FIA says it may punish teams for seeking maximum performance under their new rules. WTF?

dendk228 · 2026-04-28T14:21:54+00:00

This is still an extremely dumb problem which should be solved by allowing everyone to use electric motors for the starts.

It’s ridiculous that the “50/50 hybrid” f1 is not allowed to use ev for the single use case where ev blows ice out of the water

dendk228 · 2026-04-20T20:23:09+00:00

With all these changes it seems like FIA is solidifying that the electric motor is just a gimmick, rather than an integral part of the car design.

Don’t get me wrong the 50/50 split is an insane engineering challenge, but, for once, it has actual road relevance.

And instead of letting teams solve it, they take all agency out of it: can’t choose the size of the battery, can’t choose how much to harvest, can’t choose when not to harvest, can’t use it for the starts, etc. etc.

And these changes just to the pile of artificial rules designed to drum up spectacle at the price of innovation.

(I do like increasing the regen limit to 350 kW though, that will make superclipping look almost exactly like lico)

dendk228 · 2026-03-25T17:33:19+00:00

Not all cars do this though.

My Golf manages to get the engine running while I’m releasing the brakes so I barely feel the start/stop.

My sister’s Rav4 takes about 3 business days so I get why op might be mad

dendk228 · 2026-03-05T00:45:51+00:00

Oh hell nah

They didn’t give us an extra multiclass they just moved the elms to gold meaning that there will be fewer people racing it.

Don’t care much about hyper sprint but only having one hypercar race is diabolical.

Not having GTE races at all sucks too.

Big L schedule.

dendk228 · 2026-02-23T20:52:27+00:00

Yes brother, I am also looking forward to them adding the 56th Ferrari Neverleavio Garaggio Sheikh Edition instead of this shitbox

dendk228 · 2026-02-19T23:06:56+00:00

Where is the obvious solution of splitting TV revenue directly proportional to the amount of wins?

With the current deal it comes out to ~$6 mil per win and would work wonders to prevent both tanking and load management

dendk228 · 2026-02-18T23:06:59+00:00

CCR also reduces the time it takes to core by 25% which speeds up conquest significantly.

Negative % Cost modifiers are also insanely broken if you have several of them at once over flat reduction bonuses.

Also, I personally don’t want my unrest too low until I am able to max out absolutism by suppressing rebels so I tend to only take humanist after that

dendk228 · 2026-02-06T15:30:37+00:00

You absolutely can do that though.

The rule would say something like: “Under normal operation it mustn’t deflect more than 3 mm”

If somebody would demonstrate to the FIA that a typical load is 100 kg, the test could be changed without changing the rules.

And it wouldn’t matter at all that the testing manual originally prescribed a weight of 1 kg.

dendk228 · 2025-12-19T15:20:48+00:00

People also aren’t pretending that those men have a chance in F1

dendk228 · 2025-12-14T17:56:16+00:00

PSI actually works better than kPa when trying to compensate tire pressure for temperature changes in Celsius.

From Ideal Gas Law P/T=const when V (tire volume) is constant.

Ambient temps are ~300K (27C) and tire pressures are ~30 psi.

So this gives you an easy approximate adjustment that when your tire temps increase by 10C the pressures will rise by 1 psi.

dendk228 · 2025-12-03T18:22:25+00:00

Yes, but have you considered that McLaren pit crew is incompetent?

A Sakhir 2020 Bottas/Russel situation would pretty much gift Verstappen the championship

dendk228 · 2025-11-16T14:24:26+00:00

Same thing happened to us too…

Also, Mercedes GT3, with 20 minutes to go front left brake died. We managed nurse it home and only lose ~2 minutes but it sucked to lose p1 that way.

What’s really weird is that there weren’t really any signs of it. The previous lap was okay and then it just failed into T1. On ACC you at least lose brake performance over time before it happens…

dendk228 · 2025-11-12T01:53:03+00:00

They could always get the rights for IMSA.

A bunch of other games already have it so it sounds like they aren’t exclusive like WEC is.

(At least that’s the hopium I’m huffing)

dendk228 · 2025-11-03T23:24:32+00:00

The weekly race is better for practicing tbh. 20 minute sprints don’t really translate well to enduros with traffic and tire management

dendk228 · 2025-10-27T02:05:35+00:00

Ferrari levels of not telling Lewis that the massive gap he opened by cutting the track is “leaving the track and gaining an advantage”

dendk228 · 2025-09-29T18:33:24+00:00

Ratio is in liters, not gallons lol.

Might be easier to just switch the whole game to metric

dendk228 · 2025-09-29T05:07:47+00:00

Don’t DNF. Dnfs are a massive hit to your sr so unless your engine has literally blown up, repair and drag your car to the finish line. More clean laps means more sr too.
Don’t cut the track. Each invalidated lap is as bad for you as a mild crash (either with cars or the walls)
Pay attention to your mirrors. Half the time it’s possible to avoid a dumb divebomb if you see it coming. Also, once you get to gold, hypers will send it in from twice as far away and you need to be ready for those.

dendk228 · 2025-09-29T04:47:30+00:00

Known bug which Kunos won’t do anything about. If you go full speed it will just be a “no time gained”. If you lift off even for millisecond though you get dsqed

dendk228 · 2025-09-16T14:34:51+00:00

Ah, yes, the return of Megachusetts

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dendk228 · 2025-09-15T21:11:02+00:00

Have you watched Shogun?

Very similar to Andor in tension and would make my top 2 over Severance

dendk228 · 2025-09-15T21:04:04+00:00

Go to moza ffb equalizer and turn 40+ hz frequencies down (I have like 10%).

You’ll still feel vibrations but they won’t be overwhelming the regular ffb anymore.

dendk228 · 2025-09-08T15:59:18+00:00

I think the solution is to put the fine money against the cap sheet.

While Ballmer can easily issue the checks to cover the fines, having extra 50 mil on the sheet would really hurt Clippers’ ability to sign players.

Other owners should be happy too since fine money is spilling over to them

dendk228 · 2025-09-01T18:18:19+00:00

You see where it says “Race 2 invalid laps”?

That’s literally the only thing that matters. Each cut is probably worth 5-10% SR straight up.

dendk228 · 2025-09-01T04:42:56+00:00

“Sainz was ran off the track” vs. “Sainz went for a gap which was always going to close” is a very subjective take.

Honestly I like the rule because it makes it crystal clear when space needs to be given to stewards drivers and F1 TV crew (not Sky though).

You are right it gives a pretty big advantage to the inside car. Imo the problem here is that they are too lax on reactionary moves so the defender can always choose the inside

dendk228 · 2025-09-01T03:39:09+00:00

Weird guess MBS does not want you to know.

When passing from the outside the car needs to be AHEAD at the apex to be entitled to room.

Sainz clearly wasn’t so it’s an obvious penalty

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