Marussia to miss Austin GP

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Crafty_ said:

Scuffers said:

Yes, with the fuel flow restrictions, power will climb to 10,500Rpm, then not just plateau, but actually fall after this, as with more RPM and the same fuel burn rate, increased pumping/frictional losses will mean less power, at which point they will not want to rev them any more than the gap between gears, which with 8 won't be huge..
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you spent ages telling us how revving past 10,5000 would be pointless.
They regularly use 11-12k RPM, and IIRC we've seen higher than that on occasion.

Before the season you said there would be no increase in torque and the cars wouldn't be harder to drive, despite the teams, engine manufacturers and even pirelli were saying the increase in torque would make it harder. And surprise surprise they were right, drivers can't just go WOT out of a corner now, the cars build speed quicker, the drivers have to actually work the throttle a bit. This isn't opinion, its fact.

Its ok to be wrong sometimes.

please learn to read and understand

what I said was max power is at 10,500, so no reason to rev over that + the rev-drop to the next gear, so, typically that would be ~12,000.

Please get a grip!

[Crafty_]

You've stated "facts" and have been proven wrong and all you do is argue that you are right. Suggest that maybe you get a grip!

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Crafty_ said:

You've stated "facts" and have been proven wrong and all you do is argue that you are right. Suggest that maybe you get a grip!

IRTA - sorry, I miss-understood what you said...


No problem...

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Crafty_ said:

Scuffers said:

REALIST123 said:

Theyve just been discussing this on sky, during P1. According to them, quoting Pat Symonds, they've been running with less than 100kgs of fuel at some tracks, since the very beginning of this year, including Australia.
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Simply don't believe that, especially for the first race of the year, nobody was that brave/confident.

So, you make a claim, are given proof from pretty much the horses mouth and you still don't believe it ?


Is this like your declaration that they wouldn't ever use over 10k RPM, yet at many races we've seen them do exactly that ? Is the TV telemetry not trustworthy either ?

Apparently Symonds said they'd done their calculations and thought running with less fuel was worth a gamble in Melbourne. The gist of the discussion was that it isn't unusual.