Not gonna lie: I’ve always thought drag racing was a massively pointless waste of resources and this further cements that opinion as I didn’t know they rebuilt the engine after each run.
That said, I did enjoy this video because the mechanics/pit crew are the real stars of the show and I’d totally watch a Discovery channel series about them.
who cares, it’s better than the engineers going to the military
I thought that too, but think about it but this way. These races are about pushing the limits of engineering.
No, if they wanted to push engineering, they would make them run multiple races, not rebuild @ $25,000 for a three second burst of noise and make a motor that can only last 540 revolutions.
But you can’t make one go as fast in one race if it has to run for more races. You’re talking about pushing engineering in a different direction
Hmmmm no
Scientihic research is about pushing the limits of engineering. This is just a very wasteful show
Lol, yeah. That’s how my friend tries to get me into Formula 1, and I can definitely see and respect it from that angle. I just can’t get past the resources wasted to make a spectacle out of it. I’m just a curmudgeon like that haha.
Those arguments go away with Formula-E but I just haven’t dove into it
Those arguments go away with Formula-E
But they don’t. Formula E is bullshit Greenwashing. Whatever these cars burn in a race weekend is a drop in the bucket compared to the vast waste of resources used to fly hundreds of tonnes of equipment and cars and people around the world. Formula E could be entirely in Europe with races a short distance apart.
The win would be the engineering knowledge gained from pushing an electric vehicle to it’s absolute limits, at least in theory.
Oh for sure. The whole fan infrastructure for f1 is fucked.
I’d definitely be interested in learning more about how all this works, it looks like this is a very carefully planned operation to get so much done in an hour.
I don’t really care about the race itself though.
That’s basically me. If someone dragged me to a race, I’d be trying to find a way to watch the pit crew in action cause I wouldn’t give a crap about the actual race haha.
My pop use to work for I think it was a freight shipping company, but the company took out a sponsorship for a team, for bravado points I imagine, and of course to schmooze with other people that like to waste money. We got tickets sometimes.
Anyways, what a gloriously ridiculous machine. It’s so stupid and so powerful, but that team looked like passionate experts living out their dreams. I’m happy for them. Looks like dwarves doing cool dwarf shit.
Also yea, waste of resources, does not seem like a feasible thing to be doing in a finite world.
Drag racing just isn’t a spectator sport at all. I’ve been to a few races, have no desire to go back.
Yup. Engines are only good for about 5 seconds. The spark plugs are only good for 2-3 seconds, after that they run on detonation.
the engines only turn 540 revolutions before being rebuilt.
There can’t possibly be enough money in this to use and throw away an engine after each run and employ all those people?
Did you see all the dust that came out of that clutch?
Did you see the size of the distributor‽
or the blower and bugcatcher. this thing has to be running metric tons of boost.
Wow. Thanks for sharing op.
