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Originally Posted by torqdork
They're slower. Apples and oranges comparing V-10's to batteries but Alonso makes it sound like they're fun to drive at their lower limits, something like his kart. I'm not sure if it'll come down to better car control, most of the grid is pretty good there, rain seeming to be the biggest variable in the past. I think it'll level the field more due to lower physical demands that even got to Hamilton and Button at times last year:
FTA:
Alonso remarked that today’s cars are ten seconds off the pace of those he drove earlier in his Formula One career.
“The cars are slower, nothing more than that I think,” he said, pointing out he lapped Jerez in 1’16 with the V10-engined cars in 2004 and 2005. “I ran today 1’26 so I was ten seconds slower than ten years ago.”
Alonso said the demands of driving Formula One cars have changed: “When you go ten seconds slower it’s not the same in physical point of view as well. These cars are a lot easier than what Formula One has been. There are less G-forces, less speed into the corner.
“But on the other hand there are more parameters to control, there are more buttons on the steering wheel, more criticality in terms of driving or in terms of having control of the car in high speed corners and also in traction. So just different.”
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2014/01/3...rent-less-fun/
I'd only heard of high 700 hp outputs total. Considering that fuel is limited to 100 kg per race, down from 160 kg last year, I wonder how they'll be able to produce well over 1,200 hp for long or at all?
http://en.espnf1.com/f1/motorsport/story/141011.html |
It's far too early to be comparing lap times between engines. It's the very first tests with a very new system. Compare lap times 2 years from now when the engines are perfected and putting out as much power as possible. Jerez under 1:20 is easily within reach of the new cars, it will just take some time.
I think by the end of the 2014 season once the drivers are used to the level of grip, we
could see quali laps comparable to V8 era.