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That's because of the ERS, without them, they would be significantly down on power compared to the V8s, never mind the V10s, despite all efficiency gains in these later years.

More cylinders will inevitably means more power, all other things being equal.



AFAIK, the engines are not drawn, unlike with the tyres, which means the engine supplier/manufacturers can provide any engine they want to their customers. I'm sure the Mercedes' PU on the Force India, Williams..... are inferior to the one on Toto Wolf's and Niki Lauda's team, if that's really the case.

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codename_47, the cases you mentioned are like exceptions, afair. The sport started with purism and was like that for several decades but for sure there were several moments in the 2000s where they loved to throw some absolutely unecessary SC, even if a mere plastic bag was in a place no car passed by, just to spice up the show

I'm liking how fan friendly Liberty Media has been on the official youtube channel. That Bottas' onboard is very useful.

PS: When I badmouthed Honda before the cars' launches, there were a few people here who were not pleased with my comments. It's okay to be a Honda fan and I didn't mean to offend any fan, it's just that it's very difficult to trust Honda and the situation seems even worse than what I was predicting.

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but to find 3 seconds?

Raikkonen just did a 1.18.634 on supersoft

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I'm still baffled the Honda sucked so bad in the first place. They had plenty of time to test the damn thing. I'm pretty sure they weren't bound to F1 rules before entering so they could have had 2-3 full season distances of testing done.

I bet my left testicle that the VW/Audi engine RBR was rumored to run if Dieselgate didn't happen would be on par with the top engines if not better.

It seems Honda just don't know what they're doing. Renault missed the mark first time around but they got it to turn around so why not Honda?

Here we go...

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Before testing started Honda said they'd built a power unit with a huge potential but it came with an equal amount of risk.



Full article - http://www.autosport.com/news/report.ph ... -high-risk

None of what is happening should come as a surprise.

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At least the scrapped token system isn't holding updates back anymore.

He's past it, he should retire, etc.

Problem McLaren are suffering from this week is an intermittent electrical shutdown.

They have canceled all media briefings previously scheduled for today.

I hear that is because they can't gets the lights working in their motorhome

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But don't you think the extend of the misery is quite surprising? Sure testing is meant to discover en solve problems, but this is a whole new level and almost worse than 2015.

I agree VW would likely be better than Merc but the thing is that VAG never really intended to enter F1. There is no point, really. Toyota was bad in F1 and it didn't harm their sells after they, correctly, got out.

Mclaren will have to make do with a Renault, next year.

The lights aren't the problem; it's the power source:

The engine thing is something my boss and I discuss often.

2.5L naturally aspirated, 12 cylinder limit, no rev limit.

1.5L turbo, 6 cylinder limit, 15,500 rev limit (or whatever is applicable.)

Throw the hybrid junk in the trash bin, leave it for the sport cars. F1 has never been about road relevance, even though manufacturers have used technology developed in F1 for road cars, that result was never the explicit intent. F1 has gone the opposite direction, implementing road car technology (highly sophisticated of course) in their race cars.

All manufacturers have to sell engines to whoever wants one (cost capped), all manufacturers are welcome. Teams do not have to build their own cars (face it, the big teams always will build their own but smaller teams will happily pay Dallara, or whoever to build them a car.) Current safety regs and car must fit into a box A x B x C.

With an equitable distribution of prize money, simpler rules and costs that aren't in the $500 million club, it would free up teams to be able to think outside the box to exploit advantages where they find them. The big boys are always going to be at the front. What we need is to fill in the backend and provide smaller teams the ability to compete and develop into something. Right now, the rules and costs are so prohibitive that no new team (talking privateer) is going to make anything of themselves.

that's from your spectator point of view. But you have to consider the constructors point of view.
There are brands like mercedes, renault, fiat, honda involved, they don't want to spend millions of dollars to develop something that is pointless in the market.

I've found this cool explanation of what shark fins are for (actually, this guy sounds knowledgeable on racecar aerodynamics in general, and a lot of aspects he covers in other videos are very interesting even to the fan who thinks they saw it all ).

hybrid power units could make more sense if they worked for more fuel efficiency and if the races were measured by time (2 hours +1lap) instead of distance

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