3'29 sec lap of the Nurburgring anyone??

[Nedzilla]

Yes,I know its a video game but its a giggle to watch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQCOm1KCBT4&fea...

[DanielC4GP]

Hmm I wonder how much and how long he's been sat in front of the TV.

[Pints]

You've been beaten to it
http://pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f...

[Nedzilla]

Pints said:

You've been beaten to it
http://pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f...

HAHA,same post! Thought id put it here too!

[RikkiGTI]

Totally mental! Lol

[Rich_W]

Why haven't Red Bull built this car and gone for a outright lap record at the Ring? Obviously wouldn't be 3mXX but should be somewhere underneath Bellofs record.

[croyde]

Cor! Is that what the latest video games look like? Sure beats my Sega Megadrive.

[freecar]

Rich_W said:

Why haven't Red Bull built this car and gone for a outright lap record at the Ring? Obviously wouldn't be 3mXX but should be somewhere underneath Bellofs record.

The car was built without consideration for the G forces being survivable.

There's no point building a car that'll kill its occupant in a long corner!

[RenesisEvo]

Rich_W said:

Why haven't Red Bull built this car and gone for a outright lap record at the Ring? Obviously wouldn't be 3mXX but should be somewhere underneath Bellofs record.

It would be an immense technical challenge. First, you need to find a way to prevent the extreme G-forces causes problems for the driver e.g. blacking out. One would have to develop tyres capable of handling such large loads over the whole lap. Also the means by which the car produces downforce would have to be well engineered to ensure consistency, ground effect on a very bumpy circuit could be problematic. Then you need to find a driver a) talented b) brave/foolish/stupid enough to do it on the real 'Ring. Getting it wrong at the sort of speeds that car was achieving would result in a hideously enormous accident. To summarise, an awful lot that would need to be done, and possibly just too unsafe.

[rhinochopig]

I couldn't even keep up with what was going on in some of the corners - 230mph through a 90 degree bend is mental

[havoc]

Poor lap...he missed tons of apices!



(As above - nice concept, but practically a little beyond current abilities, and current human beings!)

[Rich_W]

You lot are a bit defeatist!

Of course it would be difficult, but so was scaling Everest. So was building Concorde (or even Eurofighter) And Red Bull love a bit of publicity

[soad]

croyde said:

Cor! Is that what the latest video games look like? Sure beats my Sega Megadrive.

Nice, isn't it?

[AlexiusG55]

freecar said:

The car was built without consideration for the G forces being survivable.

There's no point building a car that'll kill its occupant in a long corner!

Remote control, then. I've often thought that if they ever did a truly unlimited race series again the cars would have to be remotely piloted for this very reason. Of course, it wouldn't be that much fun to watch- it would have to be a time-attack format, as we know from F1 that it is entirely possible with modern aerodynamics to build a car that it's impossible to overtake due to the "dirty air" behind.

[Nedzilla]

AlexiusG55 said:

freecar said:

The car was built without consideration for the G forces being survivable.

There's no point building a car that'll kill its occupant in a long corner!

Remote control, then. I've often thought that if they ever did a truly unlimited race series again the cars would have to be remotely piloted for this very reason. Of course, it wouldn't be that much fun to watch- it would have to be a time-attack format, as we know from F1 that it is entirely possible with modern aerodynamics to build a car that it's impossible to overtake due to the "dirty air" behind.

If someone were to build such a car,surely the g-forces involved would be no more than those experienced by a jet-fighter pilot?
Although racing the things for an hour and a half may be a bit much to ask!

I would love them to build the thing though if only as an engineering exercise just to see what it could really do.Nordschleife would be out of the question but im sure it would be at home on some of the new,wide modern gp circuits.

[RenesisEvo]

Nedzilla said:

If someone were to build such a car,surely the g-forces involved would be no more than those experienced by a jet-fighter pilot?

Jet pilots tend to experience high G-forces vertically. It's simple enough to apply pressure to the legs to stop all the blood pooling there under the forces, starving the brain. In a racing car, the largest g-forces are applied laterally (horizontally) for the most part. I imagine it is not so easy to control blood flow in such scenarios, but I don't really know enough beyond being able to say I think it would be quite difficult. Not impossible, however.

[rhinochopig]

RenesisEvo said:

Nedzilla said:

If someone were to build such a car,surely the g-forces involved would be no more than those experienced by a jet-fighter pilot?

Jet pilots tend to experience high G-forces vertically. It's simple enough to apply pressure to the legs to stop all the blood pooling there under the forces, starving the brain. In a racing car, the largest g-forces are applied laterally (horizontally) for the most part. I imagine it is not so easy to control blood flow in such scenarios, but I don't really know enough beyond being able to say I think it would be quite difficult. Not impossible, however.

You'd need a seat that rolls in the corners (like a bike) so that lateral G loading in corners is felt in the z-axis. You'd probably have to do same too for braking and acceleration. It would be like being sat in one of those muli-axis balls that NASA train astronauts in.