Yeah, I loved it and had to share. Fraggle Rock introduced me to the idea of worldbuilding when I was a child. I’m not surprised to see he mapped it all out.
Seriously underrated show. My favorite episode is “The Minstrels” where stoner Jim Henson puppet teaches us that it’s ok to use drugs, it’s just not a good idea to try to depend on drugs to find your true self, you have to do that work on your own.
It isn’t as chaotic as it looks. Going in the pit everybody is prepared and shouldn’t be any problem. Going out there is a mechanic that signals when it’s clear.
Sometimes there are screw ups, of course. Some bad and others quite funny, like when the driver stopped at his old team by mistake!
Red Bull is consistently fast the past few years but that McLaren lit last year was amazing. Especially after the rule changes in recent years to try and slow down the pits for the sake of making sure the wheels are safely attached
Arguably rules and regulations have changed too, to affect this. Back then they also refueled the car during pit stops. This has not been the case since 2010.
I believe that recently they have added a regulation forcing a sort of buffer time between the ready sign and when the car may leave
You can run the car lighter if you can refuel during a pitstop. The extra time it cost to refuel is smaller than the lap time advantage a lighter car gives.
Due to the sports environmental appeal they have moved to much smaller engines, that are way more power efficient than they used to (1.6lit V6 hybrids) . I don’t believe that they actually could run a whole race without refueling, in the earlier eras.
Further more they have added a limit on how many tires they can use per weekend (and per season) as well as how many engines and engine parts. In the “old” days they’d use a brand new engine for qualifying and discard it for a new one for the actual race. I belive that they are down to 3 engines per driver for the whole season.
I should have thought about it, because it’s happened in regular life too: just like regular purpose cars on the street, even Formula One cars have become a lot more efficient and so they can run a lot more with a smaller tank.
It’s amazing how much they’ve improved cars and how it makes cars from the 1990’s appear clunkier (even if they did appear sleek at the time)
Crazy that the pit crew were just wearing shorts and tees and not even a helmet. They act like collisions and fuel spills have never happened before in the pit lane.
This is the lock picking lawyer and today we have a padlock on an airlock. Now, this is extremely difficult due to its location, but the lock itself is nothing more than a master lock that you can just bang on the side here, and it’s open. To show that it wasn’t a fluke…
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