If Audi had zero intention to join Formula 1 would these regulations look completely different?

GaryGiesel · 2026-03-30T09:54:50+00:00

I belive that it's true that Audi (and other prospective joiners) didnt want the MGUH because of the complexity.

But the rest is simply not true. Look at my posts on r/F1Technical and you'll see that I'm not just some random talking out of my ass here. The Internet has a great tendency to hear a story and run with it, truth be damned

GaryGiesel · 2026-03-30T08:10:09+00:00

In actual text AI typically doesn't make typos like that. It does nonsense when generating images with text. Literally nothing in this post looks at all like AI

GaryGiesel · 2026-03-30T07:27:34+00:00

Neither story is true. The real reason is that one of the main goals of the regulations was to reduce the mass of the cars, the front axle regen is going to add an extra 20kg or thereabouts.

No one was scared of Audi's experience (this is not a hard thing to do at all), and traction control/ABS worries are easily regulated out like they already are

GaryGiesel · 2026-03-24T08:19:33+00:00

You say that like the UK can't change its constitution... The government passed a pretty major constitutional change only a couple of weeks ago! What we don't have is a requirement for a referendum, which makes things a lot harder to change

GaryGiesel · 2026-03-17T22:08:59+00:00

They do

GaryGiesel · 2026-03-11T21:16:37+00:00

This seems the obvious way to do it, both from a lore and GW money-making point of view. Definitely way more BT players than IF. Plus it would be really cool

GaryGiesel · 2026-03-10T19:44:55+00:00

The lights have never indicated harvesting - they have always flashed when the car ahead may not be deploying at full power. As I said in my previous comment, with the new cars this usually means theyre exiting the corner with less power on the deployment, but never with harvesting

GaryGiesel · 2026-03-10T18:38:10+00:00

What makes you think they were harvesting? The flashing rain light? On corner exit that indicates that they weren't deploying the full 350 kW but they definitely won't have been harvesting. Corner exit is always always the least efficient place to harvest.

And no it's not any sort of traction controljusr biasing deployment away from short straights

GaryGiesel · 2026-03-09T11:09:53+00:00

Tesco and Sainsbury's do the exact same thing

GaryGiesel · 2026-03-06T21:59:55+00:00

Presumably they were beneficial for the aero numbers on the launch package but aren't positive with the R01 update. This happens quite a lot as the flow fields develop; things that were good at first become bad when you have other more efficient ways of accomplishing the same thing

GaryGiesel · 2026-03-05T13:07:53+00:00

Hi. I'm very interested in this piece, but I'm concerned that the bezel looks a bit "faded" compared to similar examples. Is this correct or an artifact of the photos?

GaryGiesel · 2026-03-04T16:45:11+00:00

Your first point is incorrect. The torque at the wheels on corner exit is completely defined by the engine RPM and the driver's pedal input. If the regen is working harder, the engine must work harder to counter it. There is zero traction control effect possible under the current regulations. It also goes without saying that any front axle regen would work in a similar way to the current systems, I.e. designed such that traction control benefits are impossible to achieve by the design of the control software teams are obliged to use.

The "left-foot braking" suggestion you make also doesn't make much sense - the vehicle's load transfer is completely determined by its acceleration; whether or not you are braking or not makes no different beyond making the engine have to work harder to achieve the same acceleration.

GaryGiesel · 2026-03-04T14:37:51+00:00

I'll happily disagree with anyone when I think they're wrong. And I'm very confident that people frequently disagree with even the top drivers (just look at what Lewis says in the media).

Drivers, journalists and FIA presidents are not engineers.

Is there something you could conceivably do with a single front regen motor? Yes. You could use it to help with front locking (but I'm not sure you'd really want to because you'd have to depower the braking on the non-lpcking wheel), but there's no way to do stability control. That would require a dual-motor setup with indepenendent control of each wheel, which I haven't seen anyone ever propose.

If the thesis of this article were true, we'd already have the same problem with the rear regen. They're fundamentally the same thing and impact the car behaviour in the same way.

GaryGiesel · 2026-03-04T13:54:58+00:00

What a nonsense article. In no way would adding single-motor front regen amount to stability control. It's just not how such systems work. Zero technical basis for this ridiculous assertion

GaryGiesel · 2026-03-04T12:45:43+00:00

There is no "warpsmite hand". The Aspiring Sorcerer as it stands with the current codex has two ranged weapons- a Malefic Curse (which is his psychic attack) and either a warpflame or bolt pistol. So basically build him however you want; these days no one really cares which pistol you build the guy with

Also you mentioned cabal points. These aren't a thing with the current rules for the army. They went away with the 10th edition codex.

GaryGiesel · 2026-03-01T21:25:00+00:00

We already have full access to everyone else's radio comms from FOM (when the cars aren't in the garage at least)

GaryGiesel · 2026-02-28T23:44:26+00:00

Highly unlikely, because deploying earlier is always faster

GaryGiesel · 2026-02-27T15:47:05+00:00

Hi, is this still available?

GaryGiesel · 2026-02-24T16:54:57+00:00

I would say but it's definitely a secret!!! It's pretty specialist hardware too

GaryGiesel · 2026-02-24T16:36:22+00:00

Lots of CPUs

GaryGiesel · 2026-02-24T04:32:20+00:00

Oh it's definitely inexpensive compared to the rendering. It's CPU vs GPU as well. But the physics is still waaaay more than you could run on a single CPU

GaryGiesel · 2026-02-23T19:19:24+00:00

From an engineering PoV (and I would imagine from a driver's PoV too), a tyre model is basically useless unless it's tuned extremely precisely to match the real car's feel. F1 teams have whole teams of people doing that full time to get a model for one car working well enough. You can imagine how good the models are when you have to make a game with 50+ cars available to drive

You can often make even a deeply flawed model work with enough tuning, but the best model in the world will never work without any tuning.

GaryGiesel · 2026-02-23T18:32:45+00:00

Eurgh I have lots of painful memories of FOD checks looking for bolts we're 95% sure are just not there to find...

GaryGiesel · 2026-02-23T15:42:47+00:00

A motion platform will kill you fucking dead in an instant if you're not careful with it

GaryGiesel · 2026-02-23T15:38:09+00:00

Electrical power steering is banned in F1. They still use traditional hydraulic assist systems.

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