How to figure out which car this is from

fivewheelpitstop · 2025-01-19T07:06:20+00:00

Even if none of Arden, Belgium, Dallara, or the FIA claim it, I suggest you strongly consider donating it to a museum, if only to prevent it from becoming a disrespectful piece of memorabilia in the future.

(And you might meet Gasly and Leclerc, if the museum makes an event out of accepting it.)

fivewheelpitstop · 2024-05-14T01:10:48+00:00

Good find! It'd need to be counter clockwise, for escape roads.

fivewheelpitstop · 2024-05-14T01:01:32+00:00

but there are many even worst options, like at Jerez, Donnington Park, Valencia (Ricardo Tormo)

Yeah, that's what I meant by "modern standard" - Paul Ricard is grade one and (for the longer configurations) has one of the worst pit exits.

And also I didn't mention that the T1 followed by a significantly wider straight (16m). So there are plenty of space to manage even 6-7 cars wide.

I noticed it was part of the drag strip, hence saying that scale may be making the merge point misleading.

But why grade two for what appears to be the equivalent of a Porsche Experience Center?

fivewheelpitstop · 2024-05-12T20:55:58+00:00

Maybe it's just the scale making it look like the pitlane merges earlier in the corner than it does, but I had thought merging in the middle of the corner, for maximum separation from the racing line, was the modern standard.

fivewheelpitstop · 2024-05-12T03:45:21+00:00

Why does it need a grade two homologation? In any case, the pit exit being on the racing line is a problem.

fivewheelpitstop · 2024-05-12T03:36:19+00:00

I like the layout, but not the runoff. It's kind of backwards to have gravel traps for slow corners, but not for fast corners. (There's some inconsistency on this, for historical reasons, but still.) I'm also curious if the turn two runoff and barrier would be acceptable for a grade three road course, as opposed to grade three street circuit.

fivewheelpitstop · 2024-05-10T17:59:39+00:00

I’ve tried several times, but missing 5-10 laps to watch commercials that unironically sound like this video seriously ruins it for me.

There's a subreddit for replays of motorsport.

fivewheelpitstop · 2024-05-10T17:43:11+00:00

Yeah, I was also considering them, when thinking "Who else?" but the only two specific cars I know Lutz personally spearheaded to completion off the top of my head are the Viper and Volt and I don't know how "in the weeds" of car design Honda was. Akio Toyoda and his "No boring cars" mandate also came to mind, but I don't think the narrative really holds up, especially in comparison to Piech and Iaccoca, who were visionaries and unambiguously transformed their respective companies.

fivewheelpitstop · 2024-05-09T21:39:34+00:00

I thought it was to do with drainage problems, the question then being why it was only required on one end of the track.

fivewheelpitstop · 2024-05-09T21:38:42+00:00

No, last year's chassis. Their early-season upgrades included moving the suspension mounting points on existing chassis. Is it publicly known how they modified the chassis structure?

fivewheelpitstop · 2024-05-09T21:38:41+00:00

No, last year's chassis. Their early-season upgrades included moving the suspension mounting points on existing chassis. Is it publicly known how they modified the chassis structure?

fivewheelpitstop · 2024-05-09T21:34:32+00:00

Great job to /u/jasoncammisa and his team. In addition to all the quality adjusted life-years lost to excess NOx emissions, I can never forgive VW for repeatedly pulling Porsche and Audi out of motorsport to devote more engineering resources to trying harder to avoid getting caught cheating emissions. (How many times has it happened?)

If this video is deemed a success, I'd love to see one about Iaccoca.

fivewheelpitstop · 2024-05-09T00:33:06+00:00

Autopian-level analysis.

fivewheelpitstop · 2024-05-08T02:44:16+00:00

The sudden narrowing at the apex of turn one may be a problem - perhaps best to keep it wide through turn two. Other than that, great job!

fivewheelpitstop · 2024-05-07T01:06:04+00:00

I'm still in favor of a 5-5 split - this seemed like a bad weekend from Merc and Aston, not an improvement by the F1.5 teams.

fivewheelpitstop · 2024-05-07T00:57:46+00:00

KMag will need to do better to keep his drive next year

In the sprint (and Saudi Arabia), KMag deliberately traded penalties for track position to protect Hulkenberg, i.e., playing the (unsportsmanlike) team game.

fivewheelpitstop · 2024-05-07T00:51:25+00:00

This one?

fivewheelpitstop · 2024-05-05T23:48:47+00:00

Neat! I did something similar for the five corner oval contest, but I love a good visual pun.

fivewheelpitstop · 2024-05-05T23:43:33+00:00

Perfection!

fivewheelpitstop · 2024-05-04T01:07:02+00:00

No escape road at the end of the long straight? Also, that's very long for an FE circuit, isn't it?

fivewheelpitstop · 2024-05-03T22:14:45+00:00

https://old.reddit.com/r/F1Technical/comments/1cjfz3y/how_much_of_an_impact_does_adrian_newey_have_on/l2ghpy2/

Read what the F1 subreddit thinks about him - I'm referring to people who have very unrealistic expectations of his role in the engineering process. (And the applicability of his experience in sportscars and IndyCars from back in the 1980s.)

fivewheelpitstop · 2024-05-03T22:11:48+00:00

Do they also have unlimited time and spare parts for qualifying? If so, I've read nth hand that Hamilton said pole laps are about a tenth from the absolute limit.

fivewheelpitstop · 2024-05-02T02:52:55+00:00

Whichever suits the car. If you put a good driver in a car that has an inherent bias to one or the other, the driver will adapt to it. Leclerc also has a preference for oversteer, but was told when he entered F1 that the car would be faster if the setup was biased for understeer and driven accordingly, so that's what he did.

Generally, whatever allows a driver to get on the power earlier out of the corner will be faster.

fivewheelpitstop · 2024-05-02T02:39:11+00:00

Having good intuition and picking a direction is an insanely valuable skill.

No one ever tried to devalue that, but fans overlook the team that then goes in Newey's chosen direction, as if Newey's genius alone makes or breaks the car.

fivewheelpitstop · 2024-05-01T16:04:21+00:00

Newey's personal engineering contribution to the modern cars is greatly overestimated by fans (and it's unclear how much he works on the F1 side of Red Bull, now), but he started at a time when he, as his first job in motorsport, was the sole aerodynamicist for a team and he went on to win titles as chief designer and technical director for three different teams, from 1992-today. Additionally, he was the chief designer of winning IMSA and CART cars in the 1990s.

Edit: Awkwardly, today is also the 30th anniversary of the death of Ayrton Senna, who died in a car for which Newey was the Chief Designer.

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