classic33
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Murray Walker said the same thing regarding the wet weather tyres years ago.
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glasgowcyclist
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Thinking out loud here: let’s say the car is travelling at 180mph, that’s roughly 270 feet per second.
The front and rear axles probably displace different amounts, given that the front moves a lot out of the way before the rear reaches the same point.
80L of water is an average of 20L per tyre and, on a track where they’re needing to use full wets, so maybe 2-4mm of water, I can imagine that a 270-foot stretch of that track, one tyre wide, would easily carry 40L of water to shift.
classic33
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From the manufacturer, Pirelli.
"At 300kph, a single intermediate tyre can disperse around 35 to 40 litres of water per second. That means that a Formula 1 car at full speed on the straight can shift around 150 litres of water per second running on the intermediate. If it's on the full wet, that figure can be doubled. An astonishing amount of water."
https://www.pirelli.com/global/en-w...e-from-slick-to-wet-tyres-in-formula-1-52943/
"At 300kph, a single intermediate tyre can disperse around 35 to 40 litres of water per second. That means that a Formula 1 car at full speed on the straight can shift around 150 litres of water per second running on the intermediate. If it's on the full wet, that figure can be doubled. An astonishing amount of water."
https://www.pirelli.com/global/en-w...e-from-slick-to-wet-tyres-in-formula-1-52943/
FishFright
More wheels than sense
Which explains nicely why no one can see a see a thing in the spray
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Reynard
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That'll have been the UK round which is held in and around the eXcel in London's docklands - the only indoor-outdoor race circuit in use.
AndyRM
XOXO
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Yep, that's the one. Bonkers!
rustybolts
pedalling tediously
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missus lupus has bared her canine teeth and bitten the FIA in the ass while benny the ahrab has got the green flag and been declared innocent . There is also more horner just around the corner . There will be more drama off track in Melbourne this weekend , jeez , WTF ? it gets crazier n crazier
Drago
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It's all starting to get a bit tiresome. It was fun at first, but the bullpois has gone on and on and on...
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
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I thought this weekends race was from Australia not Derbyshire 😀
Drago
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The off daftness is going OTT. Next there will be a hysterical headline that Hamilton isn't really a surly nodder.
rustybolts
pedalling tediously
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Yeah , i think thats the way most people feel about it , lets get back to the racing please
Joey Shabadoo
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Never knew that
Drago
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I bet he now wishes he'd spent it on call girls.
figbat
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I hadn't realised how much driving he'd done - it's a decent resumé.
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