Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Driver61" channel.

  1. PEOPLE ALWAYS GO ON ABOUT NO RULES RACING but a race engineer told me it would never be what people expect as racing is mostly limited by the safety at the track, so in reality it would look VERY similar to what we have today. OR there would be multiple fatalities per race. Rules are there to keep drivers alive - NOT to make cars boring and slow.
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  2.  @Driver61  I felt a great disturbance in the Force as if millions of voices suddenly cried out RED BULL and were suddenly silenced
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  3. I felt a great disturbance in the Force as if millions of voices suddenly cried out RED BULL and were suddenly silenced
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  4. CONTACT PATCH AREA does not directly affect grip on most tires. Coefficient of friction does NOT have "area" in the equation [μ = F/N, where F is the frictional force and N is the normal force] The smaller the contact patch the higher the contact pressure exerted by N so it cancels out. A larger contact path makes the tire LAST LONGER as it spreads the wear over a larger area. Also on super sticky compounds that are actually adhering to the road surface contact path does increase grip.
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  5. WHEN I WAS A KID in the 80's the garage next to me an a JPS Lotus F1 car and an Elf F1 car sat in the back compound with weeds growing through them... The son of the owner had bought them and hill climbed them a bit and lost interest - this is how the world has changed - this was "Woodkirk Garage" in West Yorkshire, not a Ferrari dealership LOL
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  6. PEOPLE ALWAYS GO ON ABOUT NO RULES RACING but a race engineer told me it would never be what people expect as racing is mostly limited by the safety at the track, so in reality it would look VERY similar to what we have today. OR there would be multiple fatalities per race. Rules are there to keep drivers alive - NOT to make cars boring and slow.
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  7. THIS MAKES ME PROUD TO BE BRITISH nutters in a shed doing the insane...
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  8. ACTUALLY - RACING IS PERFECT FOR ROTARY ENGINES its being stood unused and / or being used at low revs and cold they hate. Being at full tilt for 24 hours is heaven for them
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  9. I THINK ITS FANTASTIC you are doing things to help students into the industry
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  10.  @ryanp6138  I never knew that - I dong live in the UK now... In those days olf F1 cars were almost an inconvenience, they cut up one of the Brabham fan cars cos they didnt have space for it. I dont think these met a sticky end, Im sure they are in a collection somewhere. We used to climb over the concrete wall and play with them, but they didn't have seats in them. I was always fascinated for the tyre surface had very clearly been totally liquid, I never understood this as a little kid.
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  11.  @theterriblepuddle1830  - Yeha it does cos failure is 0 so 0.00001% above failure is the tiny tolerance they are looking for. BUt its an unusual way of looking at tolerance I would say.
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  12. WOW interesting - like when I pulled a sticking plaster off and it took my skin off...
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  13.  @rideepicdriveepic weird reply
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  14.  @rideepicdriveepic - I dont - I mostly loath Am3ric4. I was just pointing out a fact that they don't have technical test in most states - which partially accounts for why they unalive in cars 12 X more often than Europeans. But what it does not result in - apparently - are lots of amazing cars. They just drive death traps.
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  15.  @answeris4217 - In Europe you basically get arrested if you put a go faster stripe on your car LOL
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  16. I felt a great disturbance in the Force as if millions of voices suddenly cried out RED BULL and were suddenly silenced
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  17.  @extragoogleaccount6061 F1 is boring - but thats kinda where you end up with all racing. In the same way as profit tends towards zero and entropy increases - racing tends toward boring as speed and power increase and the desire to keep drivers alive increases. what made racing fun in the past was our lack of technical knowledge/lack of materials science and our willingness to sacrifice drivers. If you make racing unlimited we will just program computers to drive the cars in 2024 and take the driver out cos they are the main limitation on the speed. The cars would do 400mph and pull 20G. In 2024 the limitation is keeping the human alive on the track in question - its the way 0-60 times for production cars have become irrelevant. My Merc used to do 0-6 in 4.2 seconds or something but I never did it more than a couple of times cos it was very unpleasant. We have technologically progressed beyond the endurance of the human.
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  18.  @extragoogleaccount6061  On top of what I just said "Different engine configurations and car builds can be made without killing people. " I would make F1 do crazy stuff wiht the engines to try an make it fun again. OK - for the next 4 years its 2 litres 4 cylinders 2 stroke diesels. After that its V12 750cc petrol supercharged. After that its V10 1 Liter 2 stroke sump lubricated 2 stroke forced induction petrol just cos we all want to hear a 22,000 RPM 2 stroke V10 To make things interesting you have to move us back into the area where we dont know what we are doing properly. You have to have a 2 litres 4 cylinders 2 stroke diesels but you can have any aro you want cos its not going to go above 140mph
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  19. THE BEST ENGINE I have ever had was a tuned Opal 2.2 Diesel with a Garrets variable vane turbo on it - it was in an Opal Astra Cabrio I took in part exchange and it was ASTONISHING. It had so much torque it would shear the centre out of clutch plates. Cos the variable geometry turbo, it had the power all the way from 1000rpm to 5,000rpm it just pulled and pulled and pulled. I wanted to buy a Caterham and put this magnificent engine in it but life got in the way. I let a "friend in need" have the car and the proviso they gave it back to me, and we fell out...
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  20. I SAW ONE OF THESE perked up on a public road here in Bulgaria - don't know if it was a replica someone had built - or if a mafia guy had somehow got one...? Or if Peugeot is planing a road-going version?? Not exactly the same - the tops of the wings were solid and it didn't have the roof scoop.
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  21. OH MY GOD - I found out from this video that Ken Block is dead...
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  22.  @nerd_nato564  [I think that is "thermal efficiency" not fuel conversion efficiency]
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  23. HAVE RED BULL NOT CUT THE CHEQUE YET...??? whats holding them up...?
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  24. I THOUGHT MAYBACK were doing this with the engines for airships in the early 1900's...???
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  25. THE BEST ENGINE I have ever had was a tuned Opal 2.2 Diesel with a Garrets variable vane turbo on it - it was in an Opal Astra Cabrio I took in part exchange and it was ASTONISHING. It had so much torque it would shear the centre out of clutch plates. Cos the variable geometry turbo, it had the power all the way from 1000rpm to 5,000rpm it just pulled and pulled and pulled. I wanted to buy a Caterham and put this magnificent engine in it but life got in the way. I let a "friend in need" have the car and the proviso they gave it back to me, and we fell out... It was the most drivable engine I have ever had in any car.
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  26. IVE ONLY JUST REALISED You won't be experiencing any aro - so you WILL be just hanging off the harness straps...
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  27. There arent in most of Am3ric4
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  28.  @rideepicdriveepic - NO you cant. We appear to have got out wires crossed. You said "magine what sort of cars we'd be looking on the streets, were there no technical inspection rules" My point was - probably not that much different as they dont have technical tests in the US and they just drive the same except more dangerously badly maintained. Apparently, people are not that creative 😞 electric cars mean you can make almost any shape car - so what so we make - car shaped cars...
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  29. ​ @extragoogleaccount6061 - I think my main reply got removed by YT in the new completely random censorship purge...
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  30. WOW - A GOOD LOOKING F1 CAR how long since we have seen one of those...???
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