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You are a Williams engineer. Your job is to look at the Sky Sports feed because you can't even afford to pay a cute girl with a camera to sneak into the garage of Ferrari or Mercades and find out how to make your gay car be less gay. Your mechanics die every week because they haven't eaten in months. "Aerodynamic Simulation" means looking ahead of you when you sigh. How do you save the company?
▶ No.940180>>940185
>>940177 (OP)
Make the car faster
▶ No.940184>>940189 >>942742 >>949968
>>940177 (OP)
Put all my efforts into designing some very useful feature and share it with Ferrari, Mercedes, and all the other actually competent engineering teams.
Tell them its free to use and modify. Add into the fine print an agressive patent-left license which forces them to open up all the secret technologies they've built into their autos.
Copy it all and then undercut them by building cars relatively cheaply (no R&D required) to which ever consortium of companies want the advertising.
Ferrari and Mercedes and the other companies that invested seriously into developing their F1 cars decide it isn't worth the investment since everyone now has the same performance and features, and pull out of F1.
I send Richard Stallman an email written is Spanish informing him of how I've brought freedom the F1 industry. The industry itself stagnates as there are no more competent engineers working on it to improve the technology.
/tech/ praises me for the rest of time.
▶ No.940185>>941751
>>940180
Despite Sergey Sirotkin having more experience, Lance Stroll believes he's qualified to use this increase of 200bhp since he's 19 years old now and an adult and also his dad pays Williams millions of dollars so his son can go bruum brummmm. He crashes into Kimi Raikonnen at 360 km/h and both die instantly. The country of Finland is mildly unhappy but mostly drunk.
Play again?
(Y)es (N)o
▶ No.940186
Drop F1
Start building LMP2s
▶ No.940187
Williams dies with Sir Frank
>putting w*men in charge of anything
▶ No.940189
>>940184
>Tell them its free to use and modify. Add into the fine print an agressive patent-left license which forces them to open up all the secret technologies they've built into their autos.
This is almost literally what Renault did to Red Bull, but Red Bull had to pay for the engines obviously. And Red Bull is top 3 while Renault is still shit lol but Renault has the best livery
▶ No.940192>>940194 >>940195 >>940494 >>941702
Get all the various manufacturers together and declare a 10-year period where new technology can not be introduced to the sport. Define a new set of specs based on the 1970s F1 car and introduce rules like all shifting must be done with a classic clutch/stick device so steering wheels don't cost a million dollars a pop. Reduce driver salary, fire all the rich fag boys, and hire a bunch of rally drivers Scandinavia. Ban the roll cages and other safety devices and put the life of the driver back in his own hands. Allow contact between cars again and get rid of "race control". Replace qualifying with heat races. Mandate old school bias-ply tires and introduce NASCAR style pitting. Make race length at least twice as long. Bring back old track configurations with hairpin/death corners. Publicize the death and drama of the sport as drivers start dropping like flies again.
▶ No.940193
>>940191
It's nice but black and yellow is superior. Maybe I have detachment issues... (not my actual bike but close enough)
▶ No.940194>>940196 >>940202
>>940192
Some of your ideas are awesome, some are retarded. I'm sure you're saying all of these ironically which just illustrates how stupid F1 is anyway.
▶ No.940195>>940197
>>940192
>Bring back old track configurations
I wish
▶ No.940196>>943053
>>940194
(samefag)
If I could just extrapolate it, let's do Group B with 80's F1 cars. It's time-accurate and fuckin mental.
▶ No.940197>>940198
>>940195
Spa is better now than it was then. 1v1 me.
▶ No.940198>>940199
▶ No.940199>>940201
>>940198
no shit I'm talking about old tracks being better than newer "safer" versions in general
▶ No.940201
>>940199
Some of them were, Like Hockenheim where the forest was part of the legend, now the circuit barely gets near the forest.
▶ No.940202>>940208
>>940194
>I'm sure you're being ironic
I'm not, a real driver would hop in such a machine for free and a real fan would risk death to see it. For example, NASCAR should get rid of the restrictor plate at large tracks. Let the pussies sit 20 rows back and the real fans can sit in the front row and hope to catch a survivor (like a stock car going 250mph).
▶ No.940203>>942455 >>949970
Rice the F1 car with anime girls, install gentoo, remove botnet and install music player with FLAC support for the driver, so that he can listen to the eurobeat to make him drive faster. We must be careful to use -systemd and -pulseaudio USE flags to prevent adding bloat that could slow us down. The driver's interface on his driving wheel would utilize dwm tiling window manager with CLI tools for displaying essential vehicle parameters. Customized keybindings would allow fast and efficient parameter tuning via custom keyboard daemon running in the background. A cron task would post stats on /tech/ every minute, allowing us to monitor car's performance in the control room. With all proposed changes we should easily be able to win and get more sponsors.
▶ No.940204>>940209
They've already reinvented the wheel so it's just a matter of using it. Using spherical wheels would completely revolutionize cornering.
But looking at the regulations they wouldn't be allowed
>The wheel must be attached to the car with a single fastener. The outer diameter of the fastener must not exceed 105mm and the axial length must not exceed 75mm. The wheel fastener may not attach or mount any part to the car except the wheel assembly described in Article 12.8.1.
▶ No.940208
>>940202
>I'm not, a real driver would hop in such a machine for free and a real fan would risk death to see it.
Lance Stroll is neither.
▶ No.940209>>940212
>>940204
Don't worry. Just be Ferrari if you want to skirt the rules. Oh your spherical wheels on your 18DoF craft won the race? Ok we'll look into it next race, but you still get the points. Did you see the bullshit Ferrari tried to pull with their "side mirrors" earlier this season?
▶ No.940494
Find a way around ground effect regulation.
>>940192
The ideas around prohibiting shit from costing millions of dollars are good. It lowers the cost of entry and makes the sport actually drive innovation on the streets instead of making tech that will never go anywhere but other racecars.
▶ No.940499
lots of rgb leds and a fast looking logo
▶ No.940551
>>940177 (OP)
Build a car so bad that it kills Lewis Hamilton after somehow convincing him to drive for us. It's like pottery.
▶ No.941702
>>940192
Bring back barnstormers.
▶ No.941751>>941786 >>944815
>>940185
>and also his dad pays Williams millions of dollars so his son can go bruum brummmm.
You realize that's literally every F1 driver right?
▶ No.941786
>>941751
It's literally 99% of all racecar drivers. The other 1% are the few who are actually in it of their own will. And without a ton of skill to get sponsorships as well as their passion for racing they'll always be limited to one shitty car and spending all their remaining dayjob shekels on new tires.
▶ No.942455
>>940203
>not getting rid of fuel injection, the ECU and all other onboard electronics to prevent any and all botnet infiltrations
>not wanting to hand-crank the 30hp 4-stroke diesel engine of your horseless racing carriage
>not removing seatbelts, windshields, helmets and replacing them with leather caps and aviator goggles+prussian mustaches
>not installing a micro-record player driven by the crankshaft so the drivers can listen to laser-printed raw analog eurobeat converted from pristine FLACs
It's like you don't want to have fun.
▶ No.942742
>>940184
GPL-accurate. Well done anon.
▶ No.942848>>942959
>could we put f-1 engine on our formula 1?
▶ No.942959
>>942848
>there will never be ground effect vehicle racing tournaments
▶ No.943053>>943092
>>940196
>If I could just extrapolate it, let's do Group B with 80's F1 cars.
This is a great idea but I have a better one. Lets just bring back Group B.
▶ No.943092>>943271 >>943305 >>943879
>>943053
>Lets just bring back Group B.
This, and while we are at it lets also get rid of 95% of the F1 rulebook and return to the glory days of 70s and 80s F1 where you had 1300hp turbo engines, 6 wheel cars, and cars with fans that sucked them to the track.
▶ No.943271>>943305 >>943972
>>943092
There's a lot to be said for this. All the rules since then created a rigid formula and destroyed innovation. It would be better to have simply restricted each car to a fixed quantity of fuel for the race, and permit free innovation in engines etc.
▶ No.943305
>>943092
>>943271
Just go with a box rule like they do with some sailing classes.
If the car fits in the box, it's allowed. Have some sane safety criteria, and things like caltrop dispensers are a no-go obviously.
▶ No.943879>>943928 >>943972
>>943092
Holy fuck why was this forbidden?
What the shit? I might give a shit about race cars if they were cool again like that
▶ No.943928>>943972
>>943879
Too many people were dying and when some spectators finally died it was decided they wouldn't continue with Group B.
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=INwqyPct8qY
▶ No.943972
>>943879
>Holy fuck why was this forbidden?
Innovation trumps money so F1 teams like Ferrari which have massive budgets but not a lot of innovative skill pressure the FIA to regulate everything heavily. When everything is regulated money means everything since you just pay a shitload of people to find tiny improvements you can make in order to gain your advantage as well as hire the best drivers so your competitors can't.
The fan car I mentioned, it used a fan attached to the gearbox to move air from underneath the car and create a vacuum which sucked it to the track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B294RfWj1QE
The 6 wheel car was to try and get better aerodynamics by using 4 smaller wheels at the front to achieve the same grip with a smaller frontal cross section.
>>943271
>All the rules since then created a rigid formula and destroyed innovation.
Rules and regulations in general stifle innovation in basically every creative and economic endeavour one can think of.
>It would be better to have simply restricted each car to a fixed quantity of fuel for the race, and permit free innovation in engines etc.
The better solution would be to actually restrict fuel tank size since the most costly thing in racing is pit stops.
>>943928
Actually group B only had a few deaths and they weren't spectator deaths but driver deaths which caused it to be banned. Whats more is that those deaths could have been avoided with some simple change to he safety regulations, current WRC cars are safe enough for the drivers to have survived the crashes that killed the group B drivers.
▶ No.944052>>944059 >>944701
>>940177 (OP)
>You are a Williams engineer. Your job is to look at the Sky Sports feed because you can't even afford to pay a cute girl with a camera to sneak into the garage of Ferrari or Mercades and find out how to make your gay car be less gay. Your mechanics die every week because they haven't eaten in months. "Aerodynamic Simulation" means looking ahead of you when you sigh. How do you save the company?
Put fuel in the tyres not the tank. You need a wheel, engine, and a driver to get around the track - everything else is superfluous. Look at the ancient wing mirrors still being used. Don't designers read and recite the design regulations while they sleep? F1 requires thinking inside of a box, inside of a box, but winning doesn't - and that's where your problem lies.
▶ No.944436
Side skirts were the steroids of F1. There needs to be a "do what the fuck you want" league so we get F-Zero, just like there needs to be a "create a mutant" league of baseball. In before /pol/'s accurate racial commentary.
▶ No.944439>>944494
Why don't they simply set a cap on the maximize amount of spending a team can put into their car?
▶ No.944494
>>944439
They would find some gay loophole like making the car cost $1 but giving the pit crew $1,000,000/year salaries.
▶ No.944551>>944555
>>944529
>Holy fuck lmao
You sound just like someone from 1959 who heard the engines were going to be put behind the driver.
▶ No.944555>>944560
>>944551
The chassis isn't under constant friction and doesn't tend to puncture at high speeds. Putting fuel in tires is fucking retarded.
▶ No.944560>>944561 >>944630 >>944702
>>944529
>>944555
>Putting fuel in tires is fucking retarded.
To someone devoid of creativity, yes certainly - because you assume you are putting fuel into a current (and as I see it wholly ancient) tyre design.
Fuel in the tyres acts as a heatsink under braking, thereby increasing the braking efficiency. The thermal transfer lowers the fuel viscosity throughout the system, and the pre-heated fuel increases the combustion efficiency, which increases the power, and run time on a given fuel load. Designing an engine and fuel tank around the tyre also increases power transfer efficiency as there are losses in power transmission through the axle.
Innovation doesn't come from things you see as 'normal' by definition.
▶ No.944561>>944581 >>944630
>>944560
There are further benefits that you could essentially have 4 engines (as one might view it with present day thinking), one in each wheel.
The engine system is currently centralized - rather than distributed, with say 3V/wheel.
▶ No.944581>>944586
>>944561
>4 engines in each wheel
Might as well turn the "tyre" into a self-charging battery then.
▶ No.944586
>>944581
KERS / ERS already done
▶ No.944630>>944733
>>944560
Tyres deflate as you consume fuel
You still have to figure out how to extract a fluid from a tank rotating at thousands of rpm
It won't heatsink shit as they're not using drum brakes and the discs are separate from the wheel
You don't want warmer shit as they're on the edge of autoignition, and you don't want autoignition on a gasoline engine.
>>944561
>3V/Wheel
The fuck is a V
You two, don't talk to me or my fiero ever again
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▶ No.944702>>944705 >>944733
>>944560
>run over pebble
>car explodes
>brake too hard
>car explodes
>tire tread wears out
>car explodes
>gets bumped into by other car
>both cars explode
>mechanic's shoe catches on tire
>car explodes
>tire comes off and flies into the stand
>spectators catch fire
▶ No.944704>>944733
Put the engines inside the fuel inside the tires for extra cooling.
▶ No.944705>>944733
>>944702
>low on fuel
>tires go flat
>can't move
>get passed
>lose position
>get rear ended
>car explodes
▶ No.944720>>944728 >>944733
ultimate F1 unlimited design coming through
▶ No.944728
▶ No.944733>>944755
>>944630
>Tyres deflate as you consume fuel
Wrong assumption based on outmoded thinking
>You still have to figure out how to extract a fluid from a tank rotating at thousands of rpm
Wrong assumption based on outmoded thinking. Even in today's F1 does it look like the entire engine rotates with the tyres to you?
>>944702
>run over pebble
>car explodes
>brake too hard
>car explodes
>tire tread wears out
>car explodes
>gets bumped into by other car
>both cars explode
>mechanic's shoe catches on tire
>car explodes
>tire comes off and flies into the stand
>spectators catch fire
historical thinking pattern detected.
>>944705
>>low on fuel
>>tires go flat
>>can't move
>>get passed
>>lose position
>>get rear ended
>>car explodes
yesterdays thinking for tomorrow problems
>>944704
>>944720
getting closer
Currently the entire engine system is centralized, the seemingly crazy suggestion I made about the "fuel in the tyre" is part of a distributed engine system. You still have one engine, but it is intelligently spread across the entire car. This allows you to distribute the weight across the entire frame for improved handling characteristics, and also effectively change the engine with a simple wheel change. There are no losses in power transfer to the wheel, as the power comes from the wheel.
Just so you know I'm not a larper, though you probably still wil think that anywyal There was a major change in the design of F1 car bodies that still continues to this day, I predicted that change years before it occurred.
▶ No.944755>>944790
>>944733
>Currently the entire engine system is centralized, the seemingly crazy suggestion I made about the "fuel in the tyre" is part of a distributed engine system. You still have one engine, but it is intelligently spread across the entire car. This allows you to distribute the weight across the entire frame for improved handling characteristics, and also effectively change the engine with a simple wheel change. There are no losses in power transfer to the wheel, as the power comes from the wheel.
Don't some EVs do that already?
▶ No.944790
>>944755
It's close to an electric motor in each wheel, so quite likely, yes.
▶ No.944804
each of those wheels would easily cost at least a thousand dollars. it will never happen.
▶ No.944811
I would hire two shit drivers who pay money for the seat, then I would put the least amount of money possible into the car to save up for next season. Then I pay some russians that are friends with my shit driver to kidnap Adrian Newey and force him to work for me. When the season is over, I would put all my money into motherfucker of a car and hire God Jesus Kubica to drive my car.
▶ No.944815
>>941751
Kimi's parents had to shit in the woods because they didn't have enough money to buy both a gokart and an in-house toilet, not every driver is rich
▶ No.949968
>>940184
/thread final solution
▶ No.949970
>>940203
And you were doing so well with the anime grils opener anon. Sad tbh.
▶ No.950441
>>940177 (OP)
open books about fluid mechanics, it might help, not completely tho
▶ No.950802