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Suggestion: Make cockpits tilt inwards. Sideways-g becomes down-g. Much more pleasurable ride. If the driver is really the limit, and not the added mass for this.
It's probably against the rules though.
Also a fun fact on one of the businessmodels in racing: the team operates like a specialized car-rental service. They do everything, except drive. The driver has to rent the seat for a season, this is where the team makes money.
Then there's 2 or 3 drivers. Of these, one is talented, the others are there for their funds.
> [...] racing machine that only borderline-superhumans can withstand the g's of. Suggestion: Make cockpits tilt inwards. Sideways-g becomes down-g. Much more pleasurable ride. If the driver is really the limit, and not the added mass for this. It's probably against the rules though.
Then the swivel will likely be illegal because it’ll lacks the integrity necessary to be part of the survival cell unless it’s ridiculous (and paragraph 1 is even worse), and its disintegration would have a very high likelihood of killing the pilot, and harming spectators. If you swivel from the outside of the survival cell you now need even more hardware to swivel the entire cell, which means you need more structure to hold the car together (under up to 9G race loads) around the swivel, thus making paragraph 1 yet again worse, as you’ll have yet more space requirements, and weight distribution changes.
Also it’ll likely fail on back to back turns (e.g. Istanbul’s 12, 13, 14 or Spa’s bus stop chicane).
This looks like a “write 500 words about an F1 bolt but with zero research” puff piece
Insane? I've worked in F1, and seeing making this bolt doesn't sound extraordinaire. It's rather normal engineering technology. There are far more interesting, extremely expensive, specialized engineering methods in F1.
Well, I think most bolts don't go through that extensive QA process in general But yeah I agree this one is your run of the mill engineering, if only done for a part that normally doesn't see such testing (maybe in Aerospace and military applications) It seems it's part of the suspension so it would be natural to be a part that has tighter tolerances
Insane? I've worked in F1, and seeing making this bolt doesn't sound extraordinaire. It's rather normal engineering technology. There are far more interesting, extremely expensive, specialized engineering methods in F1.
Don't leave us hanging like that. Would you mind sharing an example?
https://www.brembo.com/en/company/news/20-years-f1-brake-dis...
As a sponsor of Formula 3, I got to visit a Formula 3 / Formula 2 team yesterday and have to say, the racing sport it just insane. The amount of knowledge and effort and money it takes for a team to operate, just below break-even, it's on another level. I think racing must have some of the most passionate people in any industry. Also a fun fact on one of the businessmodels in racing: the team operates like a speciali…
As a sponsor of Formula 3, I got to visit a Formula 3 / Formula 2 team yesterday and have to say, the racing sport it just insane. The amount of knowledge and effort and money it takes for a team to operate, just below break-even, it's on another level. I think racing must have some of the most passionate people in any industry. Also a fun fact on one of the businessmodels in racing: the team operates like a speciali…
This looks like a “write 500 words about an F1 bolt but with zero research” puff piece