Thanks, I really have this feeling that back in ye olden days, 2021, Baku, car 44 maybe would have won the race and title had he not had the technology that he approved the position of the button that cost him a title..
F1 should be about the meat in the seat, F1 should not be "who has the best mobile win11 server" right now F1 cars have more computer tech than most Walmarts have on the floor..
What do I know, I just miss the old loud mechanical days, tech is great but it has now become so sanitized, so artificial, that it has lost purpose...
The problem with F1 is that all teams are heading towards the same design, all cars will have to be exactly the same.. Physics.. we know this from the Concorde. Delta wings and all that, there is only 1 right answer, and you cannot avoid this..
You have 10 teams, and 10 teams with 10 solidwork subscriptions.. Ouch, you can see where this is going.. I seem to recall there was some issue with some industry, everyone had the same fault.. it turned out they all used the same CAD, or was it a movie.. I remember know, it was a plane crash, and the investigators were trying to figure out, no acutally it was the fire in the UK train station.. About flashover fires, the boffins created the layout in software, and had the fire burn, and it did something they did not expect a low fire, it burned low and fast.. When they reviewed the processed data, this confused them, did they input the data for gravity as negative.. So they checked and re-processed..
100% correct, then they built a 75% to scale model, and set that on fire, and 100% from the high speed, exactly as the computer model had predicted...
So with Solidworks being what everyone uses, Fluid Dynamics being coded with the same data across 10 licences.. A=A.. So as each team works to solve aerodynamic issues, each team is using the same exact software, they will derive the same answer.. And problem.. engine is maxxed out, aero maxed out.. the only variable.. the weight of the meat in the seat.. We have a minimum weight of driver and car.. So if you have the pilot at 80kg, and another at 85... Who is WDC? So do we ban anyone that is more than 1kg heavier, as they cannot win..A car that is 800kg will travel faster than a car that is 805kg..
How do we mitigate for this? That is a solved problem.. had it for at least 300 yrs.. Handicapping.. Donkey racing.. Jockeys and donkeys are weighed and each jockey has to carry ballast to compensate, then it is up to the fitness of the mule and the jockey to encourage the nag..
What do we want F1 to be? Right now, it is chaos, it is neither here nor there, it is confused.. Which direction to take, this or that, what?
