The 2020 F1 Season

[IanW]

I drove the McLaren simulator and felt very unwell afterwards!

Which one? Like the majority of teams (other than Haas and possibly Alpha Tauri), they have multiple simulators). Was it the rail based one?

I struggle in driver in the loop simulators, even when they are very good, but it is possible to train yourself to drive them. Get up to speed gradually and avoid spinning. If you spin you need to shut your eyes as simulators are very poor at simulating spins (they are not designed to do this).

 

[wow&flutter]

I think the average driver would require the motoring equivalent on a porn movie ‘fluffer’ to get the tyres and brakes up temp before they jump into an F1 car! That of course would only allow them to keep it on the road providing they can keep the temps up, the potential g forces are another matter!

 

[Rack Kit]

Can't argue with this. Got to be one of the best looking F1 cars of all time. https://twitter.com/TheBishF1/status/1239838467103866880?s=20

 

[clivem2]

Which one? Like the majority of teams (other than Haas and possibly Alpha Tauri), they have multiple simulators). Was it the rail based one?

I struggle in driver in the loop simulators, even when they are very good, but it is possible to train yourself to drive them. Get up to speed gradually and avoid spinning. If you spin you need to shut your eyes as simulators are very poor at simulating spins (they are not designed to do this).

It don’t believe it was a rail based one...presumably the rail ones move the seat on rails? It was at a McLaren road car event at Millbrook. I think it was the wrap around screens disorienting me.

 

[Bob McC]

So Monaco GP cancelled, not postponed.
Will we ever see it return?

 

[sq225917]

Can't argue with this. Got to be one of the best looking F1 cars of all time. https://twitter.com/TheBishF1/status/1239838467103866880?s=20

Loving that first post, it's 100% a rendering not a photo.

 

[peter bj]

They could be using the 2020 car next year at this rate as not looking like many races will be held

 

[cutting42]

They could be using the 2020 car next year at this rate as not looking like many races will be held

They will be as the 2021 new rules have been postponed to 2022

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/148732/f1-key-players-agree-to-postpone-2021-regulations

 

[peter bj]

That seems very sensible , thanks for the info

 

[IanW]

It don’t believe it was a rail based one...presumably the rail ones move the seat on rails? It was at a McLaren road car event at Millbrook. I think it was the wrap around screens disorienting me.

Okay, that was a marketing one and nothing like the ones that we have developed to hep us deliver vehicle performance more effectively. Noone has been sick (I have been told that is the case in ones at previous companies) in any of the simulators that I have led the development of. Also there are ways of managing drivers in high fidelity simulators to minimise the chances of them feeling sick.

 

[Tony Lockhart]

Esports F1...

This is a load of awful crap. It’s like watching kids tv on a Saturday morning. And believe it or not, start delayed due to technical hitch.

And this is what F1 was like before Bernie sorted it out.

 

[Tony Lockhart]

Now reduced length race. Jeepers.

 

[Tony Lockhart]

I gave up before the 'race' started.

 

[Eyebroughty]

You did not miss much, it was total crap.

 

[Accuphaseman]

Thought the race more exciting than the real thing.

 

[cutting42]

I watched a tiny bit, it was like watching pub football. A couple who can drive, a few hopeless and the rest who should have retired years ago.

Mildly entertaining as watching folks who have never hit an apex in their lives trying to get round without crashing and some deliberate bashing which was funny for 30 seconds.

I quite like the idea - if not the commentators, if they can get a few more decent drivers and sort the tech out I will try again.

 

[tones]

So Monaco GP cancelled, not postponed.
Will we ever see it return?

I expect it to return. It is not only the most glamorous event in the calendar, but it is also one of F1's few links with the past. It could well be considered the jewel in the F1 crown. These will overcome its manifest unsuitability as a modern F1 circuit and its general failure to provide decent racing (as Nelson Piquet famously described it, like flying through your living room in a helicopter).

 

[tones]

I see that the Le Mans 24 hours has been pushed off until September. memories of "the race of the long night" in 1968, when, because of the disturbances that were to force the resignation of Charles de Gaulle, the race was moved to September. If I recall correctly, they were allowed to use an extra battery because of the longer use of lighting in September. It was won by the famous Chassis 1075 Ford GT40, which was to repeat its win the following year, by around 100M after 24 hours and a wheel-to-wheel battle at the end for twice the length of a Grand Prix.

P.S. Jacky is not correct - four other cars have won twice, a Bentley Speed Six, a Ferrari 275, a Porsche 956 and a Porsche-powered TWR.

 

[stevec67]

I watched a tiny bit, it was like watching pub football. A couple who can drive, a few hopeless and the rest who should have retired years ago.
Mildly entertaining as watching folks who have never hit an apex in their lives trying to get round without crashing and some deliberate bashing which was funny for 30 seconds.

Sounds like the last time I watched club motorsport at Cadwell. Half a dozen cars whose drivers are so varied in ability that they were each 100 yards apart after a lap, and by the end of the 6 lap race the leader was just about coming up to lap the slowest but wouldn't actually get there.
*Sometimes* you get a decent race, on the slower bits of the circuit where they bunch up a bit. Hall Bends is good fun.

 

[Tony Lockhart]