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I wonder how the strength required to drive F1 compares to piloting a MotoGP bike. Women have tried to compete in MGP but haven't been able to succeed. I've always assumed that it's due to the lack of sufficient upper body strength.
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^^^ Interesting question . I have wondered about the comparison of an Indy car vs F1 . F1 cars have power steering whereas Indy car do not . To me that would mean more upper body physical strength would be needed for the Indy car . I could be wrong . Katherine Legge had fairly successful Indy car runs .
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The bump coming out of turn 17 (which is really just the exit of turn 15) is pretty big. Even in the Cayman it gets my attention since it's about 100 mph under heavy lateral load. I don't think TV really shows how big it is.
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2023 F1 Technical Rules www.fia.com/sites/default/files/fia_2023_formula_1_technical_regulations_-_issue_1_-_2022-06-29.pdf Just copy and paste the above into Google and you should be able to download all 178 pages It's heavy reading so if you want to read the plank rules for the two drivers disqualified, just skip to section 3.5.9 I enjoy F1 level of detail, the fun bit is finding the vague parts and exploiting them legally within the rules ie no illegal funny business as any dumb ass can cheat |
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The floor violation is pretty frustrating. For there to be two cars of four that failed when the last individual failure was what, '93, is absurd. That tells me that there are very likely several more cars that failed, and that the combination of only one practice session and the bumpy track was throwing the teams off in a serious way.
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 Maybe why the floor was ground down.
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Adrian Newey will be at Daytona in two weeks. He's running a GT40.
I'll be sure to ask him his thoughts.
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Not a great Vasseur imitation, but the rest is funny... "im so thankful" - LOL
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What its like on the ground in Vegas, https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/traffic/playing-in-traffic-what-driving-around-f1-construction-is-really-like-2928630/.
Thanks to Autosport forum poster loki for the link.
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