Zandvoort corner banking to be twice as steep as Indianapolis

I guess you missed my posting of the link to that article/photo in 116 last Thursday.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/zandvoort-completed-banking-first-images/4697839/?utm_source=Motorsport&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2020-02-27&utm_content=insider_edition

 

A perfect example of a mistake in design (to the minimal spec for performance, of course) was Chapman's super fast '64 that Andretti was supposed to have used in '69. Albeit not the tires, but a design flaw, nonetheless.

" “We didn’t like the car,” said McGee, Brawner’s protege, who would be with Andretti for 17 of his 29 years in Indy cars. “We tested it at Hanford and went back to England, and they had to make about 200 changes. … It had all kinds of problems. Heating and stuff like that. It was not proven. It hadn’t run a race.

“We had no faith in that car at all. We knew it was fast, but we knew it would never finish. It had no miles on it. If you wanted to win Indy, you don’t come here with a car with zero miles on it.”

McGee and Brawner’s doubts would prove warranted. Though Andretti dominated the speed charts in the Lotus during practice, two days before time trials, he suffered a horrific crash in Turn 4.

As the bright red No. 2 STP car slammed in the wall, it burst into flames, pieces of it scattering across the track.

It was just as McGee and Brawner had suspected all along.

“We had questioned the running gear, the hubs and stuff on it,” McGee said. “Colin Chapman, to save time and money, used Formula One hubs and uprights and stuff. And we asked him about it with the loads at Indianapolis and everything like that, and he convinced us it would be OK. But we were skeptical. … Of course, it was the hub that broke during practice.” "

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/motor/indy-500/2019/05/16/1969-indy-500-saga-mario-andrettis-unlikely-indy-500-victory/1168121001/

Pirelli does not want a repeat of one of these mistakes, so they're doing their homework.