cobrastang Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Im gonna take the car down and the tent,havent been for a couple of years but think this year is gonna be good.The supra will look really cool crawling through the campsite.Any other members thinking of going? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Lot of money for a boring parade of ugly car's;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merckx Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 We normally go every other year but I've been getting bored with it for some time now. The entertainment other than the race is pathetic. No Tornado fighter doing a low and very loud flypast anymore. No Renault people carrier with the F1 engine driving around the circuit anymore. No Batman car driving around the circuit anymore. No motorbike display riders anymore. No Mini stunt drivers anymore. The Red Arrows become boring when you've seen them a few times. Parachute display team. The organisers have got no imagination at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_jekyll Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 iv got my tickets , i love it , its worth every penny just for the sound of those things imho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLicense Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Lot of money for a boring parade of ugly car's;) How rude! A parade it may be, but I can think of at least one car that I think looks pretty good... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitesupraboy2 Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 How rude! A parade it may be, but I can think of at least one car that I think looks pretty good... ..........The virgin car Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 I wouldn't spend that much money on it, but it is definitely worth going at least once, even if just to qualifying, just to hear the noise they make! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLicense Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 ..........The virgin car Didn't look so good at the end of Bahrain... 2 x DNF. I was chatting to a mate of mine at Willies. They reconed that in CFD they had found a component that would give them 200lb's extra downforce. He said there was quite a buzz around the place (bearing in mind they have about 2860 lb's of downforce total). So they eagerly built the component for the wind tunnel model and awaited the results.... -180 lbs. So how do you guys think a car that's wholly devised using CFD is going to fare over a seaon? It's brilliant right up to the point where you cock something up because it's very difficult to be able to see if you have cocked something up, and if you have, what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 I'll be watching some paint dry, it's more exciting. F1 is on its death bed, IMO, without the TV audiences it will wither. There's too much wind tunnel racing (sorry Tony, nothing personal), and that's where the on track positions originate from. Indy are having a radical re think, the Ben Bowlby penned delta shaped car is quite extraordinary. Fans don't care about a couple or more seconds a lap slower cars, they want to see RACING. Colin Chapman came up with a wonderfully simple and cost effective performance equaliser by suggesting all fuel is metered through a flow orifice, given this metered supply you can do what you want, engine wise. Turbo, N/A, rotary, regenerative devices, blah blah. It was poo pooed at the time, now the Indy car people see its relevance to eeking out fuel efficiency and curtailing irrelevant engine development in these "green" times. You'd think it was a new idea.... The Bowlby car has no wings, it uses ground effect, and allegedly suffers little downforce degradation when following another car closely. I still can't believe something with such a narrow front track and modest tyre section will handle properly though! http://www.racecar-engineering.com/news/cars/442165/delta-wing-indy-car-2012-concept-revealed.html http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/indycar-inside-the-delta-wing-project/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_jekyll Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 that surly cant handle atall. i mean look at it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 It LOOKS all wrong but it's a very rear weighted car, statically and aerodynamically, so the front tyres don't have the same loadings as a conventional car. To say it won't work at all is to say Ben Bowlby is an idiot, which he plainly isn't. I agree, it LOOKS wrong and like something out of a comic It also looks fresh and interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_jekyll Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 i suppose so , but sometimes its hard to accept something that looks all wrong and is contrary to everything you have ever be told is rite will work , bus as said these are clever guys that know more than i ever will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobrastang Posted March 19, 2010 Author Share Posted March 19, 2010 £120 quid for 3 days of racing and a concert isnt expensive if you break it down.also Its good fun back at the campsite in the evenings as well.Im looking forward to it...I will miss the caravan but cant take the supra and the caravan supra+tent wins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
formatzero Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 Been a big f1 fan for years but it seems those making the regs up have lost the plot.I'd rather see a return to the turbo cars where you can turn up the wick to get by the usual road blocks and then manage your fuel to the end,no overtaking is killing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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