G forces across the decades

[alelanza]

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[Belatti]

Are there no measures from 50s and 60s decades? Or even calculations taking into account cornering speeds like X did?

In 1977 acording to a Milliken graph at Paul Ricard the cars could get 2.2Gs and that was just right before the Lotus 79... thats the older data I could get.

[Pandamasque]

When cornering speeds has gone up enormously since the 50s, even Fangio would have had problems with an F1 car of today.

For starters, getting in would be tough.

[beelsebob]

Surely the analogy with a roller coaster is the point.
If the fitness needed to survive high g forces for around two hours is the main requirement of an F1 driver, then how much of the old skills has been lost and replaced by technical tricks within the huge raft of regulations designed to layer the illusion.
In other words, how different is driving an F1 car now, from spending time on a good roller coaster and then racing in virtual reality in simulators?
Would save a lot of money.

I think you can probably get the answer to that by lying you on your back in a box in which you can barely see the ground 20m away, shaking your around, putting you under such high G forces that you can't breath, and then asking you to time pushing a lever so accurately that you can stop from 200mph and hit a 1 square foot area. Seriously, to compare driving an F1 car to simply sitting in a rollercoaster is just rediculous.

[Just_a_fan]

Auto is an older guy who thinks that everything was better "back in the day". One only has to watch in-car footage of the current grid racing each other in their "roller coaster simulators" to know that the focus has changed from the 50s/60s but the basic skill required to race is the same.

Modern machines place different requirements on the drivers but they are not easy things to drive quickly, let alone race for 2 hours in 30+degC / 90+% humidity. Some people don't seem to want to accept this...