• ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Wait, so now they never refuel them during pitstops?

    They do the whole race just by filling the tank before the beginning of the race!?!

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        10 months ago

        Wow, so now I’m curious why they didn’t do it in the previous years. I’m sure they refueled cars regularly during pitstops in the 1990’s

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          You can run the car lighter if you can refuel during a pitstop. The extra time it cost to refuel is smaller than the lap time advantage a lighter car gives.

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          Due to the sports environmental appeal they have moved to much smaller engines, that are way more power efficient than they used to (1.6lit V6 hybrids) . I don’t believe that they actually could run a whole race without refueling, in the earlier eras.

          Further more they have added a limit on how many tires they can use per weekend (and per season) as well as how many engines and engine parts. In the “old” days they’d use a brand new engine for qualifying and discard it for a new one for the actual race. I belive that they are down to 3 engines per driver for the whole season.

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            9 months ago

            This is great! Thanks for the explanation!

            I should have thought about it, because it’s happened in regular life too: just like regular purpose cars on the street, even Formula One cars have become a lot more efficient and so they can run a lot more with a smaller tank.

            It’s amazing how much they’ve improved cars and how it makes cars from the 1990’s appear clunkier (even if they did appear sleek at the time)