Mr Revhead[RL] Posted March 4, 2005 Report Posted March 4, 2005 well today was my first day at the agp.... wow...... f1 cars..... tv doesnt do them justice.. the noise... no... THE NOISE!!!! these things are LOUD!!! the noise vibrates objects as they go past.... the entire field of v8 supercars doesnt compare to one f1... seriously :D i was so glad for th eearplugs. as at one point i was only 5 or so metres from them as they full throttled past me... awesome!!!! i was also stoked to see the v8s, up close in the pits, seeing the guys iv only ever seen on tv etc.. that was very very cool! managed to spot steve richards, and johnson, seton, radisich and ambrose etc..... :D I'm gunna end it now.... else ill go on all night!! now for some pics....... Ambrose some girls worlds fastest toyota the one on the left wants me.... you can see it in her eyes check out the look on the face of the middle one! there will be more pics over the next coupla days.... and more of cars!!! Quote
irokin Posted March 4, 2005 Report Posted March 4, 2005 Anyone know what the go with Minardi is? Good on em for standing up to ferrari....even though I don't know what its about...lol Quote
kangaroosa Posted March 4, 2005 Report Posted March 4, 2005 (edited) I work in South Melbourne (about 10mins from the albert park track) and could hear every gear change. Awsome sound!! Considering i'm 10 mins from the track and have heaps of high rise buildings in between, i can only only imagine what they are like up close. Not to mention the 2 FA-18's flying over, now that is noisy. Those things shook the factory. Edited March 4, 2005 by kangaroosa Quote
kangaroosa Posted March 4, 2005 Report Posted March 4, 2005 This is the latest that i know of. http://www.smh.com.au/news/Sport/Minardi-g...l?oneclick=true Not meeting Safety Regulations - Pffft They would have to be the safest race car ever (for the speeds they do). Quote
irokin Posted March 4, 2005 Report Posted March 4, 2005 how do they compare to Top Fuel Dragster? mmm 8000hp Quote
irokin Posted March 4, 2005 Report Posted March 4, 2005 worlds fastest toyota I wish to despute your claim warwick :D arent champ cars quicker??? Quote
kangaroosa Posted March 4, 2005 Report Posted March 4, 2005 CART TOP SPEEDS According to the Omega Timing site (omegatiming.com), the fastest : trap speed during the Fontana race was 245.528 mph (395.14 km/h) : by Jimmy Vasser. : Last year at Michigan, Paul Tracy recorded a trap speed of : 256.948 mph (413.52 km/h). The same site gives Adrian : Fernandez a trap speed of 333 mph, but that *has* to be an error. : The top trap speed at this year's Michigam 500 was 249.018 mph : (400.76 km/h) recorded by Richie Hearn. With a Ford motor :D F1 TOP SPEEDS The new (1999) record for F1 is 361.8 km/h = 100.5 m/s by David Coulthard at Monza. The highest lap average speed was 251.990 km/h by Mika Hakkinen during qualifying. This is still slower than the old Rosberg record (Silverstone, 1985: 258.983 km/h). BTW, the modern F1 cars are faster than the +1300HP turbo cars of the 1986 qualifying sessions, which reached about 343 km/h at Monza LE-MANS TOP SPEEDS The highest speed recorded in an European race was at Le Mans: The record for top speed in a closed circuit used to be hold by a WM at Le Mans (when Les Hunaudieres was still a 5 km long straight). at about 405-407 Km/h Quote
Mr Revhead[RL] Posted March 5, 2005 Author Report Posted March 5, 2005 exspensive toys haha stick am indy car and f1 side by side with similar aero and the f1 will be faster.. they are lighter and now have more power :D the f18s are loud.... but the f1s louder... prob cause of the pitch. weather sucked today, so i didnt get many pics.... about the minardis... I'm disgusted at their behaviour... they changed their cars overnight... so they could have been ready with out all the bullshit. sato has an oops williams specs toyota at speed dream field..... minardi in the wet unfortunatly my digi doesnt have the zoom neede, but the full size originals look good :D after qual it looks to be an interesting race... shumi will be well down! so there will be a good fight back i think Quote
irokin Posted March 5, 2005 Report Posted March 5, 2005 shumachers position now depends how tomorrows qualifying lap pans out. He could still come back strong. Certainly not pole unless everyone bombs out big time .....BUT GO MARK!!!! Quote
irokin Posted March 5, 2005 Report Posted March 5, 2005 oh man this is good. The teams are playing FIA for fools. I thought the rule changes were destroying the sport....and my suspicians have been confirmed with the first 2 drivers that were supposed to be qualifying completing an out lap then coming back in having completed NO qualifying lap (basically scrubbing tyres and checking the engine installation on Ferrari 1).... stupid FIA fools Then with the engine change, aero and tyre rule changes which were designed to SAVE money the teams went away over the off season and spent even more money on development and trying to figure out how to get these cars to handle with less aero, having one set of tyres to last a race and make an engine bulletproof enough to last two 18,000rpm engine killing race meetings.... Quote
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