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Routine 888 victories are very tiresome, and the sooner there is more variety the better! Why must the other teams be so incompetent. |
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Complaining after one race is pure sour grapes. People made the same complaint about the Volvo.
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The centre of gravity will matter absolutely nil in terms of vehicle dynamics... HOWEVER, the positioning of centre of mass, and the mass moment of inertia, will make significant differences when lateral loads are applied, and particularly when changing direction etc. |
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I'm surprised all the teams are up in arms about Michael Caruso with his weight advantage and all! /s
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...biggest problem is usually that somebody looking to sound impressive (like a commentator) doesnt think that the more correct terms don't sound technical enough and so they use whatever they like, and the rest of the plebs figure that "it's on tv/facebook therefore it must be true". (we used to joke that "turbulation" sounded far more impressive than mere "turbulence" when discussing fluid dynamics, to the point we wore the lecturer down after 1 & 1/2 semesters, and he accidentally used our pet word. He gave us the rounds of the table for that) |
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It's an oddity there is no mandatory weight, mandatory centre of gravity/mass (and therefore mandatory ballast location) for the bodywork!? Huge oversight IMO. The rules address this effectively for the engine and driver respectively, and the same rules should be in place for the bodywork. That would leave the spaceframe tube work of the COTF which is already the same in weight and COG for everybody. Plus the transaxle which is the same in weight and COG for everybody, and the uprights and brakes which are already the same minimum weight for everybody. Finally the free area for development would be left over: the position of oil coolers, oil tanks, exhausts and other miscellaneous components where teams can have as much fun saving weight and optimising the COG as they like (as long as they as they avoid the prescribed banned exotic materials!) --- with nobody to be disadvantaged just because they have a different base car homologation. Last edited by V8 Fireworks; 4 Mar 2018 at 02:15. |
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Was provisional but couldn't come up with the lap in the shoot out.
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Teams usually put the remainder of the ballast after the engine is at its limit under where the icebox is to even it up with the drivers weight. |
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There is a lot of context to this which the other teams don't care to consider
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So nice best up for TV but the figures seem to be the proof that there is not a parity issue, albeit from only one type of track and two races.
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What a time to be alive if you're a Holden fan, their brand new model fills 5 of the 6 podium spots over the weekend, both pole positions, a front row lockout in race 2, fastest laps in both races and four different Holden teams all sharing the podium spoils.
Really time for the Ford and Nissan teams to work as hard as these Holden teams who have taken just 3 weeks to get their collective heads around this new car. |
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"Pretty much the same" is highly technical engineering speak if I've ever seen it
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