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Originally Posted by wnut
But the power required to overcome the aerodynamic drag is given by:
 Hence note that the power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of the velocity.
At the end of the day brute force and maximum downforce are king, but the challenge was to try and maintain the lap time with half the down force.
The F1 Lap record for Silverstone is 1:30 odd and the F3 lap record is 1:53. So the question I guess would be what would a 50 kg underweight F3 (F3 min weight 550Kg) with 650 bhp instead of 200 bhp run?
Also better gearbox, tyres and brakes than the F3s.
What do you reckon that would get down to? |
Your post above gets us back to here Oldtony.
Still a very interesting question in my book.