You make a good point that I failed to consider. Water is far denser than helium or hydrogen, so the same gram of material is a (much) smaller volume.

Just being pedantic here, but water (~4 j/gk) does NOT have the highest specific heat known to man. That said, of common materials that are easy and safe to work with, it is indeed remarkably high.

Oh, we are very much SOL. In North Carolina, the only thing that might be more invulnerable to criticism than BBQ is... maybe Michael Jordan? And even then, he’s just one man.  BBQ is a way of life here.

Can you go talk to the Smithfield hog farming people here in NC? Because they’re constantly in legal battles over their rancid-ass pig shit ponds.

I’m not willing to rule out a liquid-filled tire yet. F1 still has a *minimum* car weight, so there’s definitely wiggle room for heavier tire filling. One could even potentially rig up some sort of H20 reservoir/radiator setup to cycle water in and out of the tire to maintain optimal temperature AND improve brake…

Yeah, like I said, I’m not a chemist. I’m an immunologist. And I live in NC where there is constant legal wrangling against Smithfield pig farms for the biblical stench of what the news calls “methane emissions.” And if you ever passed by one of those places, you’d immediately have an unshakeable association between…

This is a quality analysis, well done. I doubt any liquid could rust any components to a failure point within the time-frame of a race. That all potentially goes out the window if there are rules mandating that you’ve got to use the same set of wheels all season.  I’m not knowledgeable enough to have that answer off…

At first, I thought you were mistakenly conflating humidity with temperature, but then I remembered Avogadro’s law. Turns out you’re right, and that’s a very interesting factoid!

Sad but true. I still think it’s worth it to try, though.

Yeah, the whole concept of adding water to the tire seems weird to me. But now I’m curious what the very best tire-filling material could be haha

Really? I’m an immunologist, rather than a chemist, and was under the assumption that methane does, indeed stink. Though I am, regrettably, intimately acquainted with the fragrant bouquet of mercaptans and thiols and whatnot.

Water has a ridiculously high specific heat, and steam is also pretty high. It takes a LOT of energy to heat it up. To me, it sounds like they’re trying to buffer their tire temps or slow down/prevent temps from getting *too* high and accelerating tire degradation.

I’m honestly kind of surprised there isn’t a standard-issue (exclusive) gas/gas mixture that’s mandatory.

Lincoln. I don’t remember the last time I heard someone say that they wanted one. I know I once heard someone say a Lincoln Aviator(?) was their dream car a few years ago, and remember thinking, “that’s a sad dream car.”

Vigilante “justice” almost always makes things worse.

I'm still annoyed by the Roxor thing. I really want one.

That thing looks like a Jeep got into Seth Brundle’s teleporter with an E30 M3.

Well, there’s apparently two of these things, and they seat five comfortably, so we might be able to get Memphis and Sway on board too and nab both!

Death, taxes, and laughing at farts.

Can’t wait for the non-pilots to have big opinions on this one!