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Does any one know to do the formula, like how many seconds of fuel and how many laps they will be able to go on. For example say if some one is pitting and has 6 seconds of fuel put in, and they are at Spa. How would you come up with that answer to know how many laps they have on that fuel load?
Location: Covilhã, Portugal (and sometimes in Évora)
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Well the fuel pumps supllied by InterTechnik pump 10 litres/second, though if you remove the filter at the end of the nozzle it will pump 12litres/second (though removing the filtre is illegal).
About the amount of fuel a car gets in the tank during a pit stop I usually do (if the pit stop is normal) look at the time the car was stopped...subtract 2 seconds from it (1s for hose in and 1 for hose out)...and multiply by 11...usually I only have a error of 2 or 3 litres from in fact goes in the car (at least the times that I was able to get oficial information, I was only 2 or 3 litres off....though sometimes it doesn't work).
so for example a car stops for 6,7 seconds:
6,7-2=4,7
4,7 x 11 = 51,7 litres
About the fuel consumption 2 years ago it varied between 0,85 litres/km and 0,79 litres/km. (I will confirm this when I get back to Portugal on the 9th of September)
About pit stop stratagies Giorgio Piolas books have a chapter on this and it quite interesting....so if you can take a look.
hehe agreed monstro, I'm doing the exact same thing when I want to know
The only problem is that fuel consumption per circuit variates quite a bit, and I don't really know consumption from circuit to circuit
Location: Covilhã, Portugal (and sometimes in Évora)
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Usually I do an average of 0,8 it gives me a rough idea of the minimum number of km the car will be on track before the next stop! This number is only valid for the amount of gas put into the car at the pit stop....cause I have no idea how much gas there still is in the car! After calculating the number of laps that fuel last I add 2 laps...and this usually gives me a 1 to 3 lap diference between my calculations and the pit stop.
