Forgive the click-baity title and the fact this is from The Race. I thought it was still an interesting article about a topic that hasn’t gotten a lot of coverage.
I really hope they can figure out something to enable true wet weather racing.
Forgive the click-baity title and the fact this is from The Race. I thought it was still an interesting article about a topic that hasn’t gotten a lot of coverage.
I really hope they can figure out something to enable true wet weather racing.
How did they do it 20 years ago? I remember Schumacher had “Monsoon” tires that lifted 200 liters per second or something ridiculous like that
From what I’ve read in other articles the problem isn’t so much the capacity to displace water. The problem has more to do with the ground-effect design and how dirty air throws water up rather than out.
Yeah what I meant is that they already had tyres that were displacing an inordinate amount of water and they had the “dirty air” problem since aero became a thing. So it’s either that the drivers are not used to driving without seeing or that F1 is too worried about another Bianchi situation.
I’m just unhappy that some races are not run because of rain: some of the best races were epic battles because of the rain leveling the playing field.
I think the argument now is that the new aero designs cause the displaced water to reduce visibility much more than before. To be honest, I don’t know enough about aerodynamics to know if that’s true though.
I think you’re right about the minimum “driveable” conditions being higher than in the past. I don’t know what the solution should be, but I really hope they figure out a way to make wet racing possible too.
Let’s be honest here, the only thing needed to prevent a Bianchi situation is keeping the machinery off track until they’ve all caught the safety car. The cars can hydroplane into walls all day long and the drivers will be fine.