Surely a larger contact patch on the tires would mean less wear and the tires are less likely to slip more than they should? Funny thing about this, a wider tire does not have a larger contact patch. Pneumatic tires have a contact patch determined by air pressure and weight on each corner. These ca...

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He's interpreting avon tire data and then using tire deflection to calculate contact patch length based on the radius of an unloaded tire.

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I've grown up an America, anad I'm no nascar fan but you guys are really blowing this out of proportion and I think not understanding how it really works. A driver could easily take the championship without winning a SINGLE race, this system just weights the wins more heavily. Also, you don't even h...

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Surely a larger contact patch on the tires would mean less wear and the tires are less likely to slip more than they should? Funny thing about this, a wider tire does not have a larger contact patch. Pneumatic tires have a contact patch determined by air pressure and weight on each corner. These ca...

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Yes champions were crowned under different points systems, but the points were the same for the ENTIRE season. Even the system where you only counted your best 7 results in each half season is completely fair since the points remained the same and each driver got to drop some his worst results, rega...

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http://www.planetf1.com/driver/18227/9145100/FIA-question-nose-safety What a farce... It seems clear to me the FIA aren't even competent enough to consider consulting someone like Craig Scarborough to give an assessment how the regs might be interpreted. Brilliant...... someone who is good at techn...

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No conspiracy theory here, just logical thinking that actually lines up with how things played out. Ferrari ASSUMED Webber had lots of valuable IP. Maybe he didn't. Maybe part of the reason he didn't make the move was because he knew that he wasn't privy to RBR's most advanced car tech. It perfectl...

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tootsie323 wrote:This is probably a Get-My-Coat moment but, in the light of the recent issues with Red Bull and its tightly-packaged unit at Jerez, I can't help but imagine a Renault engineer asking, 'Does my ERS look big in this..?

Brilliant.

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I hope the teams end up copying the Merc nose by the next test, or the FIA rewords the regulation requiring the nose to maintain width within 10% or something to that effect

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No conspiracy theory here, just logical thinking that actually lines up with how things played out. Ferrari ASSUMED Webber had lots of valuable IP. Maybe he didn't. Maybe part of the reason he didn't make the move was because he knew that he wasn't privy to RBR's most advanced car tech. It perfectl...

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I think if anything, they should have limited the car's to 1.5L turbo V8's and mandated a production head. And I mean a full production head casting, no modification other than porting and obviously better cams. It would be somewhat relevant because all the manufacturers make a V8 or 4cylinder engin...

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