The Official Formula 1 2018 Season Thread
10-16-2018, 10:56 AM
#2501
Re: The Official Formula 1 2018 Season Thread
The hit came on the back straight which is the stretch that follows VIR's "famous" oak tree corner. I thought our day was done after that. The two front tires were flat spotted to the cords. We moved the rears to the front and put on really shitty worn tires on the rear
10-17-2018, 12:00 PM
#2507
Re: The Official Formula 1 2018 Season Thread
Toyota finally let Kobayashi's team win a race.
ALO got clowned for saying the Toyota's were not any faster than the privateers over one lap, and that their advantage was down to superior pit work...
ALO got clowned for saying the Toyota's were not any faster than the privateers over one lap, and that their advantage was down to superior pit work...
10-17-2018, 12:08 PM
#2510
Re: The Official Formula 1 2018 Season Thread
Correction: Alonso was ... SLAMMED!
Andre Lotterer slams Alonso’s ‘joke’ LMP1 comments
Lotterer calls Alonso's claim the LMP1 privateer teams can match Toyota for pace the "joke of the year."
Three-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Andre Lotterer has called Fernando Alonso’s claim the LMP1 privateer teams are equal in pace to Toyota the "joke of the year.”
Toyota swept to its third one-two finish of the FIA World Endurance Championship season at Fuji on Sunday, beating the leading privateer non-hybrid LMP1 car by four laps. Toyota’s perfect record in the WEC this year was only lost due to a technical infringement at Silverstone, where its cars had again finished first and second.
The nature of the LMP1 regulations favour the hybrid manufacturers over the non-hybrid privateer teams such as Rebellion Racing, for whom Lotterer races.
The hybrid-powered manufacturer teams are not as fuel-limited, are allowed to run longer stints, and have quicker refuelling times, making it difficult for the non-hybrid privateers to compete. Toyota won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June by 11 laps, with its smallest margin of victory so far this year being two laps at Spa.
However, Alonso was quoted by Autosport saying last weekend at Fuji how the privateer teams were just as fast as Toyota, whose advantage was instead down to “a race that’s perfectly executed.”
Lotterer quoted Alonso’s comments on Twitter before calling it “joke of the year”, with former Porsche teammates Neel Jani and Earl Bamber also chipping in.
Alonso has long sought to talk up the achievements of Toyota through 2018, claiming earlier this year that its Le Mans win was on “a higher level” to any other in the race’s history due to the depth of the LMP1 field.
Alongside teammates Sebastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima, Alonso sits at the top of the WEC drivers’ championship with a 13-point buffer over the sister Toyota crew.
Lotterer calls Alonso's claim the LMP1 privateer teams can match Toyota for pace the "joke of the year."
Three-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Andre Lotterer has called Fernando Alonso’s claim the LMP1 privateer teams are equal in pace to Toyota the "joke of the year.”
Toyota swept to its third one-two finish of the FIA World Endurance Championship season at Fuji on Sunday, beating the leading privateer non-hybrid LMP1 car by four laps. Toyota’s perfect record in the WEC this year was only lost due to a technical infringement at Silverstone, where its cars had again finished first and second.
The nature of the LMP1 regulations favour the hybrid manufacturers over the non-hybrid privateer teams such as Rebellion Racing, for whom Lotterer races.
The hybrid-powered manufacturer teams are not as fuel-limited, are allowed to run longer stints, and have quicker refuelling times, making it difficult for the non-hybrid privateers to compete. Toyota won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June by 11 laps, with its smallest margin of victory so far this year being two laps at Spa.
However, Alonso was quoted by Autosport saying last weekend at Fuji how the privateer teams were just as fast as Toyota, whose advantage was instead down to “a race that’s perfectly executed.”
Lotterer quoted Alonso’s comments on Twitter before calling it “joke of the year”, with former Porsche teammates Neel Jani and Earl Bamber also chipping in.
Alonso has long sought to talk up the achievements of Toyota through 2018, claiming earlier this year that its Le Mans win was on “a higher level” to any other in the race’s history due to the depth of the LMP1 field.
Alongside teammates Sebastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima, Alonso sits at the top of the WEC drivers’ championship with a 13-point buffer over the sister Toyota crew.
10-17-2018, 12:50 PM
#2511
Honda-Tech Member
Re: The Official Formula 1 2018 Season Thread
December race at VIR confirmed. Back in the Prelude.
Turtle will make it's return this Spring at NJMP.
I don;t think I posted a recap of my 24 hour race at VIR this summer. ... it was a bit of a **** show. Driver #2 rear ended a car at 100+ MPH. Spent 2.5 hours repairing it. (great job team BTW!) I get in and the replacement radiator is some ricer half size aluminum job so temps are going through the roof during my stint, so I'm lifting halfway down the straights - so ppl are BLOWING by me... I'm 30 seconds/lap off the pace, but since we're so far down, I never lost any places - and actually gained 5 spots. After my stint I tell the next driver that the car was sort of getting loose on right handers... some point during his stint he suspects the swaybar or endlink is broken. He pulls in - right rear endlink is snapped. Goes back out. Next guy gets in and says this car handles scary as **** - I LOVE IT. (these two were pro driver/instructors) He pulls in after his stint, the left rear endlink is now broken, and the right rear upper ball joint is toast. Replace that and back out we go. At this point the car handles like a roman chariot - you turn one way and the rear starts slowly wondering the other way. Under hard braking the rear goes left, so you have to steer into it...sounds scary, but it was very predictable and slow - not snappy/uncontrollable. Nothing else bad really happened after that and we managed to finish somewhere around 50th out of 105 cars, and I think we took 5th in class - out of 10 or 12 cars. Lots of cars in the fast class and lots in the slow, but very few in between with us. I think I'm done with 24 hour races. I like the down time in the evening and the chance to sleep instead of taking five 45 min naps
Turtle will make it's return this Spring at NJMP.
I don;t think I posted a recap of my 24 hour race at VIR this summer. ... it was a bit of a **** show. Driver #2 rear ended a car at 100+ MPH. Spent 2.5 hours repairing it. (great job team BTW!) I get in and the replacement radiator is some ricer half size aluminum job so temps are going through the roof during my stint, so I'm lifting halfway down the straights - so ppl are BLOWING by me... I'm 30 seconds/lap off the pace, but since we're so far down, I never lost any places - and actually gained 5 spots. After my stint I tell the next driver that the car was sort of getting loose on right handers... some point during his stint he suspects the swaybar or endlink is broken. He pulls in - right rear endlink is snapped. Goes back out. Next guy gets in and says this car handles scary as **** - I LOVE IT. (these two were pro driver/instructors) He pulls in after his stint, the left rear endlink is now broken, and the right rear upper ball joint is toast. Replace that and back out we go. At this point the car handles like a roman chariot - you turn one way and the rear starts slowly wondering the other way. Under hard braking the rear goes left, so you have to steer into it...sounds scary, but it was very predictable and slow - not snappy/uncontrollable. Nothing else bad really happened after that and we managed to finish somewhere around 50th out of 105 cars, and I think we took 5th in class - out of 10 or 12 cars. Lots of cars in the fast class and lots in the slow, but very few in between with us. I think I'm done with 24 hour races. I like the down time in the evening and the chance to sleep instead of taking five 45 min naps
December should be different.
10-17-2018, 01:21 PM
#2512
What is this crap?
Re: The Official Formula 1 2018 Season Thread
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10-17-2018, 01:26 PM
#2513
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Re: The Official Formula 1 2018 Season Thread
Spent a lot of money to make it worse. First time I've seent it so I guess it's been seent all over the internets.
10-17-2018, 03:27 PM
#2514
Re: The Official Formula 1 2018 Season Thread
Lemme accurately describe how punishing you guys were on the old girl, since sleep deprived Tim is a little fuzzy on the details. First it wasn't the endlink that snapped, but the sway bar arm itself.. That's a 1.5" chunk of aluminum, snapped like a twig. Second, it wasn't a ball joint but an upper control arm mount that was broken on the passenger rear. Fixed that....but who woulda thought the driver's rear had a broken UCA mount too (not this guy). So, we drove ~10 hours with a rear upper arm just pointing whichever direction it felt like at that moment. Good fun. Oh and I've got two, full size, spare radiators now.
December should be different.
10-18-2018, 07:30 AM
#2515
Re: The Official Formula 1 2018 Season Thread
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$22k
N2O purge kit, but not plumbed to the engine. lol.
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N2O purge kit, but not plumbed to the engine. lol.
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