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Does Mansell’s collection include the McLaren that he was too fat to fit into?
I remember someone saying he should take his wallet out of his overalls and he would have fitted. It'll be even fatter after selling these! The Williams is the car he used to give Senna a lift, which probably adds a zero.
I was one of the track invaders, about twenty feet from the pit entrance when they rolled in at the end of the race that day. 🙂
Ferrari porpoising quite badly even on this smooth track. Merc as well but not quite as bad. Red Bull looks super stable and no bouncing. They’re gonna walk this.. well as long as they don’t both break down again 😬
And just like that LeClerc tops the sheet with next to no porpoising!
what you say makes sense, but if it wasn’t for reduced drag, do you know why they reduced the side pods to such a degree?
Because it makes the floor produce more downforce due to faster airflow on top of it.
I'm of the opinion that the mercedes generates the most floor downforce of any of the 2022 cars, but I think they may have overdone it as their car is the worst for porpoising which appears to be an issue that none of the teams anticipated.
I think if they get the porpoising/straight line issues resolved without compromising the floor downforce too much their car will rival ferrari/red bull and in some cases could be faster, especially on low-mid speed corners.
There’s zero chance that the aerodynamicists will be spending any time looking at other teams designs.
i’d disagree with this considering the lengths teams go to to conceal the details of their cars.
I’m of the opinion that the mercedes generates the most floor downforce of any of the 2022 cars, but I think they may have overdone it as their car is the worst for porpoising which appears to be an issue that none of the teams anticipated.
Porpoising is caused by the ground effect sucking the car to the ground. Once the floor is close enough to the ground the airflow stalls and the downforce stops so the car bounces up as the downforce is no longer compressing the suspension. This then repeats as downforce builds again. This effect is really difficult to simulate in the wind tunnel which is why most team struggled with it initially.
So yes you are probably right, the Merc floor makes so much downforce they are really struggling to control the suspension and ride height.
Because it makes the floor produce more downforce due to faster airflow on top of it.
Wouldn't you want the faster flow under the car, and slower over the top...? Be interested to know how much interaction there is between the two - in the old days they had skirts, of course, so what happened with flow over the pods didn't make much difference to downforce. It's all probably moved on a bit since then! 🙂
Wouldn’t you want the faster flow under the car, and slower over the top…? Be interested to know how much interaction there is between the two
This guy seems to know his shit. The thing with F1 cars is that every part of the car interacts with the other parts in complex ways. There will never be a simple answer, it will always be finding some compromise between conflicting demands.
Big explosion and fire at an oil depot not far from the circuit. Looks pretty serious but no indication the weekend won’t go ahead.
Apparently that’s the burning Max could smell…
Well it is wrong to have a race in a country that’s at war . . . unless they are very rich, of course
Was going to say something similar - funny how we don’t go to race in Russia because they’re at war, but conveniently forget that Saudi have been at war for years. Double standards yet again…
But it's OK as long as you mention it at a press conference.
Race looking very dodgy now according to Twitter...
Drivers are currently in a meeting about the race this weekend.
Holy shit if the ‘civilised’** world can’t reflect on itself in March 2022 then what hope has it ever got? Here’s hoping a big enough light finally shines on sports-washing.
** yeah I know it’s subjective
Unbelievable. Race, never go back. Should never have been there in the first place, a stain on the sports reputation.
Conscience, morals, money.
F1 is expensive and willing to whore itself out to the deepest wallets. It'll be back in Russia with a renegotiated deal before the smoke clears.
To be clear all big business will do the same but as long as we get cheap stuff and sports it's ok.
Is there any way of interpreting that tweet other than "Nobody's going anywhere until after the chequered flag - understand? Now you all be good boys and don't do anything silly."
F1 was always pretty grim (see sanctions-busting to continue racing in Apartheid South Africa for example), but the situation it has put itself in in Saudi is pretty funny. That kind of sports-washing hostage situation is exactly why you should avoid staging major sporting events in murderous despots' playgrounds. I would hope this might trigger a reappraisal at the FIA of the kind of regimes it chooses to endorse with its events, but I'm not optimistic about those motorsport blazers' values.
Seems like a Mercedes engine is not the one to have this year! All at the bottom end of the time sheets. 😳
Seems like a Mercedes engine is not the one to have this year! All at the bottom end of the time sheets.
McLaren on the phone back to Renault?
Well ****-a-duck! Hamilton out in Q1!
🙂
But Russell P4? Not all the car?
The whole Mercedes situation is weird (engines and car) - seems like complacency set it
not good to see that HASS car in that condition
Good to hear Mick is ok. It was crazy seeing the back half of the car fall off like that!
I would hope this might trigger a reappraisal at the FIA of the kind of regimes it chooses to endorse with its events
Given that the head of the FIA is Mohammed ben Suyalem of Dubai, I doubt it very much indeed
No external injuries but boy that is gonna sting in the morning.
170mph crash into a wall, testament to the construction of F1 cars these days
the head of the FIA is Mohammed ben Suyalem of Dubai
I'm gonna just quote this without any context.
Merc to take a whole new PU for Lewis? Would only drop 3 places and then he has another one in the pool early on in the season. Seems to make sense
For once I’m happy to see a Red Bull on pole - go Checo!!! 😀
Wow. Thrilled for Prez.
Max will have a frowny face on! 🤣
haha, turns out that I don't mind when a Red Bull gets to pole after all 😉
Glad for Perez!
Merc to take a whole new PU for Lewis? Would only drop 3 places and then he has another one in the pool early on in the season. Seems to make sense
Surely this only applies when they’ve used up the supply and still need more? So, at the end of the season. If he took one now he’s just get the new parts, because he’s has allocations of everything left.
Although I'm trying to avoid giving my attention to this particular race, I did see a tweet with footage of Mick's accident, it looked horrific. Mick's mum must've been in bits, the poor woman.
The German Sky TV crew have all left after yesterday's drone attack and it's obvious that the majority of the drivers don't want to be there either.
Jeddah and Saudi Arabia aren't yet ready for F1.
haha, turns out that I don’t mind when a Red Bull gets to pole after all 😉
Me too. Hoping he can convert it to a win.
Famous for poor qualifying and great recovery drives, let's see what he can with a good start
With the implied threats of difficulty for the drivers (and perhaps more concern about lower level members of the teams) leaving the country if they don't race, I wonder if a lot more will be said once everyone is out and safe.
Surely this only applies when they’ve used up the supply and still need more? So, at the end of the season. If he took one now he’s just get the new parts, because he’s has allocations of everything left.
That’s right, Alonso has swapped PU’s this race for the prior one to be fixed.
I too thought about The Schumacher family yesterday,m that must have been awful to see. With all things considered as a parent I might be imploring him not to return.
News this morning is that Hamiltons issue is an over enthusiastic setup which he demanded himself, and Merc are considering a pit lane start to allow a reversion to a P2/3 setup.
With the implied threats of difficulty for the drivers (and perhaps more concern about lower level members of the teams) leaving the country if they don’t race, I wonder if a lot more will be said once everyone is out and safe.
I wonder if the retirement rate will be higher than normal.