F1 Quiz Chain

[marcush.]

Geoff Ferris and March 711 springs to my mind ...

[matt21]

- Max Sardou
- Renault RS01
- turbocharging and radial tyres

Seems a good idea to read books from time to time

[Sombrero]

http://www.sardou.net/index.html

Well done again matt21. Which book if I may ask ?

[marcush.]

=D> =D> =D>
shame on me I well remember the Renault test hack...

[xpensive]

I don't know when this should have happened or even who Max Sardou is, but Tony Rudd and Peter Wright worked on the concept at BRM already in the late sixties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_in_cars

[matt21]

March: The Rise and Fall of a Motor Racing Legend by Mike Lawrence.
There was Max Sardou mentioned.

By the way does anybody know a post about f1 related books in this forum?
I want to increase my libary.

Next question:
What happend during a test at Snetterton with the Lotus 78 when fitted with the queerbox?

[marcush.]

as far as i know the chief designer of RS01 was Andre de cortanze and also Jeanpierre Jaboille their driver was part of the design team ,a very unique situation ..having the cars designer actually drive the car in F1..and being competitive.
Yes Mclaren ,Brabham ,Purley Amon build their own cars yes but did they also pen it ? the one exception may have been John Surtees?

[Sombrero]

What happend during a test at Snetterton with the Lotus 78 when fitted with the queerbox?

You mean the day the Lotus crew tested the first launch control system without a pilot on-board ?

Insisting on a sequential shift box, Colin Chapman directed Tony Rudd and Brian Spooner to revive the “queerbox” as it was known when first used in the late 1950s on the Lotus 15 sports racer, as well as the Type 16 formula car. It was a tiny gearbox concept that, in theory at least, did not require use of the clutch to shift gears. It appeared briefly on the T78, that gave the drivers such a severe case of Tennis elbow - due to vibrations fed back through the lever during attempted shifts - that it was abandoned so as not to compromise the new car.

Chapman tested allready something similar with the T76. The clutch pedal was retained, but only used for starting. Thereafter, gearshifts were performed using a button on the gearlever to activate the clutch via an Electro-Hydraulic actuation system.

A final attempt was made with the Lotus T79. The Lotus/Getrag gearbox proved troublesome, and was replaced by mid-season with the more conventional Hewland FG400.

[matt21]

You mean the day the Lotus crew tested the first launch control system without a pilot on-board ?

Can you explain?

[Sombrero]

That day at Snetterton the gearbox selected a gear by itself while the engine was being warmed up. The car wandered off across the paddock, chased by the mechanics.

[matt21]

Your turn! =D>

[Sombrero]

There is a nice past quizz about the W12 of the Life F-1 Team posted by WhiteBlue



Now, if you cut that engine in 4 I mean W12 : 4 = W3 what is that ?

Yes, that W3 was built for F-1 purpose long ago.

[matt21]

The designer of the W12, Franco Rocchi, built a 500cc-W3 in the 60´s for validation purpose.

[Sombrero]

Man, that was so fast... Almost like Usain Bolt !

You are right : In 1967, Scuderia Ferrari engineer Franco Rocchi built an experimental 65×50mm, 498 cc W3 engine, effectively a single crankpin module, in order to assess the potential for a 3-litre W18 Formula 1 engine. Although the engine developed 80 bhp at 11,000 rpm and 160 bhp per litre, the idea was abandoned. Subsequently in 1972 Formula 1 rules were changed to outlaw the use of engines with more than 12 cylinders. Rocchi used this module as the basis for a 3½ litre W12 engine for Life Racing Engines in 1988, although this was infamously unsuccessful.

Here we can see a 1943 W18 Tatra T955 aircooled engine in its full glory.



Well done again matt21.

[matt21]

What was for the last time when Schumacher had his first time win?