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If you could change one thing in F1
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Get rid of all the energy recovery/engine size/fuel efficiency rules.
I want to see what kind of technology engineers come up with when the rules simply say "you get X kg of fuel per race, figure out the most efficient way to use it."
Better yet, specify X units of energy and the teams decide the source: hydrogen, battery, hydrocarbon, etc.
Oh god. Imagine a car powered by uranium...
imagine an F1 car with an Orion drive
I mean...assuming it would be smaller than the track...
Now I'm picturing the ensuing turn 1 carnage after a Fallout car explosion.
Lol there wouldn't even be a circuit anymore. Hell, the entire city would be wiped off the map.
Weirdly enough it would be very slow. Or supersonic in pieces in one direction once.
True. I'd love to see the materials science that would be required to pull that off. Right now, battery technology...isn't great compared to the advancements humanity has made in electricity generation the past twenty to thirty years or so. That, and the current bulk of battery materials are either ethically problematic (e.g., lithium), quite toxic (e.g., nickel), or both (e.g., cobalt).
I wonder if the best option then would be a gas/methanol generator and electric motors.
You’d only need to design a generator for one RPM so no transmission. Instant torque, regenerative braking, and let’s add AWD, active aero, and torque vectoring.
Yes!
A similar idea I keep telling friends is to have one car be a spec f1 car, the other is full prototype no holds barred so long as you stick to whatever the general formula might be like the weight you mentioned. But as few limitations as possible.
One car is innovative and got the constructors, the other is for the drivers and the skill.
I wanna see F1 make innovations!