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WHY WAS IT INTRODUCED?The argument for its introduction is that drivers were abusing the old rule, and there was a lack of consistency at different circuits because of an ambiguous definition of what counted as the track."The rule is a massive step forward," said MSV chief Jonathan Palmer."The FIA rule officially made it OK for drivers to use as much grass or surface beyond the white lines as they could."MSA chairman Alan Gow added: "It's the fairest [option]. You've got to draw the line somewhere on the limit of the track."GREY AREASWhat will constitute "justifiable reason"? What about an incident in a heated, wheel-to-wheel battle in which a driver - having already received a warning - runs wide, but does not gain an advantage?What if the infringement is almost invisible to the naked eye?Such innocuous incidents will be thrust firmly into the limelight this season. And they could become the catalyst for a far greater, long-running controversy.The change will put pressure on drivers to adjust approaches honed over many seasons, and on officials to carefully delineate between clear breaches of the rule and genuine mistakes.It will be fascinating to see how this plays out when UK racing gets back underway in a few months' time.
Proteklog vikenda Martin Kodrić je u konkurenciji od 32 vozača osvojio odlično 12. mjesto u Formuli Renault 2.0 NEC u Monzi.Martin je prvi puta nastupio u Monzi, a za upoznavanje staze je imao samo dva slobodna treninga. Nakon slobodnih treninga u petak su održane i kvalifikacije. Jedini hrvatski predstavnik je zauzeo 26. i 21. mjesto.U subotnjoj utrci je vozio fantastično. Sa 26. mjesta se probio do 12. i ostvario zapažen rezultat. U nedjelju je startao s 21. mjesta i još jednom vozio fantastično, no dva kruga prije kraja utrke došlo je do kontakta s Amwegom uslijed kojega je Martin završio svoj nastup izvan staze. Broj odvoženih krugova je bio dostatan za ulazak u rezultate, ali nažalost umjesto za 12. mjesto, samo za 28. mjesto.U prvoj utrci je slavio Švicarac Deletraz ispred Japanca Sasahare i Francuza Pizzitole. Drugu utrku je dobio Švicarac Jörg ispred sunarodnjaka Deletraza i Nizozemca Schothorsta.Martin je svojim nastupom zadovoljan. U jakoj konkurenciji i na nepoznatoj stazi vozio je bez straha i probijao se prema naprijed iz kruga u krug. Svaka utrka donosi novo, vrijedno iskustvo. Slijedeći Martinov nastup je u Formuli Renault 2.0 ALPS od 8. do 11. svibnja u francuskom Pau.
Glad to be able to catch up again with this project on a different forum!So in essence the car was running a regeneration system like La Ferrari is running? Which begs the question with only charging under braking how long could one run the car at full throttle before the batteries were totally drained. I would imagine its an unlikely scenario unless one were to run the car on hugely long air strip.
Think about it this way. There is no free lunch. KERS recaptures Kinetic Energy that would otherwise be turned into heat energy to brake the car. When racing there is a lot of braking and we were able to recapture about 50 seconds of 50 HP lap after lap. On the road there is not enough braking to recapture so P1/918/ and La Ferrari all use petrol HP to charge their hybrid batteries. The no free lunch part is that when using petrol HP to produce electrical charge there is less overall HP to drive the car so all petrol recharging systems try to charge only when not under full throttle, While P1/918/La Ferrari could pre-charge and run a hot lap they can NOT run at FULL HP lap after lap. On the road we've engineered our system to use petrol HP to recharge when full HP isn't needed but on the track we can switch back from the cockpit to race KERS.So far no other manufacturer has won one of these.
Very interesting, in the sense that the current crop of hyper cars are actually quite "compromised" in the way they are using the battery packs (using HP to charge the packs) but maybe its a compromise that is appropriate for a road car and is probably one of the most singular reasons why none of them could be raced without significant redevelopment. Aside from the fact of course that all road cars are fundamentally compromised to make them suitable for the average owners on the average road.