Formula One
Formula One racing
Just a note to say that the Indianapolis Formula One Grad Prix will be on Fox this Sunday. And unlike years past when F1 has been on CBS, the normal Speed channel announcers will do the race.
Arrested Development is being re-run on basic cable, the G4 network I think. I caught most of the episodes in the original run of the show, but there is so much detailed, subtle comedy in there, I highly recommend watching them again.
In 1966, John Frankenheimer directed Grand Prix, the classic F1 racing movie. The film is a seriously artsy, dedicated effort to capture the world of racing, from the driver's lives to long, realistic driving sequences. Apparently almost all the drivers drove their own racecars (minus one scaredy-cat, meow) at full speed since the director figured fans would know...
This past weekend was my third annual trip to Montreal for the Grand Prix du Canada. 2004 2005 posts here.
I wasn’t able to borrow Emily’s hot new Canon 5D for this trip, so I didn’t take any interesting pictures, but hey, let’s pretend I took this one and it wasn’t some guy named TMWolf from Flickr.
Fans don’t seem to do it as much in F1 as they do in NASCAR, but you can listen to the teams talk back and forth to the drivers with a scanner. Most of the time they say stuff like “Fuel mixture 7 please Fernando” or...
Where was I at six AM this morning?
Watching the first practice session of Formula One’s Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix on Speed Channel.
Okay, it was more like seven thirty due to the wonders of time shifting. But I was still up-and-at-‘em like a kid on Christmas.
This was our first look at all the new cars, new livery, paint schemes, new drivers.
The race is on Sunday at 6am Eastern time. Speedtv.com
(the thing at the right is the track layout)
Thermodynamics 101, brought to you by the warmup sequence of a Formula 1 motor
Here we have an V10 F1 engine being revved hard, without the carbon fiber engine cover, on stands, at night. They manage to get the exhaust pipes to a seriously beautiful glow before they have to shut it down.
Normally you would never do this without either running the car — F1 cars like sharks in that they have to keep moving to keep cool or else they overheat in a matter of ninety seconds or so, engine idle speed is around 8,000 rpm — or having dedicated...
Oh my, that is sexy. The color scheme is only temporary.
Still my biggest interest/concern for the upcoming season is the sound of the new smaller V8 motor. Man I hope I don’t turn into one of those old timers that sits around going “Boy, you should have heard those V10s, now *that* is an engine.” Sigh…
bsw96 posted a photo:
[via Flickr: f1 - Everyone's Tagged Photos]
Neat. Must be a strange feeling to travel so fast in that pose.
BAR-Honda F1 car to run at Bonneville:
BAR-Honda, at the request of sponsor Lucky Strike, has announced their intention to run one of their Formula 1 cars at the Bonneville Salt Flats. The goal is to run a car that’s as close to F1 specifications as possible, aside from aerodynamic trim and the addition of required safety gear such as a parachute. The run is planned to take place sometime in October, with one of BAR’s junior drivers taking the wheel. The team expects the car will do at least 250 MPH.
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Current F1 engines are 3.0 liter V10s. The FIA governing body has decided to move to 2.4 liter V8s or rev-limited V10s in 2006. They site cost-cutting and safety as the rationale, but I’m not thrilled about the change — I worry about the change in engine note.
Cosworth, the ex-Ford engine manufacturer has a little mpeg up on their site of the early version of the new F1 engine revving up to 20,002 rpms. The sound is incredible. You think that it would surely shatter itself in a million pieces at 16,000 by the sound. 20,000 is amazing to hear....
Check out this hand knit Formula One seat cushion with Rothmans and Elf logos. Circa 1989? Not sure.
The guys in front of us at the Montreal Grand Prix have been going to that race for 23 straight years.
The weather report for this weekend’s Formula One Grand Prix in Montreal calls for lots of rain. In past years, I’ve been under-equipped and paid the price in discomfort.
Since F1 races are all weather(*), it might mean a few hours of being rain upon whilst sitting on aluminum bleachers where umbrellas are most unwelcome.
I knew I wanted something relatively hard-core, and got the idea to check out industrial type solutions. Froogle showed up a few items for Carhartt that looked absolutely perfect. They have a coat and bibs made with “50 mm, polyester backed PVC for total waterproof protection”...
I was just online trying to get my flight reservations for the F1 Grand Prix of Canada, but I needed to look up the dates. June 12, 2005
Check out the giant flash image you get when you go to the official site.
How French-Canadian of them to superimpose a Ferrari race car over two naked people?
There’s another version of the wallpaper with just the woman’s back if you really dig the genre: direct link
I cannot conjure the word superimpose without thinking of that Adam Sandler CD thing with the Goat playing football. I can’t find the transcript via Google,...
The other day I read this Tom Friedman editorial, dramatically subtitled “How will future historians explain why President George W. Bush decided to ignore the energy crisis staring us in the face?” It continues on about his “geo-greening” philosophy. Basically he is strongly advocating green technologies to wean our country off oil which he sees as a big part of the middle east problem — that we send so much money there which props up corrupt regimes and prevents real progress from being made in that area. He advocates a gas tax which would fix gas prices near $4 a gallon....
F1 News - Sauber unveil new 'supercomputer.'Sauber has continued its offensive in the field of aerodynamics, as only nine months after the launch of its ultra-modern wind tunnel, the Swiss team has now unveiled a new supercomputer for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) at its headquarters in Hinwil. ‘Albert', as the machine has been christened, is one of the most powerful in Formula One as well as the automotive industry as a whole and is some 30 times more powerful than any one used in the past by the team. The supercomputer was built by the Swiss company DALCO and has...
+ According to Pitpass.com (which has an RSS feed ) Ferrari team manager Jean Todt is engaged to Hong Kong action star Michelle Yeoh.Apparently Flavio isn't the only team boss with lady-skills.
When I saw the crazy leprechaun guy disrupt the men's marathon I immediately recognized him as the same guy who ran on track at Silverstone last year. During that F1 race, the producers of the TV program were cautious to not go too deeply into the guy, they showed the clip a few times, but didn't announce his name or cause or anything. Contrast that to NBC's coverage. They showed the clip a hundred times, said the guys name over and over, tried to read his sign, read the text of his sign from last year. Isn't that exactly why...
[via MSNBC's Week in Pictures]
Nick Schulz writes a blog about the nexus of sports and technology. He wrote a post about how the various sporting bodies were redefining the rules for javelin to keep the distances reasonable. I'm sure there is a logistical concern about keeping them on the field and away from other athletes. But still, couldn't it be a lot more interesting ...Responding to an earlier post on how javelins were modified to make them harder to throw far, a reader named Mark says maybe track and field officials should think in the other direction. He says that javelin doesn't have a...
The New York Times has an article about modern F1 technology. It just skims the surface of the massive amount of technology that goes into the sport.also noted on slashdot[via my brother Kevin]