Ferrari Mailing List: Re: F1 + rant-ish

[Rick Moseley (ramosel]

Couldn't agree more.

Double points?  What?  was Bernie up late one night watching reruns of the Gong Show...  this has Chuck Barris written all over it?!?!?

So I know a guy...  who used to run the show for a motor supplier that is no longer in the "show".  He still has his ear to the F1 game and the word is:

No one is making mileage... NO ONE.   and the cars are built around the new reduced size fuel cell.  Put it together-

There is almost certain speculation that anyone running hard enough to win the race will run out of fuel before the end of the race.

For the ERS system... they are spinning turbos at 650,000+ rpm (not a typo) and they are popping left and right

So there is possibility that a conservative race pace will produce a winner.... YEAH, now that's racing. NOT.  The FIA and Formula One have their heads so far up their arses its not funny.   But we all know that because in an era when they are trying to control costs they keep changing the motor formula...  care to guess how many hundreds of millions of dollars the manufacturers have put into these little V6 turbos...  let alone the ERS.  Now there's some cost reductions!  NOT

Oh, and the $100K per car batteries that they cook by hot charging at 200+% on the grid are throw away items at every event too....  that's good for the landfills... green? NOT! 

And yet I look forward to seeing formula one on TV next week...  what is wrong with me?  <standing> Hi, my name is Rick and I'm an F1 addict.

I wish someone with some sense would take the rules and regs back a few decades and just set displacement, wheelbase and weight.  After that let it be a free for all.  Those who want a driver's series can watch INDY cars.   F1 needs to be the technical marvel it can be, not the one it is allowed to be.

<soap box mode off>

the other Rick

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From: Rick <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com>
To: Rick Moseley <ramosel [at] pacbell.net>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 6:47 AM
Subject: [Ferrari] F1 + rant-ish

Hey Gang,

Hopefully you're as excited about the upcoming F1 season as am I. Lots of changes in the cars and in the rules. Some are good, some are stupid.

Double points for the last race(s) is just stupid. An outstanding season can be upset by changes in fate or penalties, making the championships close to random events.

Changes in the cars are exciting. The reason for some of the changes is stupid. Nobody, NOBODY, believes that F1 is 'green'. Hell, the transporters use far more fuel than the race cars.

Small engines are interesting BUT, the great advantage of a small displacement engine is high revs - which are not permitted in the 2014 formula.

Finite fuel requirements are going to be the 2014 version of 2013's aweful tire management. Drivers will be restricting acceleration to save fuel, rather than driving to achieve passes. The top teams may have the cyber-umph to manage fuel automatically but the lesser teams may not have that advantage, thereby expanding the time gap.

And while energy recovery is a cool idea, brake-by-wire scares the bejesus out of me! Given how many times KERS failed last year, I wonder what will happen when ERS fails! Yikes!

I don't find the newest cars to be pretty, but pretty is second to performance. The issue that bothers me is when ugly is implemented to force poorer aerodynamic performance. 

And with all that whining said, I really wish I was going to Melbourne. I'm excited to hear the turbo engines - especially when the drivers lift. Waste gate spitting might sound really cool - assuming they use waste gates. That's wasted energy. I wonder if that is being reclaimed?

Anyway, bring on the red cars!!!

-rick

PS: Really glad Massa is doing well.

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