09-10-2023, 09:13 AM
Good stuff. Glad to see some new names.
What did [USER=581]@Bruce[/USER] do to get a DQ on lap4?
The front and rear tyres are not an identical compound (or construction?) - the point is, anyway, that the rear is not just a scaled up version of the front. Think back to the 6-wheel F1 cars of the 70s where (allegedly) one of the reasons they went out of fashion was that the development of the smaller tyres failed to keep up with the larger ones everyone else was using…
I’ll take a look at the pit-stop spec - it was set very early in the development of the car (early v1.x) and may include a random element for some changes (this is normal in rf2 otherwise all pit stops would be identical). Might be that the random element is rather more generous than other vehicles.
See how you get on with the KERS - personally I thought Istanbul was quite a slippy track and the gradients on some of the corners were very challenging for KERS - the track layout also didn’t give a particular benefit to deployment.
I don’t think we want to make continuous changes to the car during the season, but if anything does need attention given the sudden increase in miles under the belt and with a wider range of driving styles, we could bring a mid season update…
What did [USER=581]@Bruce[/USER] do to get a DQ on lap4?
The front and rear tyres are not an identical compound (or construction?) - the point is, anyway, that the rear is not just a scaled up version of the front. Think back to the 6-wheel F1 cars of the 70s where (allegedly) one of the reasons they went out of fashion was that the development of the smaller tyres failed to keep up with the larger ones everyone else was using…
I’ll take a look at the pit-stop spec - it was set very early in the development of the car (early v1.x) and may include a random element for some changes (this is normal in rf2 otherwise all pit stops would be identical). Might be that the random element is rather more generous than other vehicles.
See how you get on with the KERS - personally I thought Istanbul was quite a slippy track and the gradients on some of the corners were very challenging for KERS - the track layout also didn’t give a particular benefit to deployment.
I don’t think we want to make continuous changes to the car during the season, but if anything does need attention given the sudden increase in miles under the belt and with a wider range of driving styles, we could bring a mid season update…
