After every rule change since the first appearance of the Audi R10, LMP1 were always faster than what the ACO had targeted. The problem here is that the ACO went and used 2006 pace as target, while keeping the LMP2s, which in normal configuration were seconds faster than that. When the plan was announced, many people…

There is indeed prie at stake, but it’s got less to do with the ACO vs IMSA discussion, but with the fact that the ACO refuses to accept that their target laptimes for the new regulations were absolutely stupid. Everyone saw this coming two years ago, but the ACO still refused to adjust the rules. With LMDh the situati…

It’s the one at the top of this article.

And then Jeep went and put the Trackhawk into production, so I don’t think this car has any credible claim to be the dumbest.

It could be that the pilot is at fault, but the SCA would obviously try to blame it on the ship, the captain or the helmsman(unless Suez uses canal steerers), and Evergreen’s lawyers will surely try to prove that it was indeed the pilot’s fault.

Well, the first one was clearly the not-so-ever given

Amongst the thousands of pictures of the Ever Given, Mercedes somehow chose one of the previous one that was scrapped before the one that got stuck got commissioned. And I only just learned of that ships’s existence because I saw that picture, but it doesn’t seem to have done anything remarkable during it’s service…

The problem with plastic would be that there is no plastic with sufficient yield strength. I could see a plastc piston skirt working, but the crown and the load path into the pin have to be metal, and there could still be issues with abrasion. An ancient Lada engine might work for a short time, but in a more recent…

With ceramic crowns there would still be thermal conductivity and expansion issues. Plastic and ceramic would still have very different thermal expansion, and thus create all kinds of design challenges. And the thermal conductivity of plastic is really low compared to aluminium. That might not have been an issue in an…

It’s not, and that’s why manufacturers started to leave, as they were sold something different when they joined.

A spec battery is fundamentally different from spec fuel. The closest equivalent of spec fuel would be a maximum battery capacity. An open battery would mean that teams have to develop electrical systems, thermal management and packaging for the battery. All three would influence each other, and have consequences for…

A spec battery is fundamentally different from spec fuel. The closest equivalent of spec fuel would be a maximum battery capacity. An open battery would mean that teams have to develop electrical systems, thermal management and packaging for the battery. All three would influence each other, and have consequences for…

F1 cars do indeed not fill up during the races, but that doesn’t force them to save fuel. The rules mandate a maximum amount of fuel onboard and a maximum fuel flow rate(grams of fuel per second going into the engine). However, the allowable total is large enough that for most races teams don’t even fill up all the…

Maybe not in 2020, but Bottas has had some major crashes before, and Hamilton has also parked a car in the barriers once every two years or so, and they are going to have to lap Mazepin a lot, so not pricing that in would be negligent.

I’ve seen that and loads of pictures, but since it ran at official pre-season testing and N24, it should be much less obscure than some other DTM projects like the 2000 Ford, the ‘93 BMW factory car or the ‘08 Lexus IS-F, so I was hoping that somone had video, but if it does exist, it is hard to find.

I’ve seen that and loads of pictures, but since it ran at official pre-season testing and N24, it should be much less obscure than some other DTM projects like the 2000 Ford, the ‘93 BMW factory car or the ‘08 Lexus IS-F, so I was hoping that somone had video, but if it does exist, it is hard to find.

In 1984, one could probably have build a reasonably competitive tarmac rally car out of an M1, as this was the first year were the first “pure” Group B car(mid engine turbo AWD) appeared when Peugeot started running the 205 in the middle of the season. Before that, there were only the RWD Lancia and lots of cars that…

In 1984, one could probably have build a reasonably competitive tarmac rally car out of an M1, as this was the first year were the first “pure” Group B car(mid engine turbo AWD) appeared when Peugeot started running the 205 in the middle of the season. Before that, there were only the RWD Lancia and lots of cars that…

An AWD car should be able to reach better efficiency, because it can recover three to four  times as much energy as an RWD car. That would take them almost to GT3 stint length, although they would be slower due to their weight.

87kWh at 430kW would give you 20-30min of run time, since it is not hitting full power for large amounts of the lap, and regen would increase that by around 50-60% I would guess.