Re:Formula 1 e-sports now more exciting than the real thing
by cyberferret on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @06:38AM
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To extrapolate the excellent stats above from @dingaling - Lets compare the 777-300ER with a modern F1 car.
All F1 cars (under 2017 regulations) start a 45-55 lap (2 hour) race with 100Kg of fuel. No more can be added. Given that the cars will probably do another 50 odd laps during the 3 practice sessions and qualifying sprints, then each car will use about 200Kg of fuel per race meet. Lets round it up to 250Kg to allow for idling/testing in the garage, in/out sequences into the pit lane etc.
There were 20 cars competing in the 2017 season (10 teams with 2 cars each), across 20 different tracks:
250 x 20 x 20 = 100000Kg of fuel used over the 2017 season.
The time to fly from London to New York is around 8 hours, so the 777 would burn:
8 x 8500 = 68000Kg
So, a modern airliner would save a little more fuel on a transatlantic one way flight, but we are still around 2/3rds of the entire F1 season's worth of fuel - and that is just ONE plane out of the hundreds that make that flight every single day. (and don't forget that I added about another 25% of fuel load onto the F1 figures to allow for errors, but I don't think many cars will do more than 100 laps on a race weekend - so ACTUAL usage may be 25% LESS than I extrapolated, making them almost equivalent figures for both plane and F1 season).
All F1 cars (under 2017 regulations) start a 45-55 lap (2 hour) race with 100Kg of fuel. No more can be added. Given that the cars will probably do another 50 odd laps during the 3 practice sessions and qualifying sprints, then each car will use about 200Kg of fuel per race meet. Lets round it up to 250Kg to allow for idling/testing in the garage, in/out sequences into the pit lane etc.
There were 20 cars competing in the 2017 season (10 teams with 2 cars each), across 20 different tracks:
250 x 20 x 20 = 100000Kg of fuel used over the 2017 season.
The time to fly from London to New York is around 8 hours, so the 777 would burn:
8 x 8500 = 68000Kg
So, a modern airliner would save a little more fuel on a transatlantic one way flight, but we are still around 2/3rds of the entire F1 season's worth of fuel - and that is just ONE plane out of the hundreds that make that flight every single day. (and don't forget that I added about another 25% of fuel load onto the F1 figures to allow for errors, but I don't think many cars will do more than 100 laps on a race weekend - so ACTUAL usage may be 25% LESS than I extrapolated, making them almost equivalent figures for both plane and F1 season).