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2006 Monza Gp Onboard Alonso

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• 2006
• Monza

[futnaw]

what the slipstream ? do we know ?

[nitroboost8765]

Heidfeld has balls of steel! :)

[Blade4613]

take this spanish prick!

[supratt2jzgte]

@Emiins Nowadays, the camera sits way too far forward, and maybe too high as well. It makes the car look wider and shorter. In videos like these, however, the car looks longer and thinner. I think that makes it look faster.

[rapljwop]

@Emiins Well, actually they were faster then than today. Doday we have V8's at 18,000rpm and massive front and rear wings meaning less power and more drag. In 2006 the engines were the first 2.4L V8's for F1 which were at 20,000rpm, the areodynamics were more suited to straight line speed and this was Monza - the fastest circuit on the F1 calander.

[Emiins]

There's something with the camera angle that makes older videos look like if they're going much faster than today. Does anyone know the reason?

[GeneralRushHour]

@BrotherYounis Nope, the air will just get push around the car infront of you.

You need to be doing 150mph atleast, and i don´t think you will save much gas from that anyway because of how the car slices through the air.

Compare normal cars driving on the freeway in rain, and then watch a race in rain on youtube from F1.

Notice how much water get´s up into the air, most of it is rain but from the back wing you can see just how much air is getting transported right up in the air.

[BrotherYounis]

@GeneralRushHour so im 30 mph and right behind a car the slipstreaming effect wont work?? mannn that sucks.

[GeneralRushHour]

@BrotherYounis Not really, unless you are doing pretty high speeds.

Normal cars doesn´t transport away as much air as an F1 car does. Not even close.

[GeneralRushHour]

Awsome Power from the BMW, heard they produced as much as 1.000bhp at Monza and 950 in general. But that was 1 before this.

[GeneralRushHour]

@M0rthyM0rdoR Actually it´s dirty air. Which means basically very little air so by staying behind a car it creates a little pocket where there is very little air resistance.

It is very good for straights but not in corners, which is the main problem for overtaking in F1 (apart from 2010 with DRS and KERS)

The front wing needs clean air to hit the wing so by staying behind someone through a corner you will lose downforce and understeer.

[M0rthyM0rdoR]

@futnaw when a car is behind another, it creates clean air and less air resistence for the car which is pursuit him (something like that)