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Post by wilmywood8455 on Oct 10, 2023 7:20:02 GMT -8
It was the effect of the extreme heat upon the drivers which made the news in Qatar but those demands also impact heavily upon the performance of the car. And the problems posed upon each are quite different in an important way – as we will see when we compare Qatar last weekend to Mexico in two races’ time.
Performance creates heat. Converting the potential energy within the fuel into motion in particular creates huge amounts of heat, which needs to be dissipated in order to allow the car to continue to function. The heat will always move from warmer objects to cooler – from the metal of the engine to the liquid in the cooling jackets, from there to the radiators and from there to the external environment – but the hotter the external environment, the slower this process will be. On the other hand, the faster you can get the air to move over the radiators, the more you can speed up the dissipation. Another crucial part of this is the density of the air in the external environment. Air is at its most dense at sea level and less dense at higher altitudes and so has less of a cooling effect there.
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Post by mmi16 on Oct 12, 2023 9:15:49 GMT -8
It was the effect of the extreme heat upon the drivers which made the news in Qatar but those demands also impact heavily upon the performance of the car. And the problems posed upon each are quite different in an important way – as we will see when we compare Qatar last weekend to Mexico in two races’ time.
Performance creates heat. Converting the potential energy within the fuel into motion in particular creates huge amounts of heat, which needs to be dissipated in order to allow the car to continue to function. The heat will always move from warmer objects to cooler – from the metal of the engine to the liquid in the cooling jackets, from there to the radiators and from there to the external environment – but the hotter the external environment, the slower this process will be. On the other hand, the faster you can get the air to move over the radiators, the more you can speed up the dissipation. Another crucial part of this is the density of the air in the external environment. Air is at its most dense at sea level and less dense at higher altitudes and so has less of a cooling effect there.
From all the after Qatar heatstroke symptoms among the drivers - it would look like the engineers made the drivers part of the cars cooling systems, and overloaded the drivers ability to cool the car.
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Post by jmjgt on Oct 13, 2023 3:46:17 GMT -8
^ More like the driver's comfort is secondary to the cars aerodynamic principles.
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Post by mmi16 on Oct 13, 2023 9:05:12 GMT -8
^ More like the driver's comfort is secondary to the cars aerodynamic principles. Truthfully - I think the Engineers view the drivers as a impediment to the effectiveness of their designs and they feature their designs would perform better if they didn't have to make any allowances for the driver.
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Post by jmjgt on Oct 13, 2023 20:48:54 GMT -8
^ More like the driver's comfort is secondary to the cars aerodynamic principles. Truthfully - I think the Engineers view the drivers as a impediment to the effectiveness of their designs and they feature their designs would perform better if they didn't have to make any allowances for the driver. If 5' 3" Yuki had Max's skill they'd clone the shit out of him.
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Post by mmi16 on Oct 14, 2023 4:57:25 GMT -8
Truthfully - I think the Engineers view the drivers as a impediment to the effectiveness of their designs and they feature their designs would perform better if they didn't have to make any allowances for the driver. If 5' 3" Yuki had Max's skill they'd clone the shit out of him. Today's F1 drivers, in size, are much closer to race horse Jockeys than they are to NFL players.
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Post by jmjgt on Oct 14, 2023 6:16:45 GMT -8
If 5' 3" Yuki had Max's skill they'd clone the shit out of him. Today's F1 drivers, in size, are much closer to race horse Jockeys than they are to NFL players. Actually most are average or above in height.
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