Ask The Apex

[Galahad]

Monaco 2010?

 

[no-FIAt-please]

Monaco 2010 was 6.3 seconds.

I take it we are not counting safety car finishes? Because Oz 2009 the top 6 were covered by 5.7 seconds.

 

[tooncheese]

Canada '99 was 3.7 seconds.

 

[Jos the Boss]

Canada 1999 was 3.7, SC finish though

 

[Kamui-FastestChefInTheWorld]

If a driver was exactly 1.000 seconds behind at the DRS detection zone, does he get DRS or not?

 

[Jos the Boss]

I'm sure he will, it is a second

 

[Bill Boddy]

I had a feeling that Monza would be the most likely place for close finishes in the past. I remember reading DSJ on one of the Monza races. The pack were swapping places by slipstreaming, any car which lost the slipstream had no hope of catching up whatsoever. It was largely a matter of who came out of the parabolica with the best slingshot.

 

[Brogan]

A thread dedicated to close finishes: http://cliptheapex.com/threads/close-finishes.279/

 

[Bill Boddy]

Thanks Bro, shame that so many of the videos have disappeared. What harm could they possibly do to F1?

 

[Dizzi]

I'd like to ask CTA a question please.
Does anyone know how the wheels on the F1 cars are now 'tethered' so they shouldn't come off in an accident?
We were trying to work it out as we watched a couple of wheels rolling off in the distance during the Monaco weekend.

If this has been covered elsewhere or I've put it in the thread please feel free to boot me over to wherever I'm supposed to be!
thanks

 

[Viscount]

Dizzi

http://www.formula1.com/news/technical/2011/0/817.html

 

[Josh]

http://www.f1technical.net/features/64

This site explains it a little more, despite it being a bit outdated.

 

[Slyboogy]

What system do the DTM mechanics use to get the car in the air without front jacks or at jacks at the back?

I only catch the highlights and have never had a proper view of the pitstops, but watching the last race highlights, I became intrigued

 

[The Pits]

I thought that they had compressed air jacks built in to the car itself, and during the pitstop a guy plugs an air line in and up it goes. They had a similar system in the BTCC at some point, and I believe that Williams had a system in F1 at some point, as a way of getting the car up to the minimum limit, although I am less sure of that, could someone clarify please!! ta.

 

[Josh]

A built-in air-pressure car-jack system. I guess it's built into the car or something... I can't seem to find anything about it (though I admit I haven't been trying very hard).

 

[sportsman]

The actual jacks are built into he car.The air pressure is supplied by a connection by the pit crew.

14 mechanics perform a DTM pit stop – three per wheel, plus one man with the wand that supplies compressed air to the air jack system in the car and the famous “lollipop man” who directs the A5 to the right position in the pit lane with a sign that looks like an oversized lollipop.

 

[The Pits]

Apologies for my earlier innaccuracy, it was the Brabham bt46 with built in jacks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabham_BT46

 

[Josh]

Slyboogy I think the guy carrying the big silver thing is the one who operates the air jack system.

 

[Fenderman]

A similar system is employed in Le Mans prototypes and, I believe in some of the GT classes.

 

[Josh]

Is a system like this not allowed in F1 or is it simply not practical to implement in modern F1 cars? Or are the F1 pitstop crews so good that a system like this would make no difference at all?