Ask The Apex

[Incubus]

This year's Moto GP season is on course to produce an exclusively Spanish list of GP winners.

Should it come to pass would it be the first time for any INTERNATIONAL motorsport discipline to register all race winners of the same nationality within the one season?

 

[Jos the Boss]

WRC has probably had all Loeb wins

 

[EvilWhippet]

Wouldn't be surprised if there'd been an all Finnish WRC at some point.

Wasn't F1 all German winners in 2011?

 

[Johnny Carwash]

All ten races that were part of the 1963 F1 season were won by British drivers and they were:
Graham Hill
John Surtees
Jim Clark

 

[Galahad]

I've a question: who was in charge of the first "Trulli train"?

The furthest back I can go, off the top of my head, is Gilles in the 1980 Ferrari truck at Monaco and Jarama. Any advance?

 

[tooncheese]

Galahad, Moss at Monaco '61?

 

[gethinceri]

Jarno Trulli?

 

[The Artist.....]

tooncheese... I can see where you're coming from there, but Moss at Monaco was a little different, as he wasn't just holding all the cars back... It was regularly 2-3 seconds from Moss to the Ferraris - but I think you have a point here...

 

[The Artist.....]

Galahad .... Whilst I realise that it's not prior to the Villeneuve example, I think that Thierry Boutsen at Hungary 1990 deserves an honourable mention here!

 

[Mephistopheles]

As do I...

 

[Wombcat]

Gilles in the 1980 Ferrari truck at Monaco and Jarama.

Wasn't that 1981? Although the 1980 Ferrari was even slower, so that would open up possibles for a nice train as well.

 

[LifeW12]

Watch the first few laps of the 1997 Japanese Grand Prix and suddenly the Trulli train becomes insignificant.

Also the first half of the 1986 Spanish Grand Prix, Senna had about 5 cars behind him (all saving fuel of course)

 

[Galahad]

Wasn't that 1981?

Yes, it was, my mistake.

 

[Josh]

What's the difference between KERS and ERS?

 

[F1Yorkshire]

One is kinetic recovery which is generated by the engine during braking, the new system I'm not so sure....

 

[Fenderman]

At its simplest KERS (kinetic energy recovery system) recovers kinetic energy from deceleration which is stored as kinetic energy in a fly wheel system or is converted and stored as electrical energy in a battery system. The energy recovery system (ERS) is so named because the newer system is designed to recover both kinetic and thermal energy.

 

[Mephistopheles]

KERS only uses Kinetic energy to charge the battery whereas ERS will also use Thermal as well as Kinetic energy TERS and so they have just called it ERS to simplify things.

KERS only allowed the driver to us 400Kj's of energy per lap for some 6 seconds (80bhp,) but ERS will allow the driver to use 4Mj's per lap for some 33.33 seconds. (160bhp.)

ERS will be charged from 2Mj's of Kinetic energy plus 2Mj's of Thermal energy....

I suppose they could have called it TAKERS Thermal And Kinetic Energy Recovery System.

I quite like that... I'll give myself a pat on the back....

 

[Fenderman]

I bet you had to look that up

 

[Mephistopheles]

Maybe Fenderman but the acronym TAKERS. is all my own work...

 

[Fenderman]

And very good work, if I may say so Mephistopheles. In fact it is so appropriate that I shall nick it and use it in Rooters reports.