Hello guys,
"Kai M. Radicke" wrote:
> Hakkinen? I think the next time we'll see any great racing from someone
> named Hakkinen is when the new born Hugo starts in F1 in 20 years.
LOL! I does my heart good to see him get stomped by Arrows! My
son, age 15, decided that the reason he didn't place well after that pass
was that he had to find a place to stop, throw his gloves and have a nice
little cry.
> Anyone figure out what Ferrari's contraption on the brakes is? Best I can
> figure (sorry Rory if I guess right) is that the devise houses an impeller,
> driven by the air incoming from the brake duct. The impeller then acts to
> cool the brakes more efficiently by blowing the air onto them, or by sucking
> the hot air and brake dust away and shooting it out through a rear outlet
> (which is why we saw the tremendous amount of brake dust all over the
> sidepods of the Ferraris at Australia).
Interesting! Brake turbo! Matchet commented that Rory has been working
on a device like that for YEARS and even tried it at Benneton but with poor
results. Regardless of the way it is driven (turbine versus wheel coupling),
forced air cooling is WAY cool. Imagine if you could use a smaller duct,
as they do, that is some way closed when the brakes are NOT in use then
opened as the brakes are applied allowing the pump to flood the disk with
cool air. Even if the duct ISN'T closed, it is small, less than HALF the size
of the inlet on the McLaren.
> To me the race was okay, qualifying (well the last 15 minutes that
> Speedvision actually had a feed!) was much more exciting for me.
I always enjoy qualifying almost as much as the race.
> Rueben's
> charge from 18th to win last year at Hokkenhiem was the better race to me.
> And I think Ruebens needs to stop hanging around Jacques in the off season
> ;-) somewhere he has picked up too much aggression, he is even pulling an
> Eddie Irvine and making comments about his M.Schumacher's driving. What
> else?
LOL!
> Oh yes, Ron Dennis needs to shut his arse up and accept he has a
> second rate car right now.
I haven't read anything post race. Is old Ronnie crying that everybody
cheats except him and that Ferrari doesn't play fair -- again?
> Eddie Irvine needs to accept that he's nearly
> finished his F1 career.
He is, as we say, a loose cannon. Pretty dangerous guy.
> Kai
It also appears that the MG list has exactly three F1 fans, you
Jim and me. :-]
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