Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "IndyCar Fan Reacts to Why IndyCar is Better than F1" video.

  1. You ate correct down force loaded DOES NOT AFFECT WEIGHT as such. Yes effective force at tyre surface is as if weight were higher. But weight is the MASS under influence of gravity, now while down force, eg 5G equivalent, acts of forces like gravity would it has NOT altered weight. BUT the creating of that downforce has two serious DRAG effects. Firstly the various protrusions, blades, orifices creating the force are associated with air disturbance/flow restrictions, that do make drag. Then the high forces applied at tyres to track alter frictional losses. As far as load on engine, the drag is all that affects that. Acceleration is affected by the vehicle mass, that under gravity, only 1G , weight remains identical and is constant irrespective of the down forces. As far as drivers that say they preffer Indy they appear to be part of the lesser teams, suffering less chance of winning because their team is at lower more restricted budget so less competitive. With Indy, they have equal car to the others, so more driver dependant, so these drivers feel they have higher chance of shining on their performance not on team budget and thus car performance. F1 aims constant advance of technology, and competion is as much in technology as strict driving performance, though without leading driver, pit, reliability, tyre choice for weather and track, so race performance no F1 team can be leading irrespective of basic technical performance, sadly no matter the best technology can not lead if driver and pit team, tyre choices for track and weather, is not leading too, while Indy is competion oriented, purposely making the cars identical, makes the car less a factor, driver and pit team make or brake the racing, beyond failing/reliability of hardware that all racing suffers as a problem. To me all racing can be interesting, but one stylevI have minimum interest in is pure round the oval, banked corners, I like circuits with challenging corners, surfaces and challenges on driver beyond pressing the pedal to the max and holding steering. Lots of gear changes, hard cornering, challenging passing opportunities for me.
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