Formula 1: Turbo era never ends

One way to absolutely guarantee safety-standards is to annually have each team submit a couple cars for crash-testing. (Yes, the crash-test cars can leave out electronics, etc., with equal-weight lumps of what-not in place of expensive machinery.)

The crash tests are fairly standard, side-impact, rear-impact, front off-set impact, front "wall" impact, and, conducted at 500kmh (310mph).

When videos of these go viral, and I'd bet my scrotum that they do, income from advertising space at the top and/or bottom of the screen would be nice for donations to orphanages, etc.
 
No idea, but I know the fuel base was mostly toluene, which is highly toxic. Getting a thousand horsepower fer liter of engine displacement isn't easy, and I doubt its even possible with any reliability on straight racing gasoline.

Well, at least they didn't think to feed benzene into the engines and use chlorine trifluoride as an oxidizer...:rolleyes: though I'm sure if they could reliably avoid the possibility of a metal-fluorine fire they would.
 
let's bring back the monsters

The spirit is there.

Red-Bull-X1-Prototype-by-IDC.jpg
 
Don't have to ditch all the rules, but limiting to a few rules would do a lot.

1. budget restrictions
2. set amount of of fuel per race (or equivalent in case of electric).
3. fuel has be available for normal roadcars (ie Gas 95 octane, Diesel or Electric)
4. max 1000hp
5. min 1000kg (including driver)
6. durability issue, engine has to be used for at least 3 weekends (which later could be upped to 4).
7. max dimensions.
for the rest no rules apart from maybe some fairplay rules like no intentional crashing yr opponent.

As you can tell the rules are meant to stimulate technological development.
(now I have this vision of a 6 wheel tyrell like car that has all wheel drive and hybrid propulsion)
These limited rules could see turbocharged engines, gasturbines, diesels and maybe even electric cars (in case battery tech improves enough).
 
One way to absolutely guarantee safety-standards is to annually have each team submit a couple cars for crash-testing. (Yes, the crash-test cars can leave out electronics, etc., with equal-weight lumps of what-not in place of expensive machinery.)

The crash tests are fairly standard, side-impact, rear-impact, front off-set impact, front "wall" impact, and, conducted at 500kmh (310mph).

They already have to crashtest the new cars every year i'm fairly sure.

310 --> 0 would presumably result in instant death through G-load even if the car survived?
 
Fuel would be the best way to limit unlimited turbo cars, keep the fancy shit like tolulene out of the fuels and boost won`t be too ridculous.
Agreed. FIA could simply require teams to use a spec fuel, like NASCAR does. (Or require use of readily-available pump gas from a vendor in the host country...:rolleyes:)
TheMann said:
FIA would want there to be an ability to run with naturally-aspirated motors to run with the turbos, so bet on the NA formula being boosted from 3.5 to 4.5 or 5.0 liters. Toyota's awesome F1 V12, which sadly never raced (FU Mosley) would probably be used, and V12s would be the most common motors, matching bigger displacement with more RPMs, and probably even V16s would be on deck.
:cool::cool::cool::cool:

One easy way to counter it is limits on tank capacity. Or a ban on tire stops. Preferably both. That would limit the usefulness of all that power... (Til the March 6-wheeler appears.:rolleyes:)

An even easier way is one I doubt FIA would ever adopt: ban aero aids entirely.:rolleyes: If it looks dramatically different from a '68 Lotus 33,:cool::cool: it ain't legal.:rolleyes: (Not to say carbon fibre monocoque won't be legal. Or traction control. Or electronic engine management.)
modelcitizen said:
we can hope fervently that the fancy suspension tech (and, unleashed variable wing tech, ground-effect plumbing, variations of the incredible Chaparral 2J "vacuum" car, etc.) keeps cars from flying into the grandstands
Cool as that would be,:cool::cool: it makes the cars so damn fast, they'd be lethal.:eek::eek:
 
Top