It’s not lack of resources that causes FE cars to be so much slower than F3 cars it’s the batteries. F1 budgets are a tiny fraction of the R&D being spent on batteries.
If you told teams they had 200kg min for fuel, engine, motor, and battery and left the rest up to them teams would not be using motors and batteries. From a racing pov they slow the car down.
The electric motor has been around longer than the combustion engine, there’s no major breakthroughs to be had there either. The only piece that to innovate on are batteries. Currently batteries are not energy dense enough for f1, fe cars are slower than f3 cars.
Technology making cars faster is what f1 is about. The v10 made 1,000 hp and weighed 120kg, the motor & engine in today’s cars make about 1,000hp but weigh close to 200kg when battery, motor, and engine are considered.
The v10 may be dead as a passenger engine but for a race engine it’s still superior.
Electric motors and batteries have less performence per kg compared to an engine and fuel. If rules were changed and teams were allowed 300KG for an engine, fuel, motor, and battery you’d see teams use motors and batteries even less than then they do now.
Selling Ferraris at huge markups to have a v10 engine in it seems like a good reason. They could call it the Le Ham.
F1 cars weigh 800kg without fuel. Fully fueled, they’re heavier than FE cars.
Current f1 cars with heavy hybrid systems are. F1 cars without those weight 605 kg.
You will like NASCAR they use heavy cars and pass each other back and forth all the time.
Then follow one. F1 clearly isn’t for you then. Good bye.
F1 is getting lighter, once they get rid of the fat pig hybrid system they be much lighter.
The power decreases by the radius squared. A 100mhz pulse transmitted with 1 peta watt of power over 320 km with 30 dbi of antenna gain will have 5.5 mega watts of received power. I’m pretty sure plasma generation will happen at those power levels which will stop transmission all together. Physics gets weird at high power levels.
OK, cool. Still not 300kg more than a FE car like you claimed. Seems your source is a donkey.
I see you’re bad at math 856 - 605 = 251 which is nearly 300kg.
My source is Mario Illien. If Mario misspoke, send a letter of complaint to:
Got caught in a lie, claim someone else told you that but don’t give a source.
Anyhow: FE has no problem producing exciting races with actual overtakes in Monaco.
If overtakes are your metric for a good car than NASCAR cars are for you, they have hundreds of overtakes at Daytona.
His approach for a change this is fully electric propulsion with a very simple and much much lighter ICE as generator and relatively few battery cells. This is somewhat similar to the approach of Audi RS Q e-tron.
I personally prefer fast light cars but if the nissian leaf racing league is your jam more power to you.
Formula 1 2025: Minimum weight WITHOUT driver and fuel: 800kg (Source)
1st 800kg is with the driver source
2nd I’m not using the minimum weigh of an F1 car with the heavy pig hybrid system, that weight is 605kg. Source
The lie is that the hybrid system in its current form is what makes F1 cars heavy. That’s factually not the case. It’s 20kg out of 800kg.
Was this where you got that claim. ES weight is 20-25kg, 7 kg min for the mgu-k and ERS min of 30.6, that doesn’t include extra weight in transmission for hybrid system, wiring, ES safety system, or extra weight for battery and mgu-k mounting.
Formula E times appear close because the tracks are different, take Monaco which is the same: F1 1:10.2, FE 1:29.7, F3 1:24.9
Of the big lies the competitors to electric propulsion successfully spread is that hybrid is what’s making the engines heavy. It’s not. In F1 the ICE is over 100kg without the energy store (=fuel) whereas is hybrid unit is 20kg including energy (=battery).
In F1 the hybrid electric system is ment to augment the ICE, could not be soley deployed for a whole lap, or have the power to reach top speeds on a long strait. Comparing the two is intellectually dishonest.
The formula E cars have less range, lower top speed, and weigh almost 300kg more. It’s not a conspiracy, it’s where battery technology currently is.
Marko got a hard on for Lawson because he was on Marko’s approved nationality list and overestimated his capability. Their arrogance blinded them to how shitty their car is and how difficult it is for an inexperienced driver to handle. They shit the bed and are lying it, it’s too bad they pulled Lawson into their slurry pit.
To be fair to Ferrari most of their blunders are strategy related, driver wise Barrichello was their worst pick in the last 25 years.
Boeing has put a bunch of flight hours on the experiential version, how well that translates to a production version who knows. If LM doesn’t challenge then it’s pretty clear Boeing’s prototype was significantly better.
A human can’t handle negative Gs, a computer can. That alone gives uavs a huge maneuver advantage.
Yes, if you imagine the vehicle as covered in a mirror, areas where you could see yourself will have the highest return. Shape is the most important thing with stealth.
The canards are probably visible for 270 degrees by a ground radar, the tail probably around 90.
Breaks in continuity of the skin will cause issues. Canards are huge breaks, you go from air to a conductive surface back to air.
Fast cars are spectacle, slow heavy ones are not. It’s why semi truck racing ia less popular than f1.