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7 Apr 2018, 19:45 (Ref:3813754) | #51 | ||
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Of course but the conversation would start "As driven by Jim Clark". The car was nothing without him.
Likewise the McLaren MP4/4 "as driven by Ayrton Senna". We talk about Ronnie in the Lotus 72D. |
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I, and many of my contemporaries talk as much about Mercedes desmodronic valves as we do Fangio, as much about Cooper rear engines as we do Brabham, as much about Lotus monocoque as we do Clark, as much about Renault turbos as we do Arnoux etc. A very significant number of fans follow F1 for the technical innovation. We may or not be outnumbered, but we are probably the most enduring long term followers. |
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I would love you to write a treatise on Mercedes PU design and compare the features and draw backs to those of Ferrari and Renault! Currently we just have one black box behind smoke and mirrors dominating 2 other black boxes, we don't know the ins and outs of any of the engineering at all! Can you please help us understand the technology and its application? |
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Then go to the forum. The forum section on power trains and controls will get you started. Then check out chassis and aero etc. You will also find that tech heads can get just as passionate in their interchanges as driver fans Try the Honda sub section at present. But you are right about one thing, team secrecy and a strange reluctance to talk about their own achievements stops fans having the level of information and interest that this part of F1 deserves. |
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I can see why people would get exercised about the technical challenges; Chapman's Lotus 88 comes to mind, but ultimately removing the majority of input from the driver, as we have now, defeats the object. |
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desmodronic valves.....is this a punk rock group from Iceland?..
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Lol. They were used in the 300 SLR Mercedaes as raced in Le Mans 1955. Also the W196. Both driven by Fangio and Moss. Also used in the Triumph Dolomite Sprint I believe.
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Indeed.
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Are we permitted to display pornography?
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That's horrible.
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fattest heaviest most over priced engine in F1 history.
That picture is the tombstone of a once great sport! |
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It looks quite good to me
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Interesting question. I hardly ever post on here these days, but I joined when I was probably 15, and my peak F1 interest was probably between 1999-2006
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I see around 1000hp delivered as a driveable package from an ICE, KERS and MGUH at a previously unachievable energy recovery level around 50% I also see the possibility of the continuation of research into power units not tied to an electricity grid. Even more I see research into motoring independent of the march towards Artificial Intelligence becoming so dominant because of that tie to the grid that the driver becomes "road use irrelevant" in the future. Here endeth the rant |
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I joined in 2004 and I am (for a few days still) 39. Oldest memories of F1 are newspaper articles about Johansson and Alboreto having a 1, 2 for Ferrari very late in the 87 season and have always been a Ferrari fan.
I am very torn int erms of what should be the technological pinnacle of racing and the racing pinnacle. Old DTM (late 80s, early 90s) were spectacular with great racing. Group C were spectacular machinery, as is current LMP1 (btw: Porsche just beat Hamilton's laptime at Spa with a modified 919). I love the technical complexity of the current engine regs and I believe downgrading is a wrong move. At the same time I want good racing back without DRS. Only: what is good racing. There were many many races in the last 30 years without good racing even in the haydays of that time. And then there were per year 1 or 2 good races with possibly only 5 good laps that remain in our heads forever and let us say "remember the days". I would venture a guess that Sunday's nailbiter could go down as one of those races as well. All in all: I am not connvinced we are in such a bad spot as many say except for (financial) sustainability. |
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I’m 23, joined the forum in 2009 which means...bloody hell, I’ve been on here since I was 14!!!
I’ve been hooked since being taken to Le Mans aged 4. I immediately came back and rinsed my dad’s VHS collection which included taped Murray Walker-commentated Grand Prix from the late 80s and early 90, lots of WSC reviews, BTCC reviews... My idea of what F1 and motorsport should be is a weird mix. I bizarrely feel like the late ‘80s is ‘my’ era, despite not even being alive at the time. I guess it proves that the 1980s genuinely were awesome, and it’s not rose-tinted spectacles. It really annoys me when old white men feel like they speak for my generation. They talk like we’re social-media obsessed textaholics who can barely look up from our phones for 10 seconds. Motorsport is killing itself in a half-hearted attempt to attract these people that I’m not sure really exist. In the class I teach last year, in year 6 (ages 10-11), I did a Le Mans-themed week in the build up to the race in our morning routine. I was amazed to discover the following Monday that one of the girls who’d been exhibiting some of the most challenging behavior all year had watched 7 hours of coverage over the weekend and could even tell me the winners of LMP2 and GTE-Pro. This wasn’t some middle-class primary school in Motorsport Valley. I teach in one of the most deprived areas of London in a class that is 95% Muslim and 68% don’t speak English as a first language. Do you know why she watched so much? It’s because I made it sound exciting. Do you know how crazy it sounds to a kid that they race cars that look like space ships all day and all night without stopping? No mention of selfies or twitter of Snapchat or any of that crap. I told my kids about it, and they watched it. Sadly, my class is excluded from F1 and most of motorsport. When I was a kid, I could watch F1 and a host of other series on Grandstand on BBC, International Motorsport on ITV, and F3 and GTs on C4 with just the four terrestrial channels. Most of motorsport is completely out of bounds to anyone who can not afford the most expensive television packages. My generation and below, the ‘millenials’, have one thing in common - we have less disposable income than our parents and less spare time to spend it. It’s a crowded world of entertainment out there, and motorsport will be quickly forgotten if it’s expensive to follow it from your living room. |
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Well done for spreading the word to the next 'younger generation'. Like you, I was hooked from an early age, and although my interest is waning a bit nowadays, I am keen, but for the sport to continue, new blood needs to be interested too. |
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Interesting point about Le Mans. In my school on Wandsworth, they would post reports about qualifying on notice boards. Then after the race they posted race reports. Purely because one of the teachers was a fan.
And as to whether it is out of bounds to your students? I come from a council house, one parent family. I've been racing cars for many years. Never say never. |
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Somebody should send G4J's post to Liberty media.
How to make a big sport small, stuff it behind a paywall. Alternative revenue streams, good luck with that! P.S. My motor racing involvement and that of many of my peers started because entry for u15 kids was free, and boy did it catch on, future competitors, engineers, team owners, sponsors, and fans all came from these kids that were allowed in free. |
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