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| quote: | Originally posted by Trance Nutter
reduce downforce will go a long way to improving overtaking. When you're 0.5 seconds behind a car the turbulance coming off the car in front robs your wings of downforce, hence you have no grip. Reduce the downforce, reduce the turbulence should give the car behind effecitvely more grip (effectively because they too are relying on less downforce grip) letting them race closer and overtake easier (in theory)
Heard a few times over the weekend (including from Bernie who proudly said it was his idea) that he wants night races. If they can race at night (he was saying 8pmish) in the Asia/Pacific region it would give better viewing times in Europe and prime-time in those regions. He says it'd be only for Asia and Australia though.
Problem would be improving lighting enough to allow it though. I think its a pretty crappy idea |
But reducing downforce without adding any grip elsewhere (softer tyres, tunnel bottoms etc) will only leave the same gap just at slower speeds. They need to put something back. They need non-turbulent downforce (tunnel bottoms) and slick tyres. The racing in the 80's and early 90's was nice, cut & thrust stuff.
"They're going at it hammer & tongs!!!" - Murray Walker. There hasn't been this kind of excitement and passing duels in a couple years.
They had slicks and more liberal tunnel-bottom/ground effect rules to work within.
Currently, there isn't a way to add grip of any kind without slowing the car down in a straight line. I know that's the #1 trade-off in racing, but with a 19k rev limit, power has been reduced which will likely mean teams are always going to set their cars up for straightline speed. Otherwise, it gives away more advantage than it creates in the corners.
As far as night races go, it would be a fun, one-off gimmick, but that's about it. If they want to do night races, they should use tintops. WTCC or DTM would be great at night...especially DTM with the amount of fire they shoot under braking. The F1 cars would look stupid with lights added whereas a tintop already has spots where they would otherwise go on the road-car equivalent.
F1 is really starting to lose me. I'll still watch, but it's becomming closer to just another spec series.
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and the pace of the BMW's (dark horse this yr)
