munudeges wrote:Acceleration in the forward direction and lateral directions. What else? Forward acceleration is building speed on a straight - lateral acceleration is rotating the car's heading through the corner. Simple physics.
Not quite. To rotate the car's heading require's a yaw moment. Lateral acceleration simply keeps the mass tracking a circular path. If you reduce the contact patch forces into a single lateral force, you know nothing about the moments or orientation since you have a point mass model.
Phil wrote:
... but from my understanding regarding the 2014 season and turbos, it's power delievery. In a turbo'ed car, you have a very peaky curve. Torque at the wheels might be similar to last years V8s, but the torque curve and subsequently power delivery most definately won't be.
Because of the power-delivery which will be peaky and deliver 'more torque within a smaller band' (relative to a flat curve spread out more evenly across a wider band) you will have instances where the wheels will spin up significantly, either slipping and producing oversteer. This IMO will make the 2014 cars more snappy / twitchy
What do you mean by peaky torque curve? Or rather, to which curve do you refer? If you mean that the torque/RPM curve is peaky, sure, but what does that have to do with throttle response? All that means is that you have a narrow rev range where you have power and if you fall out of it, you need to up or downshift. Indeed the fact that they will now use 8 gears alludes to that, but that's all; If it's the torque/RPm curve that's peaky... there's no direct relationship between throttle and RPM, other than that more throttle generally means more RPM. A peaky torque/RPM curve does not, except in very extreme cases, make the throttle pedal more sensitive; that's down to the pedal maps, which map pedal position to torque demand.
munudeges wrote:Must be why late, hard braking is such a valued trait.
I'm afraid the best drivers have always braked earlier sweetie and late hard braking is something you learn not to do at a very early age. You're not going to get less lateral acceleration later, and hence wasted time, by braking late and also killing the tyres in the process. It's a sacrifice. You give up one or the other and you err on the side of early braking and managing it from there.
I would argue that there's an "ideal" point at which to brake and relative to that point, braking earlier or later will be slower.
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