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All the talk was about superclipping, and I didn't hear unusually high engine power in turns. So I doubtful about this.
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Supper clipping is controversial because it makes the drivers vulnerable at the end of the strait and they don't like it.
you can read this or you can look at the rules directly.
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/arti ... cIpGzoWkY0
[quote]Cars will harvest energy to charge the battery when braking, on part throttle, when lifting off (when a driver lifts off the throttle early – often referred to as lift and coast) or when ‘super clipping’ (when some harvesting happens at the end of the straight when a car is still at full throttle – although this depends on the particular engine map being used, the circuit profile, and the overall Recharge energy allowance for that circuit, which varies as per the regulations).
Most of the time, the Recharge will be automated by use of selectable Recharge maps and targets so braking, part throttle and super clip will all be automated functions controlled by the ECU. The only Recharge mode the driver will have direct control of will be lift-off regen, whereby if the driver lifts off, then they can Recharge. However, doing this will disable the Active devices as well. In contrast, super clipping is still at full throttle and therefore the Active Aero will still be ‘open’.[/quote]
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Super clipping is the fastest way around the track yes, but it has to be shifted in a batte as you are alluding to.
In theory the engine has excess energy or you could say less efficiently used at some points a track and in these points it is more efficient and quicker to use the battery. There are also other points where there is time loss is not great even when you lift off the throttle like coasting and braking areas. So you would take the energy at these points to charge the battery so you can deploy this energy in other more advantageous points of the track. Superclipping is when you go one step further and spend fuel to charge the battery at these points.
In a battle however, track position is becomes high prioty because the driver behind will be hampered and that ideal theorical laptime with superclipping sill never come to fruition so all that goes out the window. The trick is can you hold the attacker back until his tyres give or he himself makes a mistake or run out of energy? That's how the hugely entertaining yo-yo effect happens.
Remember extra harvest with the MGUH? This trick can also be done with the MGUK as well. I think Mercedes has managed to do this to very good degree in the race. (I suspect they have a trick-differential with some high density fly-wheels built in?!but will make a new thread on this).
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There is an onboard where he almost crashed under the SC in another corner. ABsolutely crazy.
