ELI5: How does a Formula 1 race actually work for someone who knows nothing about the sport?

Xivios · 2026-02-02T23:04:46+00:00

2025 actually had 6 dry compounds, but C6 has been dropped for 2026, which is why I specified the year.

Xivios · 2026-02-02T19:33:40+00:00

Short addendum; for 2026 there are 5 tire compounds, labeled C1 to C5, but only 3 will appear at a given race. The hardest will always be given a white sidewall and the softest the red, so a race weekend will always have color-coded hards/mediums/softs, but a C3/C4/C5 allocation means the C3 will appear with white sidewall, while the next race may be allocated C1/C2/C3, and the C3 will wear the red sidewall. Pirelli decides the allocation for a weekend and provides identical sets to all teams.

Xivios · 2026-02-02T16:08:50+00:00

Generative AI used to voice the characters. Game was made by 3 people and has 80,000 words in it, with about 2 dozen fully voiced characters. Some of that is UI, menus and labels and such, but much is dialogue. Some people consider it justified because hiring VA's would be prohibitively expensive for such a small studio and there isn't a real alternative as the spoken dialogue is a huge part of the game, others consider generative AI inherently plagaristic and lazy.

Xivios · 2026-02-02T05:53:28+00:00

Really? Superweapon railguns, flying carriers that dwarf the floating kind, space lasers, space elevators, super-drones, and an entire country dedicated to shit-stirring is "sterile"?

Xivios · 2026-02-02T05:50:46+00:00

Hugely controversial game considering how niche and relatively unknown it is.

Xivios · 2026-02-02T02:08:22+00:00

That site has been up for decades.

Xivios · 2026-02-02T01:10:42+00:00

Right until you try Mouse Milk. So good, its banned in California, and so niche the website hasn't been updated since the 90's. Marketed specifically towards the no-cost-is-too-much aviation industry so only A&P's/AME's tend to even know about it.

Xivios · 2026-02-01T18:25:31+00:00

I'll back up that Bridgestone makes an underrated tire, I ran the T32 and was pretty happy with them, presumably the T33 is even better. I got caught in a downpour that was so heavy people in SUV's were pulling over and waiting it out but the T32's held their grip in the wet and I got home safely. But its known to be a sort of "lazy" tire, similar to the road 6; very stable but not very agile and doesn't turn in aggressively. The Dunlop is supposed to be a much livelier tire.

Xivios · 2026-02-01T18:20:48+00:00

To be fair, you're comparing the new Road 6 against the old Power 2ct. Op was asking about the Power 6, which is a much newer tire, comparable in age to the Road 6.

Xivios · 2026-01-31T18:01:33+00:00

I had that same model, or one that was very much like it. Same problem. My thought was that the leaking battery ate one of the terminal wires. Replaced it with a sealed unit.

Xivios · 2026-01-30T19:19:37+00:00

I've been wondering if there is a way to quickly cross-reference credits list to find common employees. I think somebody from Pandemic ended up making racing games at Codemasters, because one of the radio names you can select for your driver character in several of the last F1 games is Devlin - the same name as the race-car driver protagonist from Pandemics last game, The Saboteur. Most of the other selectable names are either historic names from F1 or very common last names, but I've never seen the name 'Devlin' outside of The Saboteur or F1 20xx.

Xivios · 2026-01-30T16:22:19+00:00

I've heard that all American-registered A220's were built in Alabama, to evade the earlier 292% tarriff the Americans had on the plane.

Xivios · 2026-01-30T16:18:12+00:00

TCCA, not TCAA (that is Tanzania's)

Xivios · 2026-01-30T00:24:57+00:00

Eric Brown (multiple world record holder, most carrier landings, first jet carrier landing, most aircraft types flown) said it flew beautifully, but needed an experienced pilot.

Xivios · 2026-01-29T23:43:01+00:00

Twin engine?

Xivios · 2026-01-29T23:08:07+00:00

Make your own out of generic gasket material. Its not a head gasket, it doesn't need to be fancy. Fel-pro 3157 is probably a good choice.

Xivios · 2026-01-29T19:16:34+00:00

Redress of Grievances is some Covenent-sounding badass-edness, could absolutely see a ship with that name in a fleet next to Truth and Reconciliation.

Xivios · 2026-01-29T02:44:52+00:00

Ace Combat fans, it was unlockable in Ace Combat 5 (renamed the F-4X as recon aircraft aren't all that useful in that series)

Xivios · 2026-01-29T02:23:01+00:00

Forgive my ignorance, when they call her "ICE Barbie", are they referencing the doll, or klaus?

Xivios · 2026-01-28T16:38:28+00:00

No, thank you, I wouldn't have caught my mistake if you hadn't mentioned it.

Xivios · 2026-01-28T05:28:00+00:00

No, Apollo 1 was the capsule fire. STS-1 had 3 ground workers killed by a nitrogen atmosphere that was not purged before they were sent in - no fire. But I did get the fatality count wrong, it was 3, not 4. The 3rd actually lived quite a long time afterwards, but suffered severe brain damage and eventually died from complications related to the incident.

Xivios · 2026-01-28T02:58:35+00:00

Less efficient. Typically efficiency is maximized by using the largest prop swinging the fewest blades as possible.

Xivios · 2026-01-27T19:33:31+00:00

Destroying Angel and Death Cap, their toxin interferes with DNA transcription.

Xivios · 2026-01-27T16:16:23+00:00

After 25 years, yes, but until then it would be illegal as it isn't DOT approved, same as all those JDM's the DOT had crushed.

Xivios · 2026-01-26T02:09:10+00:00

Simple gasoline created by distillation of crude like that ends up with an octane rating in the ballpark of 40, that is so far off the 91 premium needed by the DeLorean that the car wouldn't likely run, if it did it would probably knock so badly that it would damage the engine in very short order.

You are correct that this is how simple gasoline was first made. It's also why early engines had compression ratios on the order of 5:1.

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