[Chris Medland] Newey confirms Aston Martin is likely to limit race laps due to severity of vibrations in the car impacting the drivers.

Alonso says he can do no more than 25 consecutive laps before risking nerve damage, Stroll says 15 laps

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Race engineers after the chequered flag: "Ok mate, good job, don't forget to pick up rubber on your way back"

AM race engineers after lap 10: "Ok mate, that's all we can do, don't forget to pick up your wing mirrors, front wing, rear wing, engine covers, floor, fire extinguisher, T cam and barge boards"

CMLVI@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 161d

Cadi gets to beat at least 1 team on their debut! Let's gooooo

Microw@piefed.zip · 9 pts · 161d (6 replies)

So Honda's power unit is causing vibrations that both break the battery units, and massively hurt the driver's fingers and hands.

And that with Stroll's medical history of his wrists that surely won't thank him for holding onto the wheel.

naeap@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 161d (5 replies)

Are those vibrations really coming from the PU or from the nearly untested everything else on the car?

Haven't read anything specific...

Microw@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 161d (4 replies)

Medland claims it's from the engine, not sure what his sources are for that

naeap@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 160d (3 replies)

Uff...
That would be really hard, because not much change during the season.
What can they even do about it?

Isn't the engine design pretty much locked in now?

History repeating itself just to fuck Alonso over must hurt

Microw@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 160d (2 replies)

I believe that under the new regulations they are free to change basically whatever they want about the engine at any point. As long as they dont use too many individual engines as per allocation.

But yeah, logistics wise this would be very hard to change in their design, manufacture and ship it in any kind of short-time future

naeap@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 160d (1 reply)

Really?

I thought that's locked in now
Like Mercedes e.g. can't even be forced to change until mid season, if their engine isn't up to the now new regs - regarding the compression tests

But to be honest, I've no clue, so gonna trust you and thanks for the information about that

Microw@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 159d

They've already decided the compression tests will change from June, so Merc will have to make sure tĥeir engine fits the regulations at that point

FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online · 8 pts · 161d

Wow. Actually insane.

Nighed@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 161d

.....how did they not pick up this issue when running them on the test harnesses back at the factory!?!

pHr34kY@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 161d

Wow. The Albert Park circuit is dead smooth to drive on. I'm guessing that the powerhouses are welded together in a way that makes is as smooth as falling down a flight of stairs on crutches (as Clarkson would say).