Notizie varie 2014

[Ferrarista 1713]

 

Gli stipendi della F1

 

[Ruberekus 12261]

mi sembrano un po' cifre a caso, fra l'altro cos'è 'sto Business Book GP ?

[Ferrarista 1713]

[The King of Spa 637]

Interessante thread in inglese.

 

http://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=425076&f=1

 

il post dove c'è la copertina di autosport

[joseki 1272]

Cose abbastanza visibili per chi sa guardare la F1, penso che fosse evidente che Vettel ha bisogno di tanto grip, Hamilton corre sentendo ogni secondo la macchina e Alonso è capace di martellare le stesse traiettorie continuamente.

[The King of Spa 637]

Track limits are not what they used to be

By: Kelvin Hassell, Special contributor

Posted: 9 minutes ago

Track limits used to be forbidden grounds that would have disastrous consequences for any driver bold enough to test them, but not anymore.

The track limits are easy to spot on a NASCAR oval (unless you’re Kyle Larson and the oval is Eldora); they are usually signified by a rather ominous looking wall. Drivers know that everything the wall is out of bounds obviously. Track limits are fairly easy to spot in circuit racing too. The racing surface is the area between the two white lines that circumnavigate the perimeter and interior of the asphalt circuit. This is a fact you may be surprised to know if you are a regular observer of the British Touring Car Championship, where track limits seem to be considered advisory despite the governing bodies insistence that they are not.

The heroes vs. those who just race cars

Drivers have always used the curbs or snuck out onto a bit of run-off in the quest for a faster lap time. It was always a bit iffy. If a driver succeeded, he or she was a hero. If a driver failed, then they would arrive at the awaiting gravel trap ready to wave a fist before taking the walk of shame back to the motorhome lot.

But now it seems circuit owners and the FIA have decided to reward these efforts by fitting lower, suspension friendly curbs and paving any area that a race car may accidently-on-purpose stray on to. When exactly did the Safety Elf decide that this was necessary? Gravel traps and grass have long been the natural predator of the exploratory fast lap. Knowing that the potential end to your weekends efforts lies just beyond that white line on the outside of the Parabolica has, for years been one of those invisible forces that separates racing heroes from the people that just drive race cars. Now all the drivers have been granted a faux immortality. Drivers can go into Parabolica without worrying about ending their race. Everybody can be a racing hero because the margin for error has been expanded by approximately another track width.

Where's the challenge?

If race tracks don’t want drivers to exceed the track limits, they shouldn’t put things there that encourage drivers to drive on them. For the UK, tracks are adopting a camera system built into the curbs to spot the curb hopping hooligans trying to gain an advantage. Seems like a lot of bureaucracy to me. Spot the driver that did the curb hoping, which at Touring Car meetings is pretty much everyone on the entry list, and then discipline them to the confusion of the on-looking crowd. What they should have fitted to the curbs is a sprinkler system. Keep the curbs and their glossy painted surfaces wet for the entirety of the race. That should keep drivers off them.

Ok, maybe not. But if I had a race track and I didn’t want someone driving over my curbs, I’d move my curbs somewhere away from the inside of corners.

On the outside of corners I’m a big fan of grass followed by a gravel trap. Grass gets the car away from the race track and gravel stops it before it hits the fence. Job done. At the time of writing this, they have not finished the modifications to Monza’s most notorious turn. I hope they don’t intend to totally remove the gravel trap from the Parabolica. Health and safety, eh?

What happens when you come out of Ascari and go hammering down the back stretch only to find the middle pedal goes to the floor? Surely even the FIA are not that silly

 

Modificato 20 Agosto, 2014 da The King of Spa

[NeoN 257]

primo giro assoluto a Sochi

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88b7VqEeisc

 

 

Seb Vettel at Sochi today: "A good mix of high speed corners and technical sections. It’s going to be a huge challenge in an F1 car"

 

Modificato 25 Agosto, 2014 da NeoN

[Ferrarista 1713]

Non so perchè, ma mi sa di "già visto". Ho come l'impressione che sia semplicemente un collage di curve (di m***a) prese da altri circuiti moderni.

[Beyond 6905]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/115578

 

dopo 24 anni whitmarsh lascia la mclaren

[Ferrarista 1713]

Dopo la sostituzione con Boullier, effettivamente c'era da aspettarselo.

[mircocatta 1077]

Sochi=valencia 2.0

 

speriamo che finisca come è finita quell'altra pista

[White Star 2803]

Sono appena rientrato dal Rotterdam City Racing, dove il giovane Verstappen ha sfasciato il suo primo alettone al volante di una F1.
Problemi per Raikkonen che è tornato ai box con la sua F60 al traino

 

http://www.gptoday.com/full_story/view/498819/Verstappen_crashes_on_F1_demo_run/

 

Gran bello spettacolo e tanta gnocca, buono che usino le auto degli scorsi anni, non sarei andato a vedere gli eco-trattori turbo.

[ema00 859]

spero fosse ubriaco O.O

[Ruberekus 12261]

menomale che “Il mio stile è come quello di Alonso”

 

[sterla 849]

eh bhe perchè le f1 girano molto a 30 all'ora...

[joseki 1272]

Il problema di iniziare così giovani è questo, al primo errore stupido (perchè si tratta di una minchiata eh, pure i migliori ci possono cascare) vieni coinvolto in una shitstorm epocale.

[F.126ck 2545]

cosa dicono i media? che è troppo giovane perchè si è schiantato durante un burnout ?

[White Star 2803]

Anche il buon Raikkonen ha avuto bisogno di una spinta per girarsi lì, lo spazio non era molto.

I giornali inglesi ovviamente sottolineano l'errore, quelli olandesi non ci fanno caso. Giusto così, direi...

[Schumi81 201]

Fondamentalmente mi dispiace per lui, dev'esser stato un brutto colpo di fronte a tutta quella gente che subito inizia a sghignazzare...chiaro che l'episodio in sè vuol dire il nulla assoluto, ricordiamoci che questo qui ha 16 anni e io alla sua età guidavo a malapena il mio cinquantino.

[Ruberekus 12261]