Smaller turbo could help with turbo lag. Less inertia for rotation startup, so could help on the low end of the torque curve. Top end could be limited, however, by the RPM limit and the higher rotation speed of the smaller turbo at peak pressure. Higher altitude will require more compression for the same low altitude performance. Where is the peak RPM for the smaller turbo at altitude, and will they be capped? Or will this higher RPM generate too much heat as well?
IMO this report from the RACE is only one part of the story and not the whole part.
🚨 | 𝗙𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗔𝗥𝗜’𝗦 𝗦𝗠𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗕𝗢 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗕𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗔𝗡 𝗔𝗗𝗩𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗠𝗘𝗫𝗜𝗖𝗢
Mexico’s thin air forces F1 turbos to work harder and at higher RPM to produce the required airflow.
The Race reports Ferrari’s smaller turbo should cope better with that challenge.
Lewis Hamilton also expects around 25–30% less downforce than the last time F1 raced here, but believes the SF-26 “should be good” if Ferrari can switch the tyres on.
[The Race]
#F1 #Ferrari #MexicoGP
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Starting in 2027, the FIA will BAN the use of multiple rim designs in a single weekend to prevent a development race... but why is that an issue with a cost cap in place? 😭
Summary:
1) Teams have been allowed to design their own rims since 2026
2) This lets them manage tyre temperatures much better, e.g. cooler during a race stint → less wear
3) Ferrari introduced a new design in Barcelona, which played a role in HAM's win
4) McL started experimenting with it too
5) The FIA feared (but why?) that teams could develop one set for quali (heating tyres quickly) and one for the race (cooling them down)
6) Ban starting from 2027: only one rim design for both quali and race
As a fan of the technical side of #F1, I find these “visual” changes and innovations (wings, rims, etc.) among the most exciting aspects of the sport. Why ban them when a cost cap is in place? You’re only making F1 less interesting for no reason...
What's your opinion?
📸: @wearetherace
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Que nunca se olvide que los delincuentes de la @fia le echaron la culpa al piloto por este “accidente” y no a los que decidieron sacar una grúa a pista con los coches girando colocando solo amarilla local en condiciones de diluvio y sin estar detrás del coche de seguridad
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When the car is turning, the air strikes the side of the car. When you have such a large obstacle in yaw, the only choice is for the air to go under and around the side pod, engine cover, and fin. Basically the whole rear corner of the car is the pressure side of a wing in yaw.
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26R16 Sepang
Simulación con 7.5 MJ de recarga, y 4 Straight modes.
Zona de reducción de potencia aplicada también.
Esta es la simulación de clasificación.
☑️Hay superclipping, pero poco.
☑️Equilibrado para los neumaticos.
☑️Circuito de motor, ICE +MGUK, pero se puede recargar bien.
☑️Poco tiempo sólo con motor térmico (ICE).
☑️Mucha estrategia con las 2 rectas para adelantar. como pasaba con el DRS.
If you want to see how tufts react in a stall condition on a wing, then check out the video below. A great illustration of how this simple visual device can show an instantaneous change in the flow field. So simple, yet so effective.
youtu.be/Lce_4oA_UBI?t=45
This excellent photo by @MateuszMrz8 shows another way of visualizing the air flow that differs from the flow visualization paint.
These are tufts. The small tufts (light string) moves as the air drags it along. The lower attached device is likely a camera that is recording the tufts as they move in real time. This helps engineers to see how the air is move at any instant. Typically showing variations in flow direction, or minor flow fluctuations.
So how is this different than the flow visualization paint?
Flow viz paint drags the paint over the surface of the car which produces a “time averaged” representation of the flow field. In other words, it’s gives engineers a picture of the flow field in an average sense. It can show separation regions, but it won’t show dynamic separation. Or separation events that only occur under a particular condition. This is where tufts can help.
Say your scenario is you experience some load loss in a high G corner with lots of body roll. You suspect maybe you have flow separation on an aero device. A time averaged picture wouldn’t pick up on this. But these tufts moving and recorded at any instant would. They would show engineers just when and where the flow field changes, at any instant, correlated with any track or car condition.
This is why the old school method of using tufts can be so useful still.
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🚨 | Max Verstappen: "People just drive past you like you're a turtle. But apparently, we have the fastest engine."
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I didn't trust FIA's lack of transparency about ADUO... so we analysed the data from the WHOLE SEASON and wrote a paper detailing the process! 🤩
This is the most legendary #F1 post you'll read this week
🗒️Key points:
-Mercedes: +7.3 hp vs RBPT
-ADUO upgrades: Ferrari gained 9.6 hp (1/5 of its deficit), Audi 7.6 hp, Honda 11.4 hp
-Honda lacked over 100 hp at the season start!
Read on for the full article! 👇
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VETTEL TO DRIVE THE F2002 AT MONZA IN HONOUR OF SCHUMACHER. 🇮🇹🐎
📰 @GiulyDuchessa
F1 2026 Front wing:
11 different interpretations of the same Technical Regulations. #TechF1 #F1 #DutchGP #F12026
Highlighted with "neon lights":
-Nose and pillars (Light blue)
-Main Plane (Green)
-Foot Plate (Red)
-Endplate(Yellow)
-Dive Plane (Orange)
-Upper flap trailing edge (Pink)
All the photos are from Spa-Francorchamps except for the Aston Martin, which is from Hungary (📸XPB/Nextgen-auto)
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Back on the pitwall for the first time since 2023 with F1 and AWS. But this time as your strategist. (Yep, that’s right.)
The New Strategy Insight, powered by @awscloud , launches this weekend in Hungary for the AWS @F1 Grand Prix. It takes live timing, telemetry and historical race data and shows you why a team extends a stint, covers an undercut, or leaves a car out with Safety Car risk building.
Hungary is the perfect place to start. Strategy lives on a knife edge here. Strategists have to work it out IN the race. One stop or two. They combine historical data with what they’re seeing live. Race strategy isn’t a paper plan you make on Sunday morning, it’s the answer to a living, breathing question, monitoring millions of data points, projecting gaps, tyre degradation, wind and temperature conditions in real time. Strategists, drivers, engineers, all working in unison to get it right… first.
A two-stop needs the first pit by lap 20 of 70, which means the call gets made well before that. Wait too long on the two-stop and you lose. Go too early and it becomes a one-stop, and you lose. Teams have 12 laps to solve it.
Teams are reassessing constantly, and that’s the part viewers never get to see. With the Strategy Insight tool you won’t have to wait for a car to appear in the pit lane to work out what was decided. We’ll show you the story as it evolves.
I’ll be on the pitwall for Qualifying and the Race, live on F1TV and @AppleTV and watch what Strategy Insight can find.
(And now I understand why drivers tear up getting back in their old cars. Just a bit of track evolution pit lane dust in my eyes 🥹)
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The top of the side pod generates lift/ and downwash, and the trailing edge then becomes the pressure surface. The undercut is supposed to be the suction side of that pressure surface instead of the top of the sidepod. A wide sidepod moves that undercut vortex further outboard.
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🚨 Los F1 de 2030-2031 apuntan a tener SOLO un 10% de electrificación, SIN TURBO
👉 Mohammed Ben Sulayem: "El V8 está confirmado. Habrá una versión híbrida, pero ligera y sencilla".
👉 "Se obtiene la potencia del motor de combustión interna, de unos 760 CV, con un 10% de electrificación. Sin turbo. Un turbo añade peso y coste".
🎶 "La misión es: simplicidad, control de costes y calidad de sonido para el público".
[@racefansdotnet]
#F1
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The fourth win of the season for Denny Hamlin. nitter.cf/NASCARONFOX/status/206…
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با علم فعلی جهان، میلیاردر هم بشوید، نمیتوانید از ژنتیکتان فرار کنید. ژنوم اجدادتان در تمام عمر به سراغتان میآید. لباسهای شیک جای قد بلند، اندام متناسب و چهره زیبا را نمیگیرد. اندکی میتوانیم آنرا بهبود دهیم. دنیا هیچ وقت جای عادلانهای نیست. گرفتاری از رحم مادر شروع میشود.
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If you're a good engineer, remember the people who need you, are effectively useless or they wouldn't need you in the first place. Charge them accordingly since they're the ones devaluing the currency.
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Fuck I love the TT nitter.cf/JimNotBob/status/20607…












































