- 16 Jan 10, 22:54#179818
Exactly
Bernie is getting worse. But even worse is what was said by a certain Tony Purnell
You mean Nascar
Honestly, our sport is being run by senile muppets
Also, the cars should shoot projectiles at eachother, drop oilslicks, pick up speed boosts (Wait that already happened), go over jumps and get little mini-turbos when they powerslide.
Exactly
Bernie is getting worse. But even worse is what was said by a certain Tony Purnell
Former FIA technical consultant Tony Purnell sees the car being open wheeled, but with bumpers around the wheels, as a safety device to avoid cars touching wheels, which happens occasionally and can launch one of them into the air. He sees the need for bumpers because he believes that the cars will race very closely with each other and the drivers will be used to dicing and bumping into each other, with three or more cars abreast and constant chopping and changing. F1 will be less about doing a perfect qualifying lap and then reeling off a string of fast laps in the race, it will be about pure speed in qualifying and then ultra-high speed “cluster racing”.
This is because F1 will be primarily, perhaps solely, an entertainment and the next two generations, who will be raised on gaming, will want fast and furious action. A successful business has to adapt and give its customers what they want.
To that end Purnell also sees the shape of the car being set by stylists rather than by design engineers. In other words, aerodynamics will have a less important role than today and the cars will be designed to look as sexy as possible, “more of a fashion than a function.” The drivers will be more visible, although still well protected and they will be obviously busier in the cockpit, working various adjustable functions of the car, moveable aerodynamic devices which will allow them to get extremely close to the cars around them without becoming unstable, as they do today.
In this vision the cars will need to be able to go around the track in a gaggle, rather than strung out as they are today and to take corners side by side, because this is what the public will want from them.
You mean Nascar
Honestly, our sport is being run by senile muppets
