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  1. artn

    artn Karting

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    #1 artn, Sep 20, 2004
    Hi folks:

    Just out of curiosity, how slow is the slowest corner in F-1?

    I thought I recalled announcers mention some corners as being slow as <25mph range. Since most tracks are pretty wide, I can't imagine a high performance street car not being able to negotiate any corner in F-1 at atleast 15 mph or so (purely conjecture).

    So are there some corners where the speed differential between a current F-1 car and a good street car is no greater than 10 mph? (fully realizing that those extra mph are pretty hard to come by in some corners, as well as other factors such as setting up for corners before and after.)
     
  2. daz355

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    #2 daz355, Sep 20, 2004
    Loewes corner at Monaco is the slowest so I am led to believe.
    Daz
     
  3. kizdan

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    #3 kizdan, Sep 20, 2004
    Queen's Hairpin in Montreal is pretty slow as well.
     
  4. artn

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    #4 artn, Sep 20, 2004
    Thanks for the respones, guys!

    So, do you know how fast (or rather, how slow) they are going?
     
  5. amenasce

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    #5 amenasce, Sep 20, 2004
    I think its SPA's La source corner ..or the Grand Hotel corner @ Monaco
     
  6. speedy_sam

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    #6 speedy_sam, Sep 20, 2004
    Lowes ... its something like 20mph or slower
     
  7. JSinNOLA

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    #7 JSinNOLA, Sep 20, 2004
    Its not very surprising since the cars are not making ANY downforce at those slow speeds...in fact, even a small go-kart could be faster through a hairpin:)
     
  8. LopeAlong

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    #8 LopeAlong, Sep 20, 2004
    What about that dumba$$ switchback at Indy? Talk about a missed opportunity for what could have been a cool track....
    Jim
     
  9. andybm3

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    #9 andybm3, Sep 20, 2004
    Loews corner at Monaco
     
  10. GTB4NART

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    #10 GTB4NART, Sep 20, 2004
    Monaco has the two slowest - Lowes and Rascasse, both around 20 mph.
     
  11. PSk

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    #11 PSk, Sep 20, 2004
    Exiting the pit garage for a practise run ... ;) :D

    Pete
     
  12. millerphatty

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    #12 millerphatty, Sep 21, 2004
    Eau Rouge if you are in a Jaguar!!
    What was Ford thinking?
     
  13. tuttebenne

    tuttebenne F1 Rookie

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    #13 tuttebenne, Sep 21, 2004
    Interestingly, at the Hairpin at Montreal for example the "heavily modified" Mercedes pace car is going through the corner Ba!!s out, on the brink of disaster, while the F1 cars are right behind it on a slow cruise.
     
  14. ddn

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    #14 ddn, Sep 22, 2004
    Loews at Monaco. Uber tight radius. Montreal's hairpin is slow, but not THAT slow. Taken on the outside, the Montreal hairpin can be taken fairly quickly (relatively anyway). Loews is an absolute standstill.
     
  15. Ashman

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    #15 Ashman, Sep 22, 2004
    The Loew's hairpin at Monaco is so slow and so tight that the teams have to modify the front steering of the cars (for that race only) so that they have increased lock in order to negotiate the small radius.

    John
     
  16. speed130

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    #16 speed130, Sep 23, 2004
    The Mclaren's turn into the garage after an engine failure is pretty slow too.
     
  17. paulie_b

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    #17 paulie_b, Sep 23, 2004
    I say Monaco also.
     
  18. PSk

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    #18 PSk, Sep 23, 2004
    The slower the corner the less advantage a F1 car will have over another type of car. This is because aerodyamic stuff only works at speed, thus the wings, etc. are totally ineffective in a really slow corner. This means that the tyres are unloaded and thus the car is really working just as good as any other car with that much rubber.

    Pete
     
  19. mal

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    #19 mal, Oct 6, 2004
    Remember if the difference between 15 MPH and 25mph is 66% so on that basis a corner a road car could take at 100mph and F1 car would take at 166mph - that cant be too far from the truth.

    Also the hairpin at Shanghai looked pretty slow to me.
     

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