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That kicked so much ass 
Nascar is the DJ Sammy of the racing/engineering world.
And once the KERS system comes into full effect... |
sometimes you really do talk some shit...
im no nascar enthusiast but to make that comparison just proves you dont know much about nascar and its rules and regulations.
if anything nascar is a much easier to relate to sport than f1, which is so extravagant and most of its fanbase so snobby it makes me want to vomit.
don't shit on nascar when you dont know much about the spot
oh and..
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Ferrari’s vice president Piero Ferrari feels that Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems will not only increase overall cost for the teams but also will not improve the racing.
The KERS system, slated for a 2009 introduction, will allow drivers to draw 60kW of energy from the car which can then be used in a Champ Car push to pass manner.
Ferrari, however, feels that the system will fail to increase overtaking while increasing the cost to teams. He also used the N word, which wouldn’t win him a lot of fans on this board, for sure.
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We should reflect on many of the technical and sporting decisions taken in F1 lately.
Engines were frozen with the result that all of them now run at 19,000 revolutions, so there’s no difference in power nor revs, and therefore there’s no way you can take advantage of a possible overrevving to try to overtake.
We should have done something similar to what NASCAR has done: to set some limits in the regulations, while allowing for researching and re-designing. The way the regulations are right now, we can’t re-design a single part to improve it. It’s excessive. Ferrari have great engine guys twiddling their thumbs.
By contrast, they make us spend time and money to design the KERS, for which we can’t evaluate the costs precisely because it’s a new technology.
It’s also based on knowledge unknown to traditional engine guys, like high-capacity batteries and high-performance electrical engines, for which you need specialized engineers from outside the motoring world.
To acquire that know-how will cause high levels of spending over the years, it’s not the best solution to reduce costs.
Engine recovery is fine, but not this way. Too many different systems to recover energy have been permitted. They need to be limited, otherwise costs could go sky-high, with the risk of having to cut drastically on other areas to limit spending, as was done with engines, revs, and electronics.
This way we risk to transform an F1 car into a GP2 car, and that must not happen. |
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