Re: the cars slide a lot more

I'm guessing that as there's less thrust off the corner the optimum
angle for thrusting through the car will be higher. It would simply be
a case of less force, more angle. Do it with a thousand horses at the
same angle and you'd be round on the spot. It may otherwise be the
engine weight and cg regulations increasing the polar moment of inertia
too of course. "A lot more" suggest it would be the two together.

It must be mentioned that Alain Prost claimed the turbos (which got
somewhere towards last year's in race power, if not slightly further)
were too powerful from a skill POV as you'd never get the power right
with turning and had to wait for a straight line to really let
everything go, doing as much to stop the next Ronnie Peterson as TC.
With TC you might have done but that was the TC, and I doubt they did
last year anyway.

It's for the same reason they can't back the cars in like the bikes (or
Alan Jones as Patrick Head has gone on about) - at 5.5g that angle is
unattainable other than for a split second on your way to 180 or
further.

The Senna difference to Dumfries was about proper 1 car teams and pay
drivers, not turbos. The difference on occasion to Berger was something
else altogother (see my "motor racing and mind" post a while back.) His
normal difference wasn't much more than Schumacher's before the narrow
track rules upset everything. (Schumacher claimed that with *these
cars* - narrow track - it was possible only with TC to get the most
from them. That's a simple wheel base/track situation, nothing else, as
the solution only Newey and then everyone came up with was to lengthen
the wheel-base to compensate). The main thing for real skill is corner
to corner weight transfer, much higher on a racing car and getting it
right made more difference in 2m wide cars with shorter wheelbases.

Anyway, it's all step in the right direction. They won't be much more
if any that 1 second a lap slower and that won't be round the corners.

.

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