F1 2010 - FUELING!
Discussion
Marc W said:
No becuase they don't have to watch your fuel, they start the race with enough fuel to do the race at racing speeds. It certainly didn't used to reduce agression in the many years with no refuelling before 1994.
If anything it's going to make it a bit more interesting as the car characteristics change through the race. Heavy to start off and ending up at a gnats whisker over 620kg. thunderbelmont said:
Derrr. No refuelling means NO REFUELLING!
(1)You start with a full tank (200L?)
(2)You finish with a nearly empty one.
(3)If you run out before the chequered flag - tough. DNF. Learn from it.
According to this chaps quote (3), drivers may not have enough fuel to finish?(1)You start with a full tank (200L?)
(2)You finish with a nearly empty one.
(3)If you run out before the chequered flag - tough. DNF. Learn from it.
Park'O said:
thunderbelmont said:
Derrr. No refuelling means NO REFUELLING!
(1)You start with a full tank (200L?)
(2)You finish with a nearly empty one.
(3)If you run out before the chequered flag - tough. DNF. Learn from it.
According to this chaps quote (3), drivers may not have enough fuel to finish?(1)You start with a full tank (200L?)
(2)You finish with a nearly empty one.
(3)If you run out before the chequered flag - tough. DNF. Learn from it.
Park'O said:
johnfelstead said:
Park'O said:
Right ok!! We all expecting less aggression then on track?
No.Thanks
The problem we have is that we've been force fed with refuelled F1 since 1994. Before that, especially in the turbo years, we had cars running out of fuel because drivers turned up the wick for too long when either chasing, or trying to run away from, other cars.
I remember Mansell pushing his car over the finish line because it ran out of juice on the last lap.
It was a common event.
Refuelling took the driver's skill of managing/balancing consumption over performance and threw it in the bin. Prost was probably the best in that area - why he was always known as the Professor.
I say, let's have 1.5L turbo's again. Whooo yeah! 1200hp Megatron's! (A Porsche designed 4 pot lump), or those lurvely V6 Honda's or V6's Ferrari's. That also requires drivers with big cahuna's and their best thinking heads on. When Formula ONE was number ONE.
2.4L V8's Pah!
I remember Mansell pushing his car over the finish line because it ran out of juice on the last lap.
It was a common event.
Refuelling took the driver's skill of managing/balancing consumption over performance and threw it in the bin. Prost was probably the best in that area - why he was always known as the Professor.
I say, let's have 1.5L turbo's again. Whooo yeah! 1200hp Megatron's! (A Porsche designed 4 pot lump), or those lurvely V6 Honda's or V6's Ferrari's. That also requires drivers with big cahuna's and their best thinking heads on. When Formula ONE was number ONE.
2.4L V8's Pah!
Porsche designed that 4-pot lump? I think their Munich neighbour will have an objection to that!
Anyway to find out what will happen next year, just take the opposite of what the FIA are promising. This is on the long established trend that when the FIA promise something in their fairy land will happen, in real racing terms the exact opposite happens.
Anyway to find out what will happen next year, just take the opposite of what the FIA are promising. This is on the long established trend that when the FIA promise something in their fairy land will happen, in real racing terms the exact opposite happens.
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