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Say, does my ass look big in this Nomex? :-)
> > > difference would be good 3 - 5sec per lap in F1s favour. On the other
> hand
> > > on the ovals things would be pretty close .... the CART car might even
> win
> > > because it's got longer wheelbase and is wider. All of F1's speed is
> > > attributed to the insane 'power to weight' ratio and the fact that this
> kind
> > > of 'power to weight' allows it to run the insane downforce configuration
> > > that it does (ie. unbelievable braking and cornering speeds). Just for
> > > example - when an F1 car is travelling at 250kph and the driver lifts
> off
> > > the the throttle, the car will be generating 4G of braking force (that's
> 4x
> > > the braking force of the best road cars) ... and that is without him
> > > touching the brake!!!
> > that sounds incredible. not calling you a liar or anything, but do
> > you know this, or is it something you've heard?
> From F1 Racing magazine August 2001: "Taking your foot off the
> accelerator at full speed in F1 means 1.2g of longitudinal deceleration,
> which is the equivalent of a saloon braking heavily."
anyway; I guess most of these 1.2G come from drag?
I believe 4G is 0.5G more than the requirement for what fighter pilots
are supposed to take withouth pressure suits.
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I looked at the F1 rules downloaded from FIA, and the CART rules downloaded
from CART.
F1 minimum weight was listed as 600Kg = 1320lbs.
CART minimum weight varied by track but was 1525-1550lbs.
Norman
> F1 car weights 1/2 of what a CART car weights and produces 2x the
downforce
> that CART car does. Engine-wise the CART cars produce more power but not
> that much more .... BMW in F1 produces 900hp+ and CART car does not
produce
> that much more.
> What that means is that even though in the straighline acceleration the
> difference is not that great, but the F1 car stop in 2x the distance (not
> literaly) that a CART car does and can carry a lot more speed through
> corners (because of the downforce).
> Last of all, currently CART cars reach higher top speeds than F1 cars but
> that has everything to do with the tracks and very little to do with the
> cars. Top speed of an F1 (as well as CART) car is limited by the amount of
> downforce that it's got dialed in. Because F1 cars race on tracks with
> resasonably short straights and a lot of corners - they have
high-downforce
> configurations (though at Hockenheim they still reach 360kph/225mph). On
the
> other hand CART cars on ovals have a low-downforce configuration. If CART
> cars would run on the F1 tracks then they would run high-downforce
> configuration as well and their top speed would be nothing like what they
> reach on the ovals. On the other hand if an F1 car was run on an oval then
> it would be set up with a low-downforce configuration and would run the
high
> speeds that CART cars do.
> To my knowledge, if you put an F1 and CART cars on an roar course then the
> difference would be good 3 - 5sec per lap in F1s favour. On the other hand
> on the ovals things would be pretty close .... the CART car might even win
> because it's got longer wheelbase and is wider. All of F1's speed is
> attributed to the insane 'power to weight' ratio and the fact that this
kind
> of 'power to weight' allows it to run the insane downforce configuration
> that it does (ie. unbelievable braking and cornering speeds). Just for
> example - when an F1 car is travelling at 250kph and the driver lifts off
> the the throttle, the car will be generating 4G of braking force (that's
4x
> the braking force of the best road cars) ... and that is without him
> touching the brake!!!
> ps. F1s raced in Montreal good 10 - 15 years ago.
> regards,
> David Mocnay
> >On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 13:01:00 -0500, "Parke Cochran" <post for address>
> >>I know it's been asked a thousand times but which is faster, CART,
IRL,or
> >>F1 -
> >>I've never seen any data on this. If they were all side-to-side which
> would
> >>win on an:
> >>OVAL (maybe Michigan)
> >>Road Course (say Laguna)
> >We'll see next year when both F1 and CART race at Montreal.
> >Does anybody know if this has happened before, CART and F1 racing on
> >the same circuit at the same time?
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Ah, but they need to use care here. *How* will the course be changed?
One or the other of them will end up with lower lap times as a result,
and to the majority of folks, this will appear to mean that those
cars/drivers/whatever are faster. Because I suspect most people won't
realize that a slightly different course was used.
This is like Sears Point, where I believe NASCAR uses a modified
version compared to everyone else. They're always announcing a "new
track record" during NASCAR qualifying, but I guarantee you there is no
way on Earth that those pig-iron lunks they drive in NASCAR could beat
an Audi R8 around Sears Point (or around any circuit for that matter).
So maybe the track is slightly different, or maybe the announcers just
meant to say a "new (NASCAR) track record", not really being aware that
there is other racing than NASCAR....
Marc
All racing series all have their own track records at each track. If you
want to know an absolute record then look at track record for each series
and take the lowest time.
Yes, this year Nascar started running a shortened Seard point course. It
takes out the "infield section". This is a section that is somewhat
invisible because of the hill the course drives around. The carousel turn is
the corner that goes around the hill, and then it goes back up the dragstrip
and the short and long course meet above the Ss.
Norman
> > Maybe one of the experts here will step in, but I'm fairly certain
there's
> > an agreement that the course layout will be changed slightly at least to
> > prevent this sort of comparison. Crafty devils.
> Ah, but they need to use care here. *How* will the course be changed?
> One or the other of them will end up with lower lap times as a result,
> and to the majority of folks, this will appear to mean that those
> cars/drivers/whatever are faster. Because I suspect most people won't
> realize that a slightly different course was used.
> This is like Sears Point, where I believe NASCAR uses a modified
> version compared to everyone else. They're always announcing a "new
> track record" during NASCAR qualifying, but I guarantee you there is no
> way on Earth that those pig-iron lunks they drive in NASCAR could beat
> an Audi R8 around Sears Point (or around any circuit for that matter).
> So maybe the track is slightly different, or maybe the announcers just
> meant to say a "new (NASCAR) track record", not really being aware that
> there is other racing than NASCAR....
> Marc
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