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F1 News - Mark Webber: Alonso asked me to join him at Indy 500
Took 5 minutes just to copy and paste link and pic. My computer doesn't have the capability to copy and paste very well. This must be how the McLaren drivers feel because it's frustrating.
my understanding is you do all your combustion development on a single cylinder dyno so you can compare it to your models / simulation. it's impossible to correlate everything once you have more than one chamber igniting and pushing on the crank. fuel, airflow, torque etc.
but that is a completely different effort from integrating and packaging a complete engine.
as they found out.
it's pretty hard to believe that honda could fail to scope and plan this effort so comprehensively - for three years now. this is some serious minor league ****.
Mexico, Baku, China, and Yas Marina are listed as having 1200m straights. That's about 3/4 of a mile or 3900 feet. Road America's straight is about 4300 feet or so. I believe Fuji's straight is one of the longest ever used in F1 at 1475m or 9/10 of a mile.