F1 2022

[thestaggy]

they need a new type of windtunnel to detect and eliminate porpoising.

Wind tunnels have been intentionally limited by the FIA to cut costs.

- Teams can only run a 60% scale mock-up.
- Teams are limited to running their tests at 180 km/h. EDIT: Of note, this speed is too low to simulate the conditions that would lead to porpoising.

Then there are physical limitations. Due to how low an F1 car rides, if you were to run a full-sized F1 car optimally in a wind tunnel (speeds in excess of 300 km/h), as in real-life, the car will bottom out on the belt (the rolling surface of the wind tunnel), leading to damage to the belt or even worse, catastrophic failure, and you have a belt disintegrating at 300 km/h and an F1 car flung around inside a closed chamber. No team is going to risk destroying a multi-million dollar wind tunnel.

On top this, a wind tunnel is a controlled and sanitised environment.

CFD simulations too are limited a they become too theoretical the finer your margins are.

Real-world testing is and always will be the best way to really learn how your car works, but that has long been limited and capped. In short, even if you gave them unlimited time in a wind tunnel, Merc are pretty fvcked with the limitations. I think @Dave mentioned it previously; they're going to have to treat every race weekend as a test session, absorbing data, and then slowly add/remove bits and pieces based on said data and see what works.

 

[Dave]

Have you heard of this new feature called "cropping"?

It allows a person to remove black bars from screenshot images so they don't look terrible when reused...

 

[Sinbad]

Have you heard of this new feature called "cropping"?

It allows a person to remove black bars from screenshot images so they don't look terrible when reused...

Pfft. Be glad I resized at least.

Also, not my screenshot

 

[Dave]

Pfft. Be glad I resized at least.

Meh, the iPad resizes on the fly so images always fit.

Also, not my screenshot

Now you're just trying to excuse your laziness and poor practices.



On another note, why the feck does MyBB restrict the emojis available to so few when Xenforo allows hundreds and hundreds of them in their software?

 

[OhYeah84]

Time for a new kind of wind tunnel. I remember sawing a doc on the airbag, the software animation showed a small dent while airbag open, they though it was a software glitch, but the sofware animation were correct. Interresting how the cars got all those funny fins and whatever and the current windtunnel and the problem of this jumping like a horse.

Dent in a forehead? Dent in the car? Dent in the bonnet? How do you saw a doc? Why would a wind tunnel work for 1 car, and not another? Do they design wind tunnels for new cars, and if so, what do they do with the old wind tunnels (considering all they do is pump air around a car consistently)...so many questions!

It's also not a case of the cars "horse jumping" as much as they are porpoising (check out the videos of each animal and you're going to see which one they refer too on F1 commentary and SM).

 

[Dave]

Spending cap review could be coming

Ross Brawn confirms imminent review of the Formula 1 budget cap due to inflation

The F1 Commission will review the budget cap but not all of the teams are in favour of an increase this season.

www.planetf1.com

 

[OhYeah84]

Spending cap review could be coming

Ross Brawn confirms imminent review of the Formula 1 budget cap due to inflation

The F1 Commission will review the budget cap but not all of the teams are in favour of an increase this season.

www.planetf1.com

This could be interesting. The cost cap has done one thing and that's to make the cars look similar (except for the Merc with their no pods...) over the years.
An increased cost cap MIGHT lead to a bit more diversity amongst the manufacturers.

 

[Naks]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1519662424948834304

 

[Jean Claude Vaaldamme]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1519662424948834304

Well it seems that he also bumped his Ferrari Roma courtesy car over the weekend

 

[Naks]

Ferrari readying new rear wing for Miami GP: https://www.planetf1.com/news/ferrari-readying-new-rear-wing-miami/

"... Corriere della Sera state that Ferrari will unveil a new rear wing in Miami, designed to reduce drag and thus “gain aerodynamic efficiency”.

For much of the campaign, whenever Red Bull and Ferrari have been close together on the track, most notably in the battles between Verstappen and Leclerc, Red Bull has consistently looked like the team with a faster package in a straight line.

So, the new Ferrari rear wing will look to eat into that particular Red Bull advantage, while the report adds that Ferrari will also make adjustments to the underbody of the F1-75 in a bid to address the bouncing which it has been prone to.

“Because that’s where we lose something in performance and we need to keep working on it,” said Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto.

It turns out though that Miami is only the start of the upgrade work, with Binotto revealing that a “more substantial package of innovations” is coming for the Spanish Grand Prix."

 

[Jean Claude Vaaldamme]

Rumour has it Piastri to replace Latifi before end of season.

 

[FlashSA]

Rumour has it Piastri to replace Latifi before end of season.

Does he bring the same kind of sponsor money to the table? I recall that the Latifi family is loaded.

 

[JerryMungo]

1. Hamilton took him out.
2. Tyre exploded in Baku and caused him to crash into a wall.

2 examples of him "binning it" when it wasn't his fault last year.

1. Bwahahahaha
2. Granted.

There is no way the blame can be squarely laid at Hamilton's feet. He could have avoided both accidents. He could have also lost out badly in #2 if he'd gone off and Hamilton stayed on.

He's the luckiest WC we've seen in ages. Just re-watch Abu Dhabi if you've forgotten.

 

[Tinuva]

1. Bwahahahaha
2. Granted.

There is no way the blame can be squarely laid at Hamilton's feet. He could have avoided both accidents. He could have also lost out badly in #2 if he'd gone off and Hamilton stayed on.

He's the luckiest WC we've seen in ages. Just re-watch Abu Dhabi if you've forgotten.

At least Hamilton got his 1st win for the year.....













to cut down a tree.

 

[JerryMungo]

At least Hamilton got his 1st win for the year.....













to cut down a tree.

Yoh... With neighbours like that...

 

[Hamster]

Rumour has it Piastri to replace Latifi before end of season.

Two different takes:

Bad News for Alpine Wunderkind Piastri as Fernando Alonso & DeVries Threaten to Impede F1 Dreams

Alpine F1 is looking to loan Oscar Piastri to another F1 team cause Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon are staying until 2024.

www.essentiallysports.com

Oscar Piastri Is Closing In On A Deal To Debut With Williams F1

Amidst rumours of a possible mid-season driver change, Williams F1 is reportedly circling Australia's Oscar Piastri for the 2023 season.

www.bosshunting.com.au

 

[JerryMungo]

Two different takes:

Bad News for Alpine Wunderkind Piastri as Fernando Alonso & DeVries Threaten to Impede F1 Dreams

Alpine F1 is looking to loan Oscar Piastri to another F1 team cause Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon are staying until 2024.

www.essentiallysports.com

Oscar Piastri Is Closing In On A Deal To Debut With Williams F1

Amidst rumours of a possible mid-season driver change, Williams F1 is reportedly circling Australia's Oscar Piastri for the 2023 season.

www.bosshunting.com.au

Williams. Where good drivers go to die.

 

[Hamster]

I say fire Ricciardo and give his seat to Piastri since the paperwork is there already.

 

[OhYeah84]

1. Bwahahahaha
2. Granted.

There is no way the blame can be squarely laid at Hamilton's feet. He could have avoided both accidents. He could have also lost out badly in #2 if he'd gone off and Hamilton stayed on.

He's the luckiest WC we've seen in ages. Just re-watch Abu Dhabi if you've forgotten.

I am sure if he checks this thread and sees your comment, he's going to wonder (whilst looking at his WDC trophy): I'd love to see this chump, The Jam, go race an F1 car at literally HALF the speed. Then remember he'd had an exceptionally good season and won.

You Hamilton lot (and there's a bunch of Verstappen whiners too on Twitter) are terrible to come across on SM. Crashstappen this; FRAUDmilton that. FFS move on...more to life than trying to throw your insignificant 2c around.

He won, won more races, had a bit more bad luck...move on.

 

[thestaggy]

Could it be that Father Time, the undefeated champion, has caught Hamilton in the late rounds of his career?

Also the mental strain of last season and losing the way he did could've done some ''damage'' as well.

It happens to the best. Schumacher, Rossi, Vettel all succumbed to Father Time. Then Mika Hakkinen, mentally he just lost it. Granted Mika had a big shunt that triggered his rapid mental decline.