Stiffer tyres are way better for chassis design. There will be a lot less uncontrolled movement from the tyres (which have extremely low internal damping) which means the suspension will have a bigger influence on the handling.

Why would contractors be out of the cost cap? If they are üaid for by the team it falls under the cost cap.

163mph is the speedometer speed not the actual speed. I don’t get hpw top gear fail to underdtand this.

Front axle isn’t SLA it’s a semi-virtual

A transverse engine mounted like that will have the mass distribution around 40:60 which is like a Lotus Elise of 911. It will then need staggared tyre sizes and a comprimised front axle to make the thing halfway stable.

So what you’re essentially saying is... get you shit together and grow up?

You know the only thig stopping Mercedes from pulling out a lead big enough to pit and remain in first place is the tyre deg?

E-boosters that I have seen can still be mechanically operated when the electrics fail. If you push far enough it will bypass the booster and become a mechanical only system

I don't know of any motorsport system that is wired up like that. All the one I worked with connect to a CAN bus so you physically can't mix up the sensors in the wiring. You could mix up the receiver I.d. in the software configuration though

Loosing a rear tie rod is way worse than loosing a front one as passenger cars are setup to have more cornering potential on the rear axle for stability reasons.

So a toe angle error on the rear will cause a bigger trajectory change than the same error on the front.

P.S. All the links affect the toe angle. The toe link…

Press cars are ALWAYS tricked out

Comparing a full size SUV and a minivan is missing the point because people aren’t swapping between these.

People swapping to compact SUV’s because minivans are fucking massive and a pain to manover for a lot of people.

There’s practically no such thing as a compact minivan class.

So when the tread wears out you need to shell out for a new wheel? Fuck that.

A lot of the drivers wives worked as timekeepers with the team so the piece of paper could be a lap chart.

Yea but at least each driver will have around about the same number of shit setups in each year. You got a better way of doing it? With junior categories a good engineer can make a massive difference to car setup direction and driver coaching. I don’t see it as a fair to freeze this for a whole season.

Cars and engineers are switched every race.

The Alfa QV diff is totally different to the Ferrari E-diff in that it’s a full torque vectoring diff. The Ferrari E-diff is just an electro-hydraulically actuated clutchplate LSD.

You don’t need experience, that’s the whole point of the long term tests. I’ll add also that the press cars are of a much higher quality than what you ever be able to buy because the quality checks they undergo before being shipped off to the States is way over what you get on the normal production line. So if you get…

This is basically admission they shot themselves in foot with the promise of a $35k BEV Sedan.

If you aren’t into vanity projects by rich dudes I really hope you’re not a motorsports fan cause guess what...