Comments on: F1 engines to be used in sports car racing in 2014? http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/f1-engines-to-be-used-in-sports-car-racing-in-2014/ The real stories from inside the F1 paddock Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:14:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: John (other John) http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/f1-engines-to-be-used-in-sports-car-racing-in-2014/#comment-100374 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 23:27:46 +0000 http://joesaward.wordpress.com/?p=9944#comment-100374 Ahh, well, you can put a pretty good SSD into a laptop, thousands of times for some things (databases) faster than a bit of what used to be called “spinning rust”. The bigger ones allow you to array two or more drives (see the top HP ones, which even have readable screens for semi- fogeys). So if one drive can take 500MB/s, possibly a multiple, and do 500 or more times the IOPS, well that’s close to what “big iron” did a few years ago.

My bud and I are in the market for some new kit. So we heard of this new Unisys (Burroughs Adding Machines + Sperry) box which can deal up 6 Terabytes of RAM to one OS image, and we wet our pants. Twice. Second time when we heard they want close to 8 grand per memory DIMM and you need 200 of those . . but we looked it up, and one firm of about no guys at all, takes down 4 Billion USD in revenue with just four of those, and is quoted on the HKSE. Obviously, we are not that league, but puts Bernie in his place, some 20 something punks with 4 expensive computers get a public quote, and BE does not . .

just said all that because we have been tripping out all week, thought to share!

Oh, and I think it was Andrew who took me to task about getting the multiples wrong on disk drives. I dissented, but think about this, big vendors ask 8 grand for a chip I can buy retail for 500 bucks . . Please Lord, may age and cynicism win over youth and beauty, just once!

Err, F1 again. Is the software totally checksummed as standard on those ECU’s?

Also, hey, I can write a closed system, let it talk to another system (APIs) and well, my sealed system will start to do as bidden . . .

]]> By: rpaco http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/f1-engines-to-be-used-in-sports-car-racing-in-2014/#comment-100070 Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:10:26 +0000 http://joesaward.wordpress.com/?p=9944#comment-100070 The thing that intrigues me about the Tech regs here is that the teams must buffer the whole race telemetry from all channels and this must be available for the FIA to dump onto a laptop. Well that must be some laptop!
The ECU is a standard issue made by McLaren it is sealed by the FIA.

]]> By: Sam Laird http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/f1-engines-to-be-used-in-sports-car-racing-in-2014/#comment-100033 Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:48:26 +0000 http://joesaward.wordpress.com/?p=9944#comment-100033 Not quite on-topic, but the £10,000 prize for the first 100mph lap of the Isle of Man TT course by a zero-emissions bike has been won:

http://www.iomtt.com/News/2012/06/06/History-is-made-in-the-2012-SES-TT-Zero.aspx

All the top three achieved lap speeds over 100mph; when the race first started in 2009, only one bike broke 80mph.

]]> By: MistralMike http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/f1-engines-to-be-used-in-sports-car-racing-in-2014/#comment-100017 Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:52:01 +0000 http://joesaward.wordpress.com/?p=9944#comment-100017 First, computer generated image of the PURE V6 is online:

http://www.auto123.com/en/racing-news/f1-image-of-the-new-pure-v-6-turbo-engine?artid=144284&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=F1&utm_source=twitter.com

]]> By: John C. http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/f1-engines-to-be-used-in-sports-car-racing-in-2014/#comment-99954 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:04:15 +0000 http://joesaward.wordpress.com/?p=9944#comment-99954 Seconded, that was very enlightening JV, thanks.

]]> By: RobbieMeister http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/f1-engines-to-be-used-in-sports-car-racing-in-2014/#comment-99908 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 06:41:23 +0000 http://joesaward.wordpress.com/?p=9944#comment-99908 True, and I realized that was probably the case. I was trying to make the point that the article, if read at face value, does not say that.

]]> By: frg1 http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/f1-engines-to-be-used-in-sports-car-racing-in-2014/#comment-99870 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:16:23 +0000 http://joesaward.wordpress.com/?p=9944#comment-99870 The same limit was reported by Autosport in March, and their source was a leaked FIA/ACO consultation document. Wasn’t mentioned though, that is it for all type of engines.

]]> By: Joe Saward http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/f1-engines-to-be-used-in-sports-car-racing-in-2014/#comment-99840 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 22:16:11 +0000 http://joesaward.wordpress.com/?p=9944#comment-99840 No, it is an either or equivalency formula.

]]> By: MistralMike http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/f1-engines-to-be-used-in-sports-car-racing-in-2014/#comment-99834 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 19:43:25 +0000 http://joesaward.wordpress.com/?p=9944#comment-99834 Weren´t there some unpleasant rumours last week about the V6 turbo engines to be delayed (or, as some suggested, even postponed) in F1, because the “smaller teams” should have complained about the bigger prices of the new engines? Obviously, Ecclestone doing his work again (as he did 30 years ago), embedded into the context of the CA trades going on at the moment, exploiting the smaller teams for his purposes because he knows the EC rules preventing him from intervening into technical issues. I only heard about Kaltenborn complaining, whereas Frank Williams was indifferent and Roos Brawn and Jean-Francois Caubet (of course) being strictly against a further delay. Does anybody know the latest regarding this struggle?

]]> By: Dale D http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/f1-engines-to-be-used-in-sports-car-racing-in-2014/#comment-99829 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:18:36 +0000 http://joesaward.wordpress.com/?p=9944#comment-99829 Because it was not illegal. Nor is it illegal now.

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