Formula 1: Building the world’s fastest cars

Re:Formula 1: Building the world’s fastest cars by felipemnoa on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @09:10PM (#14038829)

>>Once you are in first, besides a strategical error by your team, you can essentially stay in first for the rest of the race

Knowing nothing about the sport it seams to me that they need to implement some rules that allow for safe passing. Frankly, this is what I would do:

1st-Have a speed limit much lower then the currently max limit.

2nd-Allow for temporary speed boosters. Each car has a limited # of speed boosts that last for a couple of seconds each.

hmmmm... It seems that I'm describing a racing video game. Never mind.

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Re:Formula 1: Building the world’s fastest cars by mikeyouse on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @11:33PM (#14039467)

They already rely on your 2nd point quite a bit between KERS and DRS. The former stores brake energy for a speed boost and the latter reduces drag on a straight to improve top-end speed. They haven't helped much.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy_recovery_syst...

http://www.formula1-dictionary.net/drs_wing_rear_movable.htm...

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