|
| Site Partners: | SpotterGuides | Veloce Books |
| Related Sites: | Your Link Here |
|
|
|||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
|
1 Mar 2015, 03:16 (Ref:3510211)
|
#1 | |
|
Rookie
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 59
 |
Kerb hopping at Adelaide
Watching the utes bouncing over the kerbs (curb) around the Adelaide street circuit makes me think they need to move the kerbs to improve the flow of the corners. if they are just going to drive over them, why have them there? Or in that shape? eg the turn onto the main straight they should make the kerb curved to flow onto the wall, rather than have it in the middle of the track. Letting the cars drive over it, smashing their suspension and causing cars to spin out doesn't seem like a good way to cut costs or make it safer.
|
|
|
|
|
1 Mar 2015, 08:50 (Ref:3510297)
|
#2 | |||
|
Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 7,325
|
Quote:
|
|||
|
|
__________________
Ceterum censeo GTE-Am esse delendam.
|
|
1 Mar 2015, 08:59 (Ref:3510307)
|
#3 | ||
 Race Official1% Club
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 46,695
 |
The sight of a heavy V8SC with 4 wheels in the air is actually pretty cool... but its something that isnt great for the cars...
What is the downside to getting rid of the penalties for kerb hopping? Other than they may end up in a wall when things land wrong? |
||
|
|
__________________
Happy David Thexton Day, 21st March 2003 “I am not uncertain” - Dollar Bill Stern, Billions “Fear stimulates my imagination” - Don Draper, Mad Men “Everybody Lies” - Dr Gregory House, House “Trust But Verify” - Commissioner Frank Reagan, Blue Bloods
|
|
1 Mar 2015, 09:00 (Ref:3510308)
|
#4 | |
|
Veteran
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 3,272
|
Is it right that drivers should be allowed to save up their "kerb cheats" at the first chicane for the end of the race?
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 Mar 2015, 09:01 (Ref:3510310)
|
#5 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 16,040
|
Quote:
Was it like that in F1 days? |
||
|
|
|
|
1 Mar 2015, 09:04 (Ref:3510312)
|
#6 | |||
|
Race Official 1% Club
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 46,695
|
Quote:
Hitting those kerbs at the wrong angle puts stress on the car components, suspension, tyres.. and landing position... and other cars... This very same argument happens at the Gold Coast too.. but there seemingly isnt a workable solution? Or is there? |
|||
|
|
__________________
Happy David Thexton Day, 21st March 2003 “I am not uncertain” - Dollar Bill Stern, Billions “Fear stimulates my imagination” - Don Draper, Mad Men “Everybody Lies” - Dr Gregory House, House “Trust But Verify” - Commissioner Frank Reagan, Blue Bloods
|
|
1 Mar 2015, 09:52 (Ref:3510330)
|
#7 | |||
|
Veteran
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 3,219
|
Quote:
|
|||
|
|
|
|
1 Mar 2015, 10:01 (Ref:3510332)
|
#8 | |
|
Veteran
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 3,272
|
Here's what the chicane and Kerbs looked like in 1985 when the track was first used
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c0o697F1g8 |
|
|
|
|
|
1 Mar 2015, 10:07 (Ref:3510335)
|
#9 | |
|
Veteran
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 16,040
|
Thanks for the flashback guys.
It appears similar although i guess some changes |
|
|
|
|
|
1 Mar 2015, 10:07 (Ref:3510336)
|
#10 | |
|
Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 7,396
|
Perhaps moving some walls back would provide enough encouragement not to straightline it?
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 Mar 2015, 10:21 (Ref:3510343)
|
#11 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,837
|
Back in the F1 days the drivers were allowed to get on with it and race.
Race stewards were rarely heard and rarely seen. Of course today the officials think the are much a part of he sport as the participants and the kerb strike nonsense is just one way to get their five minutes of fame. The real nonsense is that you still get a strike for unintentional use, such as Todd Kelly on Saturday, yet you can run four wheels deliberately over any of the other kerbs around the track (especially turn 6 & 7) without penalty. |
||
|
|
__________________
"Your biggest auto race may one day become a Camaro playground", Chris Economaki, Bathurst 1979
|
|
1 Mar 2015, 11:42 (Ref:3510360)
|
#12 | ||
|
Racer
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 469
|
Back in the day didn't Paul Radisich jump the kerbs all day long and ended up destroying a brand new Falcon. Let them go, if the car breaks it's there own fault.
|
||
|
|
|
|
1 Mar 2015, 21:58 (Ref:3510481)
|
#13 | |||
|
Race Official Veteran
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 12,447
|
Quote:
|
|||
|
|
__________________
Bill Bryson: It is no longer permitted to be stupid and slow. You must choose one or the other.
|
|
2 Mar 2015, 06:08 (Ref:3510580)
|
#14 | ||
|
Rookie
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 59
|
Quote:
|
||
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Similar Threads
|
||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| Kerb hopping and corner cutting, I'm confused! | Al Weyman | National & Club Racing | 80 | 8 Apr 2007 18:38 |
| Bowe is hopping mad | Zinger | Australasian Touring Cars. | 31 | 24 Oct 2003 01:03 |
| NZ kerb hopper stopper | mtpanorama | Australasian Touring Cars. | 11 | 12 Nov 2002 04:49 |
| Adelaide R1 - pretty boring - has Adelaide lost its magic?? | Michael H | Australasian Touring Cars. | 58 | 5 Apr 2002 23:47 |
Linear Mode
