Look what I got with my time machine....
F1 Technical, May 4, 2020
2021 "green specifications" prototype at Williams's new racetrack.
Today, Williams proudly presented its new racetrack and its car for next year's season.
Note that the asphalt surface at Williams new racetrack is almost indistinguishable from the gravel trap surface (in the background). What actually seems to be a gravel surface is the new regenerative pit stop area, now mandatory at every track. Crash barriers are cleverly disguised as bushes.
The car uses a 1 cylinder, 20 cc, 215.000 rpm engine, rated at 1750 hp. The new V-configuration, with cylinders at a 360 degrees angle, as well as the 6 and a half-keel configuration has brought some theething problems. Williams has been putting pressure on the suspension and body teams to compensate for the underpowered Yugo engines contracted last year.
Frank Williams failure to renovate the contract with Dacia's racing subsidiary was blamed by Marius Thiesenovna, who tried to renegotiate the contract, on Mr. Williams own failure to produce a race-worthy car. He explicitly denied that he had interest on directing the new Dacia's Racing Team, saying "we learned nothing from this guy".
Notice also the blue bucket in the foreground that holds the team's entire year fuel supply. The "Bridgeline" tires you see are the ones they have been using since June, 2019, following the new rules.
Sir Frank hopes to clone and grow two more cars in his bio-lab factory, with little modifications to the monocoque basic DNA design, before December: that is, in time for the critical 2-hour testing period allowed this season. He has great expectations about the recent CRAP (Computer and Robot Aided Physiology) package they are starting to use for the aero desing.
Still fit in the pit
This year, Nelson Piquet IV, Santiago Montoya, the imperturbable Rikki Makkinen, also known affectionately as the "Liquid Nitrogen" man, and the unfatigable Michael Schumacher are the main contendors... It is rumored that Schuey could renegotiate his 12 years contract with the Ferrari-Honda team, previously known as Ferrari-Hyunday, in January, 2021. Schumacher recently broke the record of "most pit stops in reverse during monsoon season".
Michael waved away questions over the italian Giorgio Velocetti, (the qualifying one-lap master) replacing his present partner, the 86 years old Mary Wittingham, housewife from Lancaster, England, citing that "it would be a shock for Ferrari fans to have an italian driver: they are simply not used to it. Russ agrees with me.". Miss Withingham is under intense pressure from british tabloids to qualify for a race under the 140% limit time en vogue before her 200th GP.
Makkinen machinations
Makkinen is falling behind in the championship, after blowing 16 engines in the first three races, failures which he atributed to poor design. Dennis stayed behind Rikki, citing how Montoya has the same lap times of the finn, even if Santiago's pedal-powered car is a little behind in development. Makkinen stated: "I have learnt a lot from Michael". Here you can see the young prodigy at the press conference:
New track on the rack
The new F1 adapted kart circuit of Exterior Baclavia has been redesigned by Hermann Tilke. Some kerbs have been added inside the chicane they put last year right inside the old chicane, which now qualifies as a 15 radius curve. The lonely voice of Jacques Villeneuve, always a rebel without a cause, complaining about the stress the kerbs put on the pilots were dismissed, as the new 850 degrees hairpin should give more overpassing opportunities, as well as the 14 G's capable driver-suits. Mr. Tilke seem to be right, as this year's record of 2 overtakes during the season overwhelms last year record of 1 overtake, warmly remembered and scrupulously analyzed by the fans for the entire year.
The redesign was widely discussed in our forums, where there was an agreement on qualifing Jacques as a "girly-wussie, four-eyes, mommy boy" and dismissing the incomprehensible observations of some ranting members, complaining of the 230 euros spent on the track versus the 4'300.000 euros spent on the paddock spresso machine.
New servers for F1Technical
Following complaints from some forum members (Jason) on the 12.000 icons per message limit of our web hosting, and other complaints from other members (Jason) that after staying in line over 72 hours he was logged out of the forum (he, he. He never saw the hacking coming!), Tomba finally decided to improve the forum servers capacity. Here we see a photo of the server happily humming along while absorbing a 200.000 words post by Ciro "I do not know when to shut up" Pabón and a 300.000 word post by Dave "Big picture" Killens. Notice the "hot" mouse and the upper-left "Enter key". This server "array" has a combined capacity well over 7 kb/hour.
Other news
In other news, F1Technical fans finally signed the "Development Car Concorde Agreement". Manchild posts a legendary 6 pages post on why this is seen by some as an illegal move by Ferrrari representatives... Montezemolo surrenders and finally confess, weeping that he is the Antichrist.
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were used until 2016 in an attempt to reach over 180.000 rpm. The idea was to join the half cylinders in the air right at the exact moment of compresion. This halved the mass that the computer had to control and made inertia one eight of the original complete cylinder. After several major blowups when some defective half-cylinders collided, they were banned.
