Blancpain GT Series / Discussion topic

It could happen quickly. If F-E wants to make itself relevant they should find a way of developing a battery swap machine. It could be developed at races and then adopted into the consumer market. The marketing would be easy enough since your basically replacing stopping at the petrol station with a high speed pit stop just like in the race series.

Might be a way of getting the major manufacturers to adopt the same technology too if they can have experience with it at races.

 

Oh I don’t doubt that for a second. What I should have been more explicit about stating was that AIUI, the power that F1 ICEs produce has long been constrained not by technological capability but by the rule book. Has it not been the case (I’ve not actually looked this up) that the power output has hovered around 750bhp, give or take, since the early 90s? And that’s not because engine manufacturers have hit some technological limit, so much as the rule makers keep reducing the allowed displacement, fuel consumption etc. It seems to me that the sport’s governing body have a rough upper limit on performance that they try and maintain over time, which I presume is primarily for safety and quality racing, amongst other reasons.

The core of my argument is that if all-electric drivetrains could best any F1 ICE (and I don’t doubt that one day they will) would the ruling bodies even allow them to reach those limits, and even if they did, would it actually make the racing any better?

Performance, as I see it in the long run, is therefore probably moot, it’ll be the environmental, political, legal, and financial considerations that really matter.

Yeah, for sure. I wouldn’t say it’s the ruination of everything, but yes it sure can be as much a blessing as a curse in many cases; sport is definitely falling into the latter category, if not only for the frankly obscene salaries that top sportsmen are paid these days.

To bring this all back on topic, I’ve actually given up following F1 this season and have instead got into Blancpain and the British GT series for the first time. The racing is great; 55-odd beautiful and awesome sounding cars each with up to three drivers, across multiple classes at Monza a few weeks back was a blast!

 

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Hey! What ever happened to hydrogen fuel cells?!?!?!

 

Screw hydrogen fuel cells!

I wanna know why we can't have big-arsed, supercharged, hydrogen combustion engines spitting out nowt but steam and sweet, sweet noise?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_internal_combustion_engine_vehicle

 

That's a good point, Although F1 puts restrictions on the engine they can still develop them to get more performance. But there's not going to be any major jumps in performance any time soon. I guess the switch over point is when engines become slightly redundant next to the cost savings an electric would bring while delivering the same performance.

 

They're around but expensive to buy and run: http://www.nextgreencar.com/fuelcellcars/#q5. They're certainly a viable alternative for race cars - much the same time to refuel as a combustion engine but the car would probably be a little heavier. The only reason they're not more popular on the road is that the infrastructure to refuel them isn't there at the moment.

 

I have an Early Access itch

 

Yeah I spoke to the chemist about that; apparently there is something that can solve it but it has to come all the way from Italy

 

OP updated.
races missing for now

 

Another car this comes with ACC
http://www.dailysportscar.com/2018/05/18/castrol-honda-racing-enter-spa-24-hours-with-nsx-gt3.html

 

The devs already said they didn't know if they could license it even if it took part in Spa24. Don't say things you don't know.

 

Well both the normal Honda NSX and the Acura NSX GT3 seem to be licenseable but on the other side it would be the car I would care the least about.

It's always so important to end forum posts in a semi-aggressive way.

 

Well, perhaps I told to not say things you don't know because one of the devs specifically said that even if it took part in Spa 24 hours, that didn't necessarily mean they would be able to release it for ACC, but you said "Another car coming to ACC".
It takes quite a short time after that for people to say "oh but the devs said the NSX would be in ACC and they were lying" simply because they read a misinformed post and took that as being official information.

 

Really hope this one makes it into the game. Don t really care much for gt3cars otherwise

 

W00ts! CONFIRMED!!1! Thanks Poguinhas!

Sorry, I am a terrible human being. You do make a good point, if a little harshly delivered. Fake news sure can make it half way around the world before the truth even gets its trousers on.

 

Wrong thread.

 

Best Q1 time for Silverstone was a 1.56. I don't think that time's even possible on AC, especially on Hards.

Edit: John Watson just mentioned that the circuit was resurfaced, so that's probably the cause.

 

2018 gt3 cars with 2018 tyres on a resurfaced Silverstone, really no point comparing AC there at all as it doesnt have any of these officially.

Last year best qualy lap was in Q3 1:59.072 so they are considerably quicker this year.

 

Aston OP pls nerf.