[chunterer]

Originally Posted by Tourer

Will be interesting to see how many run and where they sit on the "performance pyramid" via lap times.

In them olden days, F5000s were quick enough to make an F1 grid and to sometimes run in combined grids with F1 cars. These cars will be nothing like that quick in relative terms.

The FIA these days has a series of parameters that categories need to fit within and that ends up applying to the circuits they can run on, engine power, tyre / wing sizes etc. Australian circuits are category 3 and the car is built around an F3 tub (also category 3).

That means that the tyre sizes, wing sizes, power output are all restricted & whilst I'd expect them to be quicker than an F3 car, not sure how much quicker or how well balanced they'll be overall - certainly the demo runs at QR had the car looking like a big time understeerer but that may have just been how they were running it on that weekend.

Sandown with its long straights should play to the strengths of the category and no doubt they'll sound good so we'll all have a much better idea on the potential for this category once we see what happens there.

Sounds bit like what we had back along with the A1GP-F3 performance comparisons