Is it true, that if a F1 car idles for a long time that it will overheat because the engines need to have all that air going into the engine, like you can not idle the car more then a minute or two.
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Yeah, in a road car when the engine is at idle it will warm, but after a certain piont the thermostat turns on the cooling fan. F1 cars dont have cooling fans, so the cooling system may be functioning, but without any air to cool the coolant you just end up pumping hot coolant through the engine block...in turn the engine doesnt get cooled.
Thats why at hot races you often see the driver in pole position hold up the pack after the warmup lap, so that the time between him getting to the grid and the guy in last is lessened (tjis means the guy on pole is staionary for less time so the engine wont overheat)
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