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Okay all you gearheads pay attention the Formula season will one in Melbourne Australia on March 29th of this new year.
Once again I am picking BMW to run in the top three. I also hope that Renualt makes a better showing this year.
So far thirteen races are confirmed and set while there are 4 races that are currently being considered to take place.
I am hoping others will submt details on drivers, races and hot babes.
Racing Girl where are you?
Gives all the details of your favorite drivers of all time.
Gives details on current heartthrobs.
Show us pictures of the car you consider to be the best this year.
Miss Lovely Sail Dear......who is you heartthrob? What about the best driver alive today. What about the best driver on the course today, nevermind the standings, lets take a look at where the drivers stand for all the teams.
Speaking of teams, lets be fair which team do any of you feel is best in the pits. Forget the money bags Ferrari. I am talking about pure knowhow getting the car out of the pits. All we need do s look at past performance.
What about changes to construction, design and tires this coming race year?
Referring to last year, many fans of the F1 circuit knew ever so little about what the rules mean, so lets work on giving details on those also.
As for the hotties, okay lets keep them coming and lets be modest here boys. No rauchy stuff pleeze!
Who can choose right tyres in right place in right time is winner. Tyres keeps your car on asphalt. Enginge is pushing you car out. F1 has 3 different tyres. For rain, for hot weather and for damp weather. Tyres are playing very important role in F1 race. Teams are working around those things just now. Those things will happen now. Before season has even started. Everything depends on todays work. After F1 season has started is too late....
Tyre on Alain Prost's 1983 Formula One racecar
A slick tyre (also known as a "racing slick") is a type of tyre that has no tread pattern, used mostly in auto racing. The first production "slick tyre" was developed by a company called M&H Tires in the early 1950s. It was a drag racing slick. By eliminating any grooves cut into the tread, such tyres provide the largest possible contact patch to the road, and maximize traction for any given tyre dimension. Such tyres are used on all four wheels for road or oval track racing, where steering and braking require maximum traction from each wheel, but are typically used on only the driven (powered) wheels in drag racing, where the only concern is maximum traction to put power to the ground.
Slick tyres are not suitable for use on common road vehicles, which must be able to operate in all weather conditions. They are used in auto racing where competitors can choose different tyres based on the weather conditions and can often change tyres during a race. Slick tyres provide far more traction than grooved tyres on dry roads, due to their greater contact area and softer tread compounds, but typically have far less traction than grooved tyres under wet conditions. Wet roads severely diminish the traction because of aquaplaning due to water trapped between the tyre contact area and the road surface. Grooved tyres are designed to remove water from the contact area through the grooves, thereby maintaining traction even in wet conditions.
Since there is no tread pattern, slick tyre tread does not deform too much under load. The reduced deformation allows the tyre to be constructed of softer compounds without excessive overheating and blistering. The softer rubber gives greater adhesion to the road surface, but it also has a lower treadwear rating; i.e. it wears out much more quickly than the harder rubber tyres used for driving on the streets. It is not uncommon for drivers in some autosports to wear out multiple sets of tyres during a single day's driving.
In Formula One, slick tyres have not been allowed since the 1998 season, yet dry weather tyres are still often referred to as 'slicks' as they have no appreciable tread pattern (having only mandatory circumferential grooves intended to reduce total traction) and similar behaviour in wet weather. In the 2009 Formula One season, slick tyres are planned to be reintroduced.[1]
Drag racing slicks
The first Drag Racing Slick was developed by a company called M&H Tires (Marvin & Harry Tires) in the early 1950s. It was the only company in the world that produced and sold original drag racing tyres. Later, competitors stole or reverse-engineered molds, and began making their own tyres.
Drag racing slicks are typically very large, to deal with the enormous power delivery. For "closed wheel" cars, often the car must be modified merely to account for the size of the slick, raising the body on the rear springs for the height of narrower slicks, and/or replacing the rear wheel housings with very wide "tubs" and narrowing the rear axle to allow room for the wider varieties of tyres. Open wheel dragsters are freed from any such constraint, and can go to enormous tyre sizes. Some utilize very low pressures to maximize the tread contact area, producing the typical sidewall appearance which leads to their being termed "wrinklewall" slicks. Inner tubes are typically used, to ensure that the air does not suddenly leak catastrophically as the tyre deforms under the stress of launching.
"Wrinklewall" slicks are now specifically designed for the special requirements of drag racing, being constructed in such a way as to allow the sidewall to be twisted by the torque applied at launch, softening the initial start and thus reducing the chances of breaking traction. As speed builds, the centrifugal force generated by the tyre's rotation "unwraps" the sidewall, returning the stored energy to the car's acceleration. Additionally, it causes the tyres to expand radially, increasing their diameter and effectively creating a taller gear ratio, allowing a higher top speed with the same transmission gearing.
edit] Cheater slicks
Since completely slick tyres are outlawed on most roads due to their inability to handle wet pavement, the "cheater slick" became a popular item in the hot rod world in the 1960s; a typical slick type tyre, but engraved with the absolute minimal amount of tread grooves required to satisfy legal requirements. Since then, however, tyre development has progressed greatly, so that today's hot rod street cars typically use wide, grooved tyres which perform better than the slicks of the past; while the cheater slicks available today, both for nostalgic appearance of street cars and for competition use in classes where DOT approved street tyres are required, have followed their own line of development, diverging from true slick tyre construction to become a distinct tyre design in themselves.
edit] R compound tyres (grooved slicks)
The development in cheater slick technology has affected the development of tyres for racing series other than drag racing as well. When other forms of auto racing similarly instituted classes which require DOT approved street tyres, some manufacturers similarly began to market tyres which superficially resembled their high performance street tyres, but with the least tread permissible and with very soft, sticky rubber, intended specifically for competition because the soft tread would wear too quickly for street use. These became known, loosely, as R compound tyres. With additional years of progress, this class of tyre has in its turn followed its own line of development, to the point where they have little in common with true street tyres of the same brand. Ironically, this has led to new classes of racing which require not only DOT approval, but also a minimum treadwear rating, in an effort to eliminate the R compound tyres from competition and require "true" street tyres.
edit] Bicycle tyres
In contrast, many bicycle tyres made for street use are slick. Aquaplaning does not present a problem for bicycles due to their narrower width, higher pressure, lower speed, and circular cross section (due to the need to lean the bicycle in turns), the bicycle tyre can penetrate the water layer to contact the road much more easily; in practice, grooved bicycle tyres do not outperform slick tires on wet roads. However, many low and medium performance bicycle tyres have substantial tread depth, because the bicycles they are designed for often find themselves used off road as well, in dirt, gravel, or sand where the tread provides significantly improved traction. In addition, high performance bicycle tyres, although designed for road use only, often have a very fine tread pattern, which appears to provide no difference in performance vis a vis a slick tyre and is only there for marketing purposes and as a tyre-wear indicator. Some grooveless designs have small 'holes' or dimples embedded in the tread; when these are not visible—due to the tyre being worn from use—then it is time to replace the tyre. This is similar to automobile tyres wear-indicator-bars that will contact the road when the tyre is worn to a low tread amount, making the tyre noisy on the road. This is clear not only from direct testing of tyres, but also from the fact that the texture of the road is itself coarser than the supposed "tread" on these tyres.[citation needed]
Upon reading the term "tyre", I'll always think of Indianapolis 2005 and that absolute Michelin disaster. Their tyres were not up to Brickyard standard. 14 Michelin runners had to withdraw after the Formation Lap.
Upon reading the term "tyre", I'll always think of Indianapolis 2005 and that absolute Michelin disaster. Their tyres were not up to Brickyard standard. 14 Michelin runners had to withdraw after the Formation Lap.
Here is black on white. It very obvious that Michelin and Bridgestone are superious. Sometimes Michelin works better. Sometimes Bridgestone. Depends on weather.
Teddy Mayer dies aged 73 Eurosport - Sun, 01 Feb 14:33:00 2009
American Teddy Mayer, the former McLaren Formula One boss who won titles with Emerson Fittipaldi and James Hunt in the 1970s, has died at the age of 73.
From WilmyW's Link ->
Hunt once said the American had fired more champions than most others had hired but Mayer was unrepentant.
"Drivers are just interchangeable light bulbs," he once said. "You plug them in and they do the job."
Following the withdrawal of Honda, doubts have now been raised about the prolonged participation of manufacturers BMW and Mercedes-Benz in Formula One.
Formula One's governing body has proposed further cost-cutting measures that would allow teams to compete in 2010 on less than a quarter of the amount some were spending last season.
Sail wrote: From WilmyW's Link ->
Hunt once said the American had fired more champions than most others had hired but Mayer was unrepentant.
"Drivers are just interchangeable light bulbs," he once said. "You plug them in and they do the job."
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