Terry wrote:drledford93 wrote: I just wish they'd scrap the rule book and start all over. I wish the rules would be black and white and not allow this "grey area" stuff to continue like it has. The more simple, the better.
Realistically the only solution would be to have no rules, because then there is no grey areas, only things that comply. My idea of no rules is actually three rules
1. Set a maximum total tyre width (any number of tyres within the measure)
2. Cars are not to present a danger to other drivers and the public. This would be administered by a competitors vote and appointed body on behalf of the series organiser and spectators.
3. Races to be run on street circuits and Targa type events. Fewer races at circuits paved like "billiard tables".
.... Otherwise turn up with your 2000+hp whatever and try and get as much grip and speed out of a chassis that the tyres can possibly handle! In theory a complete unknown driver could run away with the series if an innovate design worked particularly well.
Alas probably not in my lifetime. (Can-Am excepted
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The problem with ideas like this, are in fact, with all the technologies that have been developed and banned over the years in F1 combined in one car, there would no human being able to drive such a thing. imagine a modern F1 car and now give the aerodynamicists the possibility for a non flat underbody and skirts and all what he wants, combined with a "qualifier" tyre according to modern tyre technologies. the lateral accelerations would increase to the 2 digit g region. Additionally, imagine now a failure (tyre explosion).
It's nice to think of "what would be if there were no rules..." but in my view, just not possible these days.
To the topic: IF it all works the way we imagine it to do, what impresses me the most, is, how do they know what traction capability is availabe? Yes, they do have measurements in the suspension, they do know the load, travel etc but how exactly do they know how much torque the tyre can handle? i worked with racing tyres and do know how complicated that subject is. and there are so much influences and parameters. if they do not measure the slip, then they have to have a tyre model, which calculates the possible torque. But for a reasonable value, they would have to add camber, toe, tire pressure, tire temperature distribution, ambient temperature, sidewall deflection and slip angle etc. i wonder where they get all that information from, and even where they got the tire model from, and even how fast the computer must be to calculate all that in fractions of a second?
In the article they just state "yeah they measure the suspension movements and loads and so they know how much torque they can apply". Sounds easy, but it isn't. it's not even in the region of being easy, i would say it's more or less near impossible. But IF RB does it really this way: Please give them the physics nobel prize.