Formula 1: Building the world’s fastest cars

Re:Formula 1: Building the world’s fastest cars by mikey_p on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @03:01PM (#14036075)

Yeah, the concern is that cars are following too far behind to be in DRS range. That said, one of the main things we heard about over the last few years was that one of the main consequences of close following, was increased tire degradation, which seems to be much less of an issue this year with the new tires.

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Re:Formula 1: Building the world’s fastest cars by manarth on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @03:14PM (#14036195)

Even DRS is a "hack" to fix the difficulty of following.

The challenge is to find a decent set of regulations that allow decent downforce and fast cars, without too much wake disturbance.

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Re:Formula 1: Building the world’s fastest cars by sushisource on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @04:05PM (#14036649)

Honestly I think narrower cars would make a huge difference (and of course they went and widened them this year... SMH). Passing almost exclusively happens on the straights, unless you're Max Verstappen who is singlehandedly keeping races exciting (maybe some Vettel / Ricciardo in there).

Make the cars narrow enough that passing in the corners is feasible and I think it'd make a big difference.

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Re:Formula 1: Building the world’s fastest cars by mikey_p on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @04:48PM (#14037054)

Yeah, it's to where the only exciting races are the wet races. I've only been following F1 for about 3 years now, and Brazil 2016 was hands down the most exciting race I've ever seen.

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Re:Formula 1: Building the world’s fastest cars by k-mcgrady on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @07:26AM (#14041261)

9/10 wet races are awful. They're lots of laps under the SC, rolling starts, and a lot of luck.

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