No. I came for the Bugatti, I saw no Bugatti. But why do I expect munkees would know what's a Renault/Lambo/McLaren from a Bugatti?

Anyone douchey enough to OWN a McLaren deserves to have their windows smashed on principle.

The care is owned and driven by Takeshi Kimura, a wealthy property developer who also owns a Ferrari F50, Enzo, 458 Speciale, McLaren P1, Porsche 911 GT3RS, and a Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo (at least according to the internet), so I'm fairly confident it's not a kit car. The F40 suspension is height-adjustable, so they probably set it as high as possible for the snow sequences.

Nah, it was always the same. The lack of overtaking is commonly blamed on high downforce, carbon brakes, and super short braking distances, but it actually wasn't any better before they put wings on cars. Same thing: the rich, fast teams qualify and start at the front and stay at the front and get richer and faster...with the occasional fall from grace (Mclaren) or rise from obscurity (Brawn->Mercedes). As cool as they are technologically, development series like F1 tends to result in boring races.

ed: Oh, and using ground effect has been banned since 81(?). Interestingly, Indycars use the ground effect (though without the skirts so it's not as effective as the F1 ground effect cars), and by virtue of being a (mostly) spec series, has much better races.

Jaguar XJ220 is still my dream car, but I do love the sound of the McLaren.

Best sim experience for either is probably Test Drive Unlimited 1 where you can race either around Oahu in Hawaii.

Ever since the Veyron came out, I've wondered if we need a new top car designation. It seems a step apart from "super cars", especially when you consider an NSX is also considered a "super car" (and you can buy 10-15 of them for the cost of one Veyron). Perhaps the Veyron should be called a hyper car?
Somehow, McLarens never did it for me. I think I would really rather have an Arial Atom or 6.

What they meant by this is to use all power available. They got 100l of fuel to go full 1½h race. The fuel flow is limited to 100l/h. That means they need to use around 67l/h on average, this of course decreases during braking and is almost at max during acceleration. Also energy recovery and the release of that energy has some leeway to be used in different ratios, it is limited to 33s per lap. How that energy is divided, is up to the team.. So they will have the full boost of 160hp from ERS and full 100l/h fuel flow when using "push to pass" button but it's nowhere near the common definition of that function. Traditional push to pass is high boost, on 2014 F1 it means few percentages of power. The correct term would be "overtake mode".

RBR infringed fuel flow rule and no other team had been even warned, FIA has guidelines that teams should calibrate with enough margins to void minor differences between sensors. RBR refused to do this and counted on FIA not counting that marginal change. FIA had stated pre-season that in no case there will be extra fuel flow allowed, it's almost zero tolerance policy.

They've done this before, made a marginal rule infringement and got away with Charlie Whitings slap on the wrist:"change it to the next race".. Their camera mountings is already one of those little things that is technically legal and at the same is not.. It all depends if the TV crews can find a suitable camera. If they say "no", the rules are clear: they need unobstructed view.. That small hole hardly allow high quality picture, the only lens that could even remotely suffice is fisheye lens with a mask: it is not their standard equipment.. RBR most likely will have to change those too (imho, so should merc camera pods and mclaren parachutes too). Compare that to Williams 360 camera pod and it's pretty clear what FIA means by "enough room to fit camera" means.

Last year they had holes on the floor in monaco: ruling was, change them to the next race.. Then there was the TC scandal, RBR used illegal engine mappings.. They used them last year too when there was a ban of feeding fuel to exhaust during zero throttle to feed the blown diffuser: RBR chuckled and used them anyway.. They still have the duct inside the nose, it violates the intention of the rule but is legal technically. Of course the severity of the punishment is a clear sign: FIA just showed that no more of that bullshit, RBR has to start respecting rules.

The last time an Aussie was on the podium for a home race was Allan Jones back in the 80s, but that was a non championship round!

Certainly Magnussen has gone some way to justifying McLaren's decision to replace Checo (Sergio Perez).

One more honourable mention - to Bottas, for keeping the racing interesting long after the podium positions had been decided.

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Yes, exactly. It seems strange that they were seeing failures from springs at such low engine rpm's, but in any case I have heard that you just can't achieve more than 18,000rpm with springs no matter what.

I have found a web page with some nice diagrams and explanations of the electro hydraulic system used by Renault... they have indeed done away with the cam entirely (at least in testing, not sure if it has raced since that article was published). Since the engine management system would have to manage this, and it is a control unit supplied by McLaren, we can be fairly sure that all the engine manufacturers have a common system.

http://scarbsf1.com/valves.html

Would have been hilarious if Mclaren had changed his wheels.

During the race they do front wing adjustments, same as indy cars, so it makes sense to practice this too.

A 4 second pit stop isn't terribly fast compared to their competitors. The top teams are training their pit crews and attempting to match McLaren's 2.4 seconds... giving away three seconds over the course of the race is as much as 15-20 individual car improvements, or half a tenth per lap.

*related=http://videosift.com/video/Fastest-F1-Pit-Stop-Ever-2-4-seconds

Cool vid, thanks

Did you notice they were usually around 3 seconds? The teams are all off practicing and training really hard to try to match McLaren's benchmark 2 point something second stops... the extra 3 seconds they lose during the race is equivalent to finding an extra half a tenth per lap, which is almost as much as 20 car updates.

It really is a hybrid, having both electric and petrol driven motors, leading to better performance than either system alone.

It's not the only one of these bonkers hybrid sports cars.

>> ^Deano:

>> ^robbersdog49:
There hasn't been refuelling in F1 for years, and yes, a 4 second stop is considered pretty poor. Most are around three seconds, with mclaren leading the way with a 2.4 second stop last race.

Wot, no refuelling? No fun! I should watch a race and see what else has changed.


Lots. For example, Red Bull is a top-tier team now...oh, and F1 cars are all hybrids now (kinda).