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18 Jan 2011, 21:19 (Ref:2817514)
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Hindy was talking on Midweek Motorsport some time after Spa (can't remember when exactly, might even have been the Le Mans preview programme) about some comments that Anthony Davidson had made to someone from RLM off-the-record during the weekend of the 1000km race there last year, and apparently what was said was that Eau Rouge in a LMP1 car pushes a driver into regaining his respect for that corner. It's easily flat in F1 cars, it requires much more bravery and commitment to keep your foot to the floor in a LMP1 car...so it is possible to take it flat, possibly at similar speeds to F1 cars, but it's a LOT more difficult for the driver and the car to do that.
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18 Jan 2011, 22:18 (Ref:2817542)
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Quite. Eau Rouge for the driver of an F1 car is no challenge whatsoever. For the spectator it is magical.
For a LMP1 driver it is more of a challenge because his car isn't as good at it. For a spectator it is magical. In an XJS, for a driver it is magical. Sorry, that is my only experience of it. In comparison it is very slow! Not flat by any means. I know, I spun in it! I don't have an overlay. |
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19 Jan 2011, 03:52 (Ref:2817617)
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Oh it's still a challenge on the drivers in F1, the cars maybe not, but the toll on the drivers I'd say is the same, maybe more in an F1 car, then again maybe it's vice versa.
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20 Jan 2011, 22:41 (Ref:2818554)
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LMP1's had the same lap time around SPA as a GP2 car.
And an LMP1 and an F1 car were both doing 170 mph at Eau Rouge! But the LMP1 driver was the far braver to achieve this! |
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21 Jan 2011, 07:38 (Ref:2818643)
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I used old stop-watch technique to measure time over a distance (measured with google earth- from start of eau rouge to exit at the top) and tv-card to recor videos and to calculate speeds at Eau Rouge.
If I remember right avarage speeds (from star to exit of the corner) for fastest LMP1 cars are around 280 km/h, for GT1 cars around 240 km/h and for GT2 are around 225 km/h. |
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22 Jan 2011, 12:46 (Ref:2819194)
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I just asked a driver!
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