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2 Mar 2019, 20:22 (Ref:3887851) | #1 | ||
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Mr Waters has a right old whinge on the teev yesterday, and Here about the new-for-2019 coolsuit temperature monitoring forcing him to the pits for repairs.
It makes absolute sense that Supercar did this, to assure the wellness & safety of the driver as their core temperature climbs to unsafe levels, and equally you can understand and Waters’ frustration at being the first to be called in and disadvantaged for what is fundamentally a team preparation error. The question for me is whether Supercar has gone far enough, if the maximum temperatures selected are actually too high, or whether additional measures of temperature should also be included. If you saw Mr Davison exit his 23Red car at the end of the race, he must have onboarded half a dozen bottles of ice cold water, and complained of blurred vision, and a lack of concentration during his last stint. Mr Owen has a similar ‘away with the pixies’ moment back in the Autobarn RNR/ARCA day’s from heat related issues. The simple answer is to not run in the heat, which makes no sense.. There must be something that could be done to reduce ambient cabin temperatures, and protect the driver from the massive heat infusion from driving the cars, in high or low ambient temperatures. |
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i disagree with him that it should be a driver choice. the fact that davison continued with blurred vision and struggled to concentrate says that drivers aren't able to make the decision themselves in the heat (no pun) of competition. but otoh, everyone copes with heat differently and has different thresholds.
i assume the cars don't have air conditioning? if not, then maybe that's something that needs to be mandated for future seasons. otherwise they have to look seriously at a maximum temperature/humidity combination. |
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As above - air conditioning!!!!
Talk of hybrid car this, turbo car that, but the current cars don't even have aircon |
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So, is the proposed 'Summer Series' really a good idea then?
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Surely there could be a refrigerant-driven cool suit system to replace the problematic dry ice ones we have now? Also massively increase airflow through the cabin for hot races; design it in, not just take a window out. A filtered, cooled air system like Baja racers use would help, there were comments about the heat of the air they breathe.
Also after seeing Rick Kelly's piece showing the underside of the car, work could be done on heat insulation to avoid burning feet too. Did Davison have a cool suit failure, or not get picked up by the new monitoring system? |
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what exactly is the monitoring system they use at the moment?
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But I agree that more could be done to improve on it. |
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It's not compulsory for drivers to wear cool suits is it? I recall Lowndes saying he and Richo didn't use them in the Supercheap 1000 last year?
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Mr Golding mentioned overnight that he was cramping up at the end of his stint as well, hydration and temperature the likely causes.
A driver is unlikely to take themselves out of the game, as we saw with Mr Reynolds last year at Bathurst. |
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It's compulsory if the temperature is forecast to be above a certain level. Can't remember what the temperature has to be but I think it's somewhere around 32°C
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Didn't Paul Morris develop a refrigerant AC system many years ago?
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Couldn't dry ice be replaced with a supremely cold glycol-type product? I'm thinking in the same context as vodka slushy-type blend.
Also, could a fan unit be added to the cars that had housing around it for dry ice to be put in and topped up during each pit stop? This would be done in such a way that the dry ice is sealed in the box in the event of a crash. |
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Teams are always reluctant to add extra tasks to put stops. I suppose you could circumvent that with minimum pitstop deltas, but that wouldn't go down well with the purists.
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I would be surprised if AC for a driver cool suit and helmet air supply used more than 2 horsepower. The comments by Tim Edwards in the story below describe just how finicky the dry ice system is - really should replace it with a refrigerated system similar to a beer tap chiller. (before anybody else gets in, then if the car retires the driver will be able to have a cold one while waiting for the tow truck...) https://www.supercars.com/news/champ...it-knife-edge/ edit: they already add dry ice to the systems at pit stops - again a potential failure point if too much is added |
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Or more logically, the teams could be mandated to build a cool cell around their drivers, including their feet, completely insulated from the floor of the car (and the hot exhaust underneath)... crank up minimum weight by 20kg to cover the additional material... |
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the thing is, whilst driver cool suits are a good idea, it doesn’t address the temperature of the air they have to breathe in.
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The major issue in Adelaide seemed to be burning feet, lower cockpit areas without airflow to keep the soles cool. The coolsuit does not go down that far anyway
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The teams do vent air to the footwell, but that can only achieve so much. Better to insulate the engine compartment side of the firewall, for a starting point why not try the turbo heat shield material, with a stand-off mount and an air gap behind it?
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