It's Sunday. What are you going to do today?

[Tank]

Can't show the video here, just follow the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6h7NnkX7hk

[Tank]

whats with the flashing red lights in the back? does this class require a brake light? most motorcycle road races require all brake lights to be disconnected.

The flashing red lights indicate the car's battery is exhausted and/or being replenished. This means the power is down by around 350hp so is going to slow down.

what are the engine requirements? are the class requirements published online anywhere?

https://www.mercedes-amg-hpp.com/formula-1-engine-facts/#

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.the-beginners-guide-to-formula-1-engine-and-gearbox-penalties.2TSy7BFgEvdNLojGLWS3F1.html

why dont they show more in-cab video? i want to see what the driver sees when he chooses a line through the corner

No idea. Complain to the producers

how many laps? how many miles?

All races are the same length, with one exception, of 190 miles minimum. So in practice 190 miles falls partway around the last lap. The number of laps is determined by the length of the track. The exception is Monaco because the track is so tight and twisty and therefore slow, it has a race length of 160 miles.

The race has a maximum duration of 2 hours in a 3 hour window from the start of the race.

how long do the tires last? how many pit stops?

This is seriously tricky. There are 6 grades of slick tyres plus a full wet and an intermediate wet. So 8 possible tyres in all. The 6 slick tyres go in order of softest to hardest, obviously. But only 3 contiguous grades are available on any given race and the total sets of tyres is limited. At Monaco the three softest grades are used. At Silverstone grades 3,4 and 5 are used. During the actual race these are called the soft (red band), medium (yellow band) and hard (white band) tyre. Each team must use at least 2 different grades of tyre during race thus guaranteeing at least one pit stop. If the race is declared wet the race starts on full wet tyres then any combination of tyres can be used throughout the race. A race is declared wet when there is standing water somewhere on the racing line.

There is no refueling during the race. There is a maximum fuel limit of 100kg. The cars never start with a full tank. The cars must finish with 1 litre of fuel for testing. If the don't they are disqualified. When Andrew was performance engineer one of his jobs was calculating the fuel load of the car at the start.

[Tank]

tank, what is your boy doing with lando?

He is Lando's principal race engineer. This means he runs the car during the race keeping a very close eye on the telemetry. He is the only person who will talk to Lando during the race. There is also a performance engineer who looks after tyres and fuel and a strategy person who works on pit stops etc.

what does he say about this race?

He loves Spa.

what is his opinion of where the technology is going?

Don't know at the moment but we're off to America for two weeks next week so I'll know a lot more about that when I get back.

[Tank]

whats the deal with this verstappen guy? does he have competition?

His father and his mother were both racing drivers. His father an F1 driver. His dad gave up driving when Max was born and he groomed him to be an F1 world champion. A bit like the Willaims sisters father in tennis. He's the youngest ever F1 driver at 17. When he first drove in F1 he wasn't road legal. He is absolutely focused on winning.

is this a series competition?

Yes. Next year they are trying for 24 races. It is the largest sporting event on the planet regards viewing. 490,000 people attended Silverstone (British Grand Prix) this year with an average ticket price of $150. More people watch F1 every year than watch the World Cup when it is staged. The weekend starts on Friday with the main race on Sunday. Some races happen at night like Singapore so the live show coincides with European mid afternoon prime time. Some are held at night for reasons of temperature eg Saudi.

do they race elsewhere for points over the season?

Yes all over the world.

how does this work?

Insanely complex logistics.

what is the history?

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_One

where do they go next?

The whole show stops next week for 2 weeks. The factories are locked up and closed and the FIA has people on site to make sure no work takes place. Breaking the 'summer break' rules can result in significant fines. This is why we can see Andrew over this period.

The next race is the 27th August in Zandvoort in the Netherlands. Vastapens home race. A mid length bendy track by the sea. F1 doesn't race on ovals just dedicated tracks and some street circuits like Monaco.

[Tank]

and everything else.

Google is your friend

[Tank]

Got three anchors in the wall on the fence panel I mentioned yesterday, and two of three lag screws into it and the gate post. Got to go buy one tomorrow in the morning when it's cool and shoot it in.

Drove around the neighborhood for awhile this morning looking for the new grille for my truck. It was delivered to the wrong address at 10:17 PM yesterday. The delivery weenie took a pic but it is obviously not my garage. And who leaves a delivery in front of the garage in a residential area, anyway? Fucking stupid. It was probably stolen from there, give that it was in plain sight.

Bugger!

[Dark Lightning]

^ Agreed! We put in a "stop payment" (or whatever it's called) on our credit card. The vendor is now likely aware of that. They'll put some heat on FEDEX, I hope.

[billy rubin]

this four wheel stuff is fascinating

but i have to say tbat to me, two wheels is less a race than the exercise of an art form.

i havent worked this through but this fluffy video captures pieces of it

i dont quite know how to express this, but to me pushing a mototcycle to the limits of physics  is a musical composition.

not trying to be ostentatious but speed on two wheels is much more to me than what it appears like to other peopke

i dont know how to explain this

and the TT would be a master composition. at least for me.

[Tank]

I have ridden a couple of small bikes over the years. There are times when driving a particularly beautiful stretch of twisty road I wish I were on a bike. Ballet on wheels.

[billy rubin]

the small ones are often the most challenging. you have no horsepower to make up for a mistake, so your success is all basef on skil in riding and picking the lines.

these formula one cars have a battery assist and regenerative braking? so the ifea is to finish the race with the battery just barely stone dead?

[Tank]

They have regenerative breaking and a generator/motor fitted to the turbo charger. When the driver accelerates the G/M winds the turbo up to stop turbo lag. When the turbo is at full speed the G/M harvests energy from the exhaust flow and dumps the power into the battery.
 

[billy rubin]

is the battery charged at the beginning of the race or does the driver have to do it?

[Tank]

is the battery charged at the beginning of the race or does the driver have to do it?

Don't know. I'll ask if I remember

[MarcusA]

It's Sunday again. Nothing happening, nothing.

[Tom62]

No big plans for today. Maybe I will watch a couple of movies and work on my open source project.