riff_raff wrote:Tommy Cookers wrote:NL_Fer wrote:Damn right. F1 increased fuel efficiency from 30% to almost 50% and it's drivable also. No roadcar manufacturer pulled this of in far more years. It is insane.
what is insane ?
the F1 car is a NOx generator
road cars have for the last 30 years been inefficient because NOx catalysis requires rich running and tightening NOx limits prevent much lean running
Think about how much NOx is produced by the turbofan engines of a cargo jet used to transport the tons of equipment and supplies needed by each F1 team for a race event on another continent. If NOx or CO2 emissions released into the atmosphere from an F1 race event are truly a concern, it would be far more effective for the FIA to implement regulations limiting the total emissions resulting from all of the team's activities.
The FIA has offset the carbon dioxide emissions since the late 1990s. Not sure if that includes teh transport emissions or just the racing activity emissions.
