Comments on: How new rules will change 2010 F1 cars

By: Kalvir

Kalvir — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:35:46 +0000

Probably the best build up to the F1 season in years starring Alonso, Hamilton, Button, Massa and the return of Schumacher(and Senna!) , which to be honest was very, very disappointing due to the rediculous no refuelling rule!

This will result in no over-taking during the race, apart from the start and during the end where the car becomes lighter.
If this continues, F1 will lose viewers and will have to be forced to change the rule.

By: timei

timei — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:51:17 +0000

…hail F1!!!…keep up the outstanding effort…and PLEASE..DON’t EVER ALLOW NASCAR principles to creep in to our glorious racing heritage…they’ve(NASCAR)wrecked the honor of racing in America…for the sake of sensationalism/marketing/and the almighty $$$$….yes money greases the wheels of progress..as it well should..and is needed…but American politics/business/industry have ALL succumed to greed…be careful..keep F1 honorable..because honor left America some time ago…America is now a wasteland..and may never recover..she doesn’t deserve it..she’s been good to us..and we’ve systematically destroyed her..we should be ashamed..yet we choose to have more than we need..and $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$…!!!…(and NASCAR)

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:06:51 +0000

I’m not sure if budget restrictions is really the reason refueling is banned. I mean, does it really cost that much to operate two refueling rigs?
And I don’t see how banning refueling will promote overtaking. They’re saying that with refueling allowed drivers would rather overtake in pitstops. Isn’t this all part of the strategy? Are they saying that race strategies are making F1 ‘less entertaining’?
And I hope they are not planning to cut the number of laps just to make this happen.

Although, its a bit too late for complaints, the cars are already launched, and the season is less than 2 months. I hope this year’s rules won’t make F1 a big dull boring race…
Lets hope for a good Formula One season!

By: nathan

nathan — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:56:59 +0000

i can see why they have implimented the refueling ban but will make the cars slow and clumbsy also cause of the cars being slowly any race that has more than 1 safty care if more likely not too finnish in the 2 hour time limit for a race the f1 cars in 2009 where slower than in 2004 so with the new fuel tank that ads more too the time for the race longer time too speed up and slow down gonna be interesting too see what happens if an acident happens at the begining of the race say at china when the cars are reaching 150mph into the 1st corner lets hope the fuel tanks are shatter and bullet proof

By: oneillds

oneillds — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:01:35 +0000

Finally catching up on the new rules.

From a pure physics point of view: no refueling stops means heavier cars, double the KERS output to get up to full speed, decrease the wings to lighten downforce, make the front tires smaller, and remove tire pre-heaters so they are cold going into the first turns. Newton says a body in motion tends to stay in motion.

Hope the brakes work better than before.

By: Jarred

Jarred — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:58:00 +0000

Thats exactly what I was thinking, they will need the fuel rigs to refuel after practise and qualifying so I don’t see the advantage there really unless they plan to refuel the cars manually using petrol cans.

By: rtc firestone

rtc firestone — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:32:24 +0000

we first noticed at the temporada in argentina in 1971 that if you left the wheels on the pit lane wall in the sun they got quite close to operating temperature. we then put the tires on jimmy’s car and he said they came in straight away. Racing was a lot more exciting with cold tires, to see 24 cars smoking tires off the line, and less first corner accidents.

By: Iann

Iann — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:42:14 +0000

I guess refueling ban would make almost all of the teams to run on a similar race strategy, which I think will be a bit sad. Still, I’m looking forward to how the teams will outwit each other now that they’ve sort of leveled the playing field.

By the way, does anyone have details on 2010′s car design rules? For instance the dimensions and general look?

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:07:00 +0000

Instead of thinking about a re-fuling ban I would propose to move these cars to electric motors and really invent some future for cars in general. The technology is there to make them go fast. And we might end up with solid technology for street cars.

By: dwp

dwp — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:12:47 +0000

Current rules do not allow 4wd and I think changing them will be hard based on cost and considerable protests by the majority of the teams.