Everything You Need to Know About Formula 1 in One Image
Do you remember a time when a steering wheel was just a steering wheel? I wish I could.
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Yep, everything I need to know about Formula 1.
Too technologically-aided to be a helluva lot of fun.
I love that there's an ACK! Button. I don't know what it actually does but I'll pretend it's what you press when you're overwhelmed and frustrated with your complicated steering wheel.
That's the "I can't get past Massa" button and it's only available on Alonso's car.
Probably stands for Acknowledge and is used so the driver can acknowledge a message from the team without having to take focus off of driving to say gotcha. Its right under the radio button, so that's my guess.
No, I don't think that could possibly be it. I'm going with Devin's idea.
Get your Bill the Cat on.
The VW Phaeton has one. It's called "Reset". Seriously.
I'm looking for the SYN button,but can't find one. TCP/IP fail!
Go and syn no more?
It reads a Cathy strip over the headset.
It's for when you just can't get down with the funk.
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As Bernie himself has said
"F1 needs two things Ferrari and that sound"
Go look it up
The red dial at the top lets you choose between twelve different vicars.
DRINK!
On the one hand I say to myself " ah look at all that technology making things boring in F-1" on the other hand I also say to myself "look at the lack of tech in Nascar, it's about time they wen't fuel injection and cought up with the rest of the world"
I just can't help but feel like there must be a happy medium somewhere, something like group b where the power is plentiful and the suspensions and drivetrains are just slightly less then adaquate. Perhaps I'm just too picky, or perhaps I should just take more time to enjoy aussie V-8 supercars.
I still think Formula SAE has the right idea for a creative race series. Pick one or two things limit those and add a few basic safety regs. Is the case of FSAE it is less than 610cc engine breathing through a 20mm or less throttle (at least it was for turbocharged gas cars 15-20 years ago).
I would love to see a major race series adopt rules along those lines. Maybe even something really crazy like: you can run any engine and aero package you want, but you must race on these rock hard 6" wide spec tires or a similar really tiny intake restriction and everything else wide open.
Those are still accurate as of two years ago, at least, and I doubt they've changed since. I particularly liked some of the things in the rule book that make you wonder whether the rules committee was just trying to be very thorough, or whether something happened that actually necessitated that rule. For example, the rule that, paraphrased, stated that to be eligible to compete, a car would have to have four wheels NOT in an inline layout.
My idea for a racing series is as follows:
Basically no limits on the car itself
One-way telemetry (i.e. no driving/tweaking from the pits)
Fixed fuel quantity for each race.
That last one forces cars to get lighter and use clever aero tweaks. Sure, you can run a twin-turbo 8L V12 if you want…provided you can finish the race.
The hope is it would drive engine technology towards something that's useful for the street, and open up a lot of variety.
My dream racing series would be a homologation series with the only limitation being the MSRP. Mostly because this would make race cars attainable.
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yesterday I spent quite some time looking at some videos about this:
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imho, the F1 needs cars that are less fragile, something (rules, prizes, whatever) to make the drivers take more risks… it seems like actual F1 cars (which i love anyway) only work if perfectly driven on the racing lines.
the DRS has given more overtakings, but I can't really like it. it don't like it that it can only be used by the one behind… I know it makes no sense if the one in front also has it, but it seems like an unfair advantage. if you found a hole in the rules and made something special, great, but it's not the case.
sorry for the rant… love actual F1, but I have never seen something prettier than a 312 T4
N BUTTON.
That is all.
If this button were on a Deutschland car I'd quip that its the opposite of the "acknowledge" button.
"NEIN NEIN NEIN!!!!!"
Now I know why F1 cars are so great: they have knobs that go up to 12.
IMO F1 needs fewer buttons, less downforce, and a shitload more power. And tyres which don't grain so damn much it makes driving outside the racing line nearly impossible.
What will actually happen is probably even more buttons, more grip and less power. And more gizmos.
I'm probably in the minority but i don't care too much about the actual results of a race, i'm more interested in good racing. I don't care if the battle is for 14th position if the racing's good..
There's a part of me that definitely pines for simpler times where anyone could fix his car with a socket set and some zip ties, and that's why my cars are all old. But in Formula 1 I'm totally content to let technology have the show. F1 cars stand with fighter jets as the most fabulous and beautiful pieces of machinery. The races, eh. I only ever followed one F1 season, and I wan't interested enough to keep up with it. But the cars are amazing.
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